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Amy Berg and Nicole Holofcener take on the paperback thrills of Every Secret Thing
By Adam Nayman May 14, 2015 | 5:00am
Pitch Perfect 2 is an encore, a postscript, and a fresh start all at once
By Jesse Hassenger May 14, 2015 | 5:00am
Blythe Danner transcends the indie mediocrity of I’ll See You In My Dreams
By Keith Uhlich May 14, 2015 | 5:00am
With Fury Road , Mad Max roars triumphantly back into theaters
By A.A. Dowd May 13, 2015 | 7:53pm
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window... is as wacky as its title
By Mike D'Angelo May 7, 2015 | 3:00pm
Dolph Lundgren and Tony Jaa take on sex traffickers in Skin Trade
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 7, 2015 | 2:00pm
A Noble biopic could have used the pop fizz of Danny Boyle
By Jesse Hassenger May 7, 2015 | 1:00pm
5 Flights Up is really several movies, a couple of them quite charming
By Mike D'Angelo May 7, 2015 | 5:00am
Saint Laurent is an imperfect but often poetic take on the life of a fashion mogul
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 7, 2015 | 5:00am
Maggie is not what anyone would expect from a Schwarzenegger zombie movie
By A.A. Dowd May 7, 2015 | 5:00am
The D Train is a much bolder Jack Black comedy than its trailer lets on
By Mike D'Angelo May 7, 2015 | 5:00am
The restored Apu Trilogy reintroduces Satyajit Ray
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 7, 2015 | 5:00am
There’s a little too much Scorsese in the bad-cop documentary The Seven Five
By Keith Uhlich May 7, 2015 | 5:00am
Sofia Vergara and Reese Witherspoon can’t heat up the tepid Hot Pursuit
By Katie Rife May 7, 2015 | 5:00am
Journey To The West could be the last time Tsai Ming-Liang slows life to a crawl
By A.A. Dowd May 5, 2015 | 5:00am
The Caroll Spinney story is told sweetly but not inventively by I Am Big Bird
By Jesse Hassenger May 5, 2015 | 5:00am
Daydreams become nightmares in Quentin Dupieux’s Reality
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 30, 2015 | 5:00am
U.K. crime drama Hyena is uncompromising in its brutality, but to what end?
By Mike D'Angelo April 30, 2015 | 5:00am
Viggo Mortensen takes another long, mythic walk in Far From Men
By Adam Nayman April 30, 2015 | 5:00am
Helen Hunt writes and directs herself into a corner with Ride
By Jesse Hassenger April 30, 2015 | 5:00am
Kristen Wiig puts SNL weirdness in a serious context with Welcome To Me
By Mike D'Angelo April 30, 2015 | 5:00am
Carey Mulligan stars in a book report on Far From The Madding Crowd
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 30, 2015 | 5:00am
Jean-Pierre Melville hit the ground running with a moving debut, Le Silence De La Mer
By Mike D'Angelo April 29, 2015 | 5:00am
Joss Whedon grapples with the franchise obligations of Avengers: Age Of Ultron
By A.A. Dowd April 28, 2015 | 7:14pm
Fashion-focused Iris is a modest late effort from documentary legend Albert Maysles
By Vadim Rizov April 28, 2015 | 5:00am
John Travolta mumbles his way through the inert thriller The Forger
By Mike D'Angelo April 23, 2015 | 5:00pm
Little Boy is a shockingly miscalculated World War II fable
By A.A. Dowd April 23, 2015 | 5:00am
Nick Kroll softens his elastic shtick for the fatally mild Adult Beginners
By A.A. Dowd April 23, 2015 | 5:00am
Misery Loves Comedy asks whether the two things are always linked
By Josh Modell April 23, 2015 | 5:00am
Kung Fu Killer is a wildly entertaining slice of Hong Kong action
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 23, 2015 | 5:00am
The Water Diviner is a chintzy historical epic from director-star Russell Crowe
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 23, 2015 | 5:00am
There are no Liam Neeson heroics in the fact-based hostage drama 24 Days
By Adam Nayman April 23, 2015 | 5:00am
The Age Of Adaline plays like an adaptation of a book that never existed
By Jesse Hassenger April 23, 2015 | 5:00am
Jean Renoir’s color masterpiece The River comes to Blu-ray
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 22, 2015 | 5:00am
Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten hauntingly remembers a lost era of Cambodian rock
By Jason Heller April 21, 2015 | 5:00am
The Stalinist serial-killer flick Child 44 strains for seriousness
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 17, 2015 | 6:34pm
Even with a few extra laughs, Paul Blart still can’t save the day
By Jesse Hassenger April 17, 2015 | 4:21pm
Unfriended ingeniously commits to its laptop horror gimmick
By A.A. Dowd April 16, 2015 | 4:58pm
The Man With The Iron Fists gets a tedious direct-to-video sequel
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 16, 2015 | 2:00pm
The Dead Lands views a rarely explored culture through a dusty narrative lens
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 16, 2015 | 5:00am
The Reconstruction Of William Zero is kind of a poor man’s Upstream Color
By Keith Uhlich April 16, 2015 | 5:00am
James Franco and Jonah Hill get serious for the true crime of True Story
By A.A. Dowd April 16, 2015 | 5:00am
The Oscar-nominated Tangerines is more interesting before the bullets start flying
By Adam Nayman April 16, 2015 | 5:00am
Chris Messina moves into directing with the unexceptional Alex Of Venice
By Mike D'Angelo April 16, 2015 | 5:00am
In Félix & Meira , the star of Fill The Void tackles Orthodox tradition again
By Mike D'Angelo April 16, 2015 | 5:00am
The Monsters sequel is a clichéd macho fantasy disguised as a monster movie
By Katie Rife April 16, 2015 | 5:00am
Carol Reed’s coded IRA drama Odd Man Out has the look but not the feel of noir
By Mike D'Angelo April 15, 2015 | 5:00am
Real soldiers reenact the horrors of Vietnam in the documentary In Country
By Adam Nayman April 9, 2015 | 5:00pm
A Bollywood veteran makes an awkward American debut with Broken Horses
By Mike D'Angelo April 9, 2015 | 4:00pm
Black Souls is a familiar but effective addition to the Italian Mafia genre
By Adam Nayman April 9, 2015 | 3:00pm
Dior And I is an entertaining glimpse behind the curtain of a fashion empire
By Keith Uhlich April 9, 2015 | 2:00pm
Simon Pegg can’t bring humanity to the hit man nonsense of Kill Me Three Times
By Jesse Hassenger April 9, 2015 | 1:00pm
Rebels Of The Neon God both kicks off and summarizes the career of its director
By Mike D'Angelo April 9, 2015 | 5:00am
Ryan Gosling’s Lost River blurs the line between homage and theft
By A.A. Dowd April 9, 2015 | 5:00am
Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart shine in Olivier Assayas’ Clouds Of Sils Maria
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 9, 2015 | 5:00am
Ex Machina is smart sci-fi that loses its way
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 9, 2015 | 5:00am
Desert Dancer is an inspirational tale as bland and forgettable as its title
By Katie Rife April 9, 2015 | 5:00am
Nicholas Sparks takes one step forward, one step back with The Longest Ride
By Jesse Hassenger April 9, 2015 | 5:00am
Before A Separation , Asghar Farhadi made the superb seaside drama About Elly
By A.A. Dowd April 7, 2015 | 5:00am
If There Be Thorns and Seeds Of Yesterday try to catch that camp magic
By Genevieve Valentine April 3, 2015 | 5:00am
Clive Owen and Morgan Freeman are the Last Knights of this humorless slog
By Adam Nayman April 2, 2015 | 4:00pm
There’s a little Tarantino and a lot of Spike Lee in the mediocre The Girl Is In Trouble
By Keith Uhlich April 2, 2015 | 3:00pm
Dakota Fanning spends a lot of time looking sad in Effie Gray
By Jesse Hassenger April 2, 2015 | 2:00pm
5 To 7 is the prime time for romance, says this love story fit for primetime
By Mike D'Angelo April 2, 2015 | 1:00pm
Furious 7 says goodbye to Paul Walker with wall-to-wall action absurdity
By Jesse Hassenger April 2, 2015 | 5:00am
Bill Plympton disguises a long short as a short feature with Cheatin’
By Jesse Hassenger April 2, 2015 | 5:00am
Ned Rifle concludes the odd trilogy Hal Hartley began with Henry Fool
By Mike D'Angelo April 2, 2015 | 5:00am
Lambert & Stamp is a glossy, spotty piece of rock history
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 2, 2015 | 5:00am
Two teens reach for their Hoop Dreams in this nonfiction masterpiece
By A.A. Dowd April 1, 2015 | 5:00am
Woman In Gold gives a complicated true story the Weinstein treatment
By A.A. Dowd March 31, 2015 | 5:00am
Scientology doc Going Clear eviscerates the faithful, famous, and greedy
By Joshua Alston March 27, 2015 | 5:00am
Leighton Meester helps sell the overwritten Like Sunday, Like Rain
By Jesse Hassenger March 26, 2015 | 3:00pm
Man From Reno is a fine addition to the San Francisco thriller canon
By Adam Nayman March 26, 2015 | 2:00pm
Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper reunite for the misjudged Serena
By Vadim Rizov March 26, 2015 | 5:00am
DreamWorks warps an offbeat kids’ book into the typically generic Home
By Jesse Hassenger March 26, 2015 | 5:00am
Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart rush and bluff their way through Get Hard
By Jesse Hassenger March 26, 2015 | 5:00am
White God is a mongrel of a dog movie, madly mixing genres and tones
By A.A. Dowd March 26, 2015 | 5:00am
With The Salt Of The Earth , Wim Wenders takes a snapshot of a famous shutterbug
By Keith Uhlich March 26, 2015 | 5:00am
The Riot Club offers nothing but the antics of rich young assholes
By Mike D'Angelo March 26, 2015 | 5:00am
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
Abel Ferrara envisions hell as a sex scandal in Welcome To New York
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 26, 2015 | 5:00am
While We’re Young is essentially Noah Baumbach’s Neighbors
By A.A. Dowd March 26, 2015 | 5:00am
Three early films from Errol Morris reveal how he reshaped documentary
By Mike D'Angelo March 25, 2015 | 5:00am
All of Rowan Atkinson’s bits are on display in Mr. Bean: The Whole Bean
By Jennifer Wood March 24, 2015 | 6:50pm
The Kidnapping Of Michel Houellebecq is a fans- (and critics-) only meta-comedy
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 24, 2015 | 5:00am
From the writers of God’s Not Dead comes the ludicrous soap opera Do You Believe?
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 20, 2015 | 6:59pm
Eugène Green’s La Sapienza is art history with warmth and personality
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 20, 2015 | 5:00am
Sex surrogacy drama She’s Lost Control keeps its cards close
By Kiva Reardon March 19, 2015 | 3:00pm
Growing Up And Other Lies is a tired trek across Manhattan and through clichés
By Mike D'Angelo March 19, 2015 | 2:00pm
Backcountry is a wilderness thriller weakened by its human elements
By Katie Rife March 19, 2015 | 1:00pm
Sean Penn bulks up for The Gunman , a misfire from the director of Taken
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 19, 2015 | 5:00am
Viggo Mortensen loses himself in the droll, mysterious Jauja
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 19, 2015 | 5:00am
The Divergent sequel could use more style and less fidelity
By Jesse Hassenger March 19, 2015 | 5:00am
Tracers is reasonably fun… for a Taylor Lautner parkour movie
By Jesse Hassenger March 19, 2015 | 5:00am
The unclassifiable Spring makes moon eyes with monsters
By A.A. Dowd March 19, 2015 | 5:00am
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
Ride The Pink Horse hints at the great director Robert Montgomery might have become
By Mike D'Angelo March 18, 2015 | 5:00am
Kumiko The Treasure Hunter dramatizes an urban legend of Fargo fandom
By Mike D'Angelo March 17, 2015 | 5:00am
Amour Fou finds dry comedy in a famous double suicide
By A.A. Dowd March 17, 2015 | 5:00am
Champs follows three big-name boxers from poverty to the top (and back)
By Josh Modell March 12, 2015 | 5:00pm
Ghosts, religion, and quirky mental illness blend poorly in Walter
By Jesse Hassenger March 12, 2015 | 4:00pm
There’s maybe a single laugh in the wretched entirety of Home Sweet Hell
By Mike D'Angelo March 12, 2015 | 3:00pm
The Wrecking Crew is a brisk, undramatic portrait of unsung musical legends
By Jason Heller March 12, 2015 | 2:00pm
3 Hearts never pumps enough lifeblood into its contrived love triangle
By Kiva Reardon March 12, 2015 | 1:00pm
Liam Neeson rips up New York City in Run All Night
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 12, 2015 | 5:00am
The thrilling Cymbeline re-teams Ethan Hawke and William Shakespeare
By Keith Uhlich March 12, 2015 | 5:00am
Despite its respected director, The Cobbler offers more noxious, lowbrow Adam Sandler
By A.A. Dowd March 12, 2015 | 5:00am
Disney’s live-action Cinderella is pretty but empty
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 12, 2015 | 5:00am