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Woman In Gold gives a complicated true story the Weinstein treatment
By A.A. Dowd March 31, 2015 | 5:00am
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Scientology doc Going Clear eviscerates the faithful, famous, and greedy
By Joshua Alston March 27, 2015 | 5:00am
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Leighton Meester helps sell the overwritten Like Sunday, Like Rain
By Jesse Hassenger March 26, 2015 | 3:00pm
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Man From Reno is a fine addition to the San Francisco thriller canon
By Adam Nayman March 26, 2015 | 2:00pm
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Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper reunite for the misjudged Serena
By Vadim Rizov March 26, 2015 | 5:00am
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DreamWorks warps an offbeat kids’ book into the typically generic Home
By Jesse Hassenger March 26, 2015 | 5:00am
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Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart rush and bluff their way through Get Hard
By Jesse Hassenger March 26, 2015 | 5:00am
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White God is a mongrel of a dog movie, madly mixing genres and tones
By A.A. Dowd March 26, 2015 | 5:00am
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With The Salt Of The Earth, Wim Wenders takes a snapshot of a famous shutterbug
By Keith Uhlich March 26, 2015 | 5:00am
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The Riot Club offers nothing but the antics of rich young assholes
By Mike D'Angelo March 26, 2015 | 5:00am
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More so even than Larry Clark’s other movies, Marfa Girl just feels like bad porn
By Mike D'Angelo March 26, 2015 | 5:00am
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Abel Ferrara envisions hell as a sex scandal in Welcome To New York
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 26, 2015 | 5:00am
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While We’re Young is essentially Noah Baumbach’s Neighbors
By A.A. Dowd March 26, 2015 | 5:00am
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Three early films from Errol Morris reveal how he reshaped documentary
By Mike D'Angelo March 25, 2015 | 5:00am
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All of Rowan Atkinson’s bits are on display in Mr. Bean: The Whole Bean
By Jennifer Wood March 24, 2015 | 6:50pm
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The Kidnapping Of Michel Houellebecq is a fans- (and critics-) only meta-comedy
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 24, 2015 | 5:00am
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From the writers of God’s Not Dead comes the ludicrous soap opera Do You Believe?
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 20, 2015 | 6:59pm
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Eugène Green’s La Sapienza is art history with warmth and personality
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 20, 2015 | 5:00am
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Sex surrogacy drama She’s Lost Control keeps its cards close
By Kiva Reardon March 19, 2015 | 3:00pm
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Growing Up And Other Lies is a tired trek across Manhattan and through clichés
By Mike D'Angelo March 19, 2015 | 2:00pm
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Backcountry is a wilderness thriller weakened by its human elements
By Katie Rife March 19, 2015 | 1:00pm
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Sean Penn bulks up for The Gunman, a misfire from the director of Taken
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 19, 2015 | 5:00am
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Viggo Mortensen loses himself in the droll, mysterious Jauja
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 19, 2015 | 5:00am
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The Divergent sequel could use more style and less fidelity
By Jesse Hassenger March 19, 2015 | 5:00am
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Tracers is reasonably fun… for a Taylor Lautner parkour movie
By Jesse Hassenger March 19, 2015 | 5:00am
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The unclassifiable Spring makes moon eyes with monsters
By A.A. Dowd March 19, 2015 | 5:00am
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As the aging pop star of Danny Collins, Al Pacino is better than he’s been in years
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 19, 2015 | 5:00am
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Ride The Pink Horse hints at the great director Robert Montgomery might have become
By Mike D'Angelo March 18, 2015 | 5:00am
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Kumiko The Treasure Hunter dramatizes an urban legend of Fargo fandom
By Mike D'Angelo March 17, 2015 | 5:00am
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Amour Fou finds dry comedy in a famous double suicide
By A.A. Dowd March 17, 2015 | 5:00am
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Champs follows three big-name boxers from poverty to the top (and back)
By Josh Modell March 12, 2015 | 5:00pm
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Ghosts, religion, and quirky mental illness blend poorly in Walter
By Jesse Hassenger March 12, 2015 | 4:00pm
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There’s maybe a single laugh in the wretched entirety of Home Sweet Hell
By Mike D'Angelo March 12, 2015 | 3:00pm
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The Wrecking Crew is a brisk, undramatic portrait of unsung musical legends
By Jason Heller March 12, 2015 | 2:00pm
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3 Hearts never pumps enough lifeblood into its contrived love triangle
By Kiva Reardon March 12, 2015 | 1:00pm
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Liam Neeson rips up New York City in Run All Night
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 12, 2015 | 5:00am
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The thrilling Cymbeline re-teams Ethan Hawke and William Shakespeare
By Keith Uhlich March 12, 2015 | 5:00am
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Despite its respected director, The Cobbler offers more noxious, lowbrow Adam Sandler
By A.A. Dowd March 12, 2015 | 5:00am
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Disney’s live-action Cinderella is pretty but empty
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 12, 2015 | 5:00am
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It Follows is a new classic of both horror and coming-of-age cinema
By A.A. Dowd March 12, 2015 | 5:00am
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Ethan Hawke pays tribute to a great teacher in Seymour: An Introduction
By Mike D'Angelo March 12, 2015 | 5:00am
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In style but not story, The Soft Skin is Truffaut going Hitchcock
By Mike D'Angelo March 11, 2015 | 5:00am
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Chappie suggests that District 9 director Neill Blomkamp could use a hard reset
By A.A. Dowd March 5, 2015 | 8:12pm
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Lost Soul swaps war stories from 1996’s troubled flop The Island Of Dr. Moreau
By Alex McLevy March 5, 2015 | 6:00pm
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The end times are a good time for boring nobility in These Final Hours
By Vadim Rizov March 5, 2015 | 5:00pm
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Kidnapping Mr. Heineken is as lousy as its lager namesake
By Keith Uhlich March 5, 2015 | 4:00pm
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New York romance X/Y is both terrible and terrific, depending on the scene
By Mike D'Angelo March 5, 2015 | 3:00pm
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Vince Vaughn goes soft again in the faux-raunchy Unfinished Business
By Jesse Hassenger March 5, 2015 | 2:51pm
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Faults slowly, skillfully transforms from one kind of movie to another
By Mike D'Angelo March 5, 2015 | 2:00pm
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A small-time swindler loses his mind in the darkly funny Buzzard
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 5, 2015 | 6:00am
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Forest Whitaker is a parolee trying to start over in Two Men In Town
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 5, 2015 | 6:00am
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This is, indeed, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
By A.A. Dowd March 5, 2015 | 6:00am
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Merchants Of Doubt is an artless, toothless look at the expert-for-hire industry
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 5, 2015 | 6:00am
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Captive wasn’t the breakthrough many expected of its Pinoy director
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 4, 2015 | 6:00am
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The Lesson could use a lesson in dramatic restraint
By A.A. Dowd March 3, 2015 | 6:00am
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You won’t need 100 percent of your brain to dismiss The Lazarus Effect
By A.A. Dowd February 26, 2015 | 8:05pm
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My Life Directed By Nicolas Winding Refn is a familiar account of an unusual film
By Katie Rife February 26, 2015 | 4:00pm
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Bluebird bears an unflattering resemblance to a much better film
By Mike D'Angelo February 26, 2015 | 3:00pm
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Everly puts a scantily clad Salma Hayek on the warpath, but the fun is canned
By Vadim Rizov February 26, 2015 | 2:00pm
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Will Smith tries his hand at being Cary Grant in Focus
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 26, 2015 | 6:00am
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Mads Mikkelsen takes revenge in the West in The Salvation
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 26, 2015 | 6:00am
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David Cronenberg draws his Maps To The Stars in broad strokes
By A.A. Dowd February 26, 2015 | 6:00am
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The Hunting Ground takes a hard look at campus rape and colleges that condone it
By Jesse Hassenger February 26, 2015 | 6:00am
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’71 was a dangerous year to roam the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland
By Mike D'Angelo February 26, 2015 | 6:00am
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Fellini Satyricon is the Italian director at his most decadent and tedious
By Mike D'Angelo February 25, 2015 | 6:00am
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Dead bodies and screwball romance mix beautifully in Wild Canaries
By A.A. Dowd February 24, 2015 | 6:00am
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Hot Tub Time Machine 2 goes back to the Jacuzzi with diminishing returns
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 19, 2015 | 5:16pm
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The most memorable thing about The DUFF is its ugly-duckling heroine
By Katie Rife February 19, 2015 | 2:56pm
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An Oscar-nominated anthology offers 6 darkly comic Wild Tales
By A.A. Dowd February 19, 2015 | 6:00am
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Approaching The Elephant roams the chaotic halls of a free school
By A.A. Dowd February 19, 2015 | 6:00am
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Adam Green plays fast and loose with found footage in Digging Up The Marrow
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 19, 2015 | 6:00am
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There’s nothing remotely wild about the indie mope-fest All The Wilderness
By Mike D'Angelo February 19, 2015 | 6:00am
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Disney’s McFarland, USA is an inspirational sports movie that rarely inspires
By Jesse Hassenger February 19, 2015 | 6:00am
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Ozu ended his career on a typically melancholy note with An Autumn Afternoon
By Mike D'Angelo February 18, 2015 | 6:00am
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John Boorman’s Queen & Country doesn’t work as a sequel to his Hope And Glory
By Mike D'Angelo February 17, 2015 | 6:00am
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More ironic than erotic, Fifty Shades Of Grey at least improves on the book
By Katie Rife February 12, 2015 | 6:21pm
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Aussie zombie flick Wyrmwood is dead on arrival
By Kiva Reardon February 12, 2015 | 5:00pm
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The Israeli sequel Gett brings a failing marriage into the courtroom
By Keith Uhlich February 12, 2015 | 4:00pm
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The Rewrite recalls an ancient era of better Hugh Grant vehicles
By Jesse Hassenger February 12, 2015 | 3:00pm
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David Cross’ first feature, Hits, loses its charm when it gets on message
By Jesse Hassenger February 12, 2015 | 2:00pm
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Spike Lee’s Da Sweet Blood Of Jesus could use a transfusion of passion
By A.A. Dowd February 12, 2015 | 6:00am
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The Last Five Years provides Anna Kendrick the musical showcase she deserves
By Jesse Hassenger February 12, 2015 | 6:00am
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Vampires make for bad roomies in the Kiwi mock-doc What We Do In The Shadows
By Mike D'Angelo February 12, 2015 | 6:00am
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Kingsman is a slick, gory spy pastiche—just don’t think about it too hard
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 12, 2015 | 6:00am
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Old Fashioned bills itself as the Evangelical answer to Fifty Shades Of Grey
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 12, 2015 | 6:00am
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Jean Renoir’s “A Day In The Country” makes the case for “incomplete” art
By Mike D'Angelo February 11, 2015 | 6:00am
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David O. Russell disowned Accidental Love for good reason
By A.A. Dowd February 10, 2015 | 9:20pm
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Witch-hunter Jeff Bridges is the most interesting part of the mostly dull Seventh Son
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 5, 2015 | 8:57pm
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Ballet 422 captures the punishing hardship of putting on a show
By Keith Uhlich February 5, 2015 | 6:00am
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Love, Rosie is pregnant with dumb contrivances, even by rom-com standards
By Mike D'Angelo February 5, 2015 | 6:00am
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Lame EDM thriller Enter The Dangerous Mind has all the wrong moves
By Jesse Hassenger February 5, 2015 | 6:00am
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The Wachowskis go for broke with the goofy space opera Jupiter Ascending
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 5, 2015 | 6:00am
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Ryan Reynolds answers to The Voices in a schizophrenic horror comedy
By A.A. Dowd February 5, 2015 | 6:00am
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Sponge Out Of Water proves that SpongeBob should hit dry land more often
By Gwen Ihnat February 5, 2015 | 6:00am
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Jean-Luc Godard re-booted his career with Every Man For Himself
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 4, 2015 | 6:00am
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It would take a time machine to fix the problems with Project Almanac
By A.A. Dowd January 30, 2015 | 7:04pm
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Despite its racy premise, The Loft is too sloppy to be shocking
By Katie Rife January 30, 2015 | 6:00pm
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Black Or White proves that Mike Binder has no business making a race drama
By A.A. Dowd January 30, 2015 | 6:00am
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Amira & Sam’s cultural divide doesn’t liven up a clichéd genre piece
By Nick Schager January 29, 2015 | 6:00am
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Though shot in less than 12 years, Girlhood has its own insights about growing up
By Jesse Hassenger January 29, 2015 | 6:00am
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Alien Outpost is like Restrepo with aliens, which is much less cool than it sounds
By Keith Uhlich January 29, 2015 | 6:00am
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Hard To Be A God will take you to a world of shit
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 29, 2015 | 6:00am
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Timbuktu moves from wry comedy to deep horror
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 29, 2015 | 6:00am
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Jason Statham fills Burt Reynolds’ shoes in Wild Card
By Josh Modell January 29, 2015 | 6:00am
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Lucrecia Martel’s budding talent is on display in La Ciénaga
By Mike D'Angelo January 28, 2015 | 6:00am
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Those with a tolerance for Johnny Depp goofing around may actually dig Mortdecai
By Jesse Hassenger January 23, 2015 | 4:40pm
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Jude Law plunges headlong into the bleak waters of Black Sea
By A.A. Dowd January 22, 2015 | 6:00pm
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R100 is a comedy that plays without a safe word
By Katie Rife January 22, 2015 | 4:00pm
