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The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness looks behind the curtain of Studio Ghibli
By David Ehrlich November 25, 2014 | 6:00am
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Horrible Bosses 2 is less fun to watch than it probably was to make
By Jesse Hassenger November 25, 2014 | 6:00am
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Benedict Cumberbatch breaks code in the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game
By Mike D'Angelo November 25, 2014 | 6:00am
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From the duo behind Grave Encounters comes the thoroughly generic Extraterrestrial
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 20, 2014 | 6:00am
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As its clunky title suggests, Mockingjay—Part 1 is half a Hunger Games film
By A.A. Dowd November 20, 2014 | 6:00am
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The V/H/S franchise goes Viral—and down the tubes
By A.A. Dowd November 20, 2014 | 6:00am
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Practical effects can’t save the absurd-yet-boring Late Phases
By Katie Rife November 20, 2014 | 6:00am
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The Homestretch grants a voice to Chicago’s teenage derelicts
By Keith Uhlich November 20, 2014 | 6:00am
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The Circle explores gay history through the story of one famous couple
By Vadim Rizov November 20, 2014 | 6:00am
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Reach Me is more L.A. ensemble junk from the maker of 2 Days In The Valley
By Jesse Hassenger November 20, 2014 | 6:00am
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The vampire fantasy A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night is an interesting bore
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 20, 2014 | 6:00am
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Every romcom of the last 80 years owes something to It Happened One Night
By Mike D'Angelo November 19, 2014 | 6:00am
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Pulp is less a documentary and more a love letter to Sheffield
By Laura M. Browning November 18, 2014 | 6:10pm
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The coming-of-age story Bad Hair is all dispiriting realism, no catharsis
By Mike D'Angelo November 18, 2014 | 6:00am
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Happy Valley looks at the Penn State scandal through the lens of community
By Mike D'Angelo November 18, 2014 | 6:00am
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Hong Kong master Johnnie To missteps with Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 14, 2014 | 8:03pm
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Saving Christmas is the solemn duty of this inept Kirk Cameron vehicle
By Jesse Hassenger November 14, 2014 | 4:35pm
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The desperate Dumb And Dumber To recycles the jokes of its predecessor
By A.A. Dowd November 13, 2014 | 7:45pm
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Butter On The Latch and Thou Wast Mild And Lovely make an eerie double feature
By Jenni Miller November 13, 2014 | 5:00pm
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Penance tells 5 unsettling modern-day fairy tales
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 13, 2014 | 4:05pm
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Bad Turn Worse namechecks Jim Thompson, but the comparison does it no favors
By Mike D'Angelo November 13, 2014 | 4:00pm
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Katie Holmes embarks on a Death Wish rampage in the vile Miss Meadows
By Mike D'Angelo November 13, 2014 | 3:00pm
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The speculative Foxcatcher turns true crime into unconvincing Greek tragedy
By A.A. Dowd November 13, 2014 | 6:00am
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Red Army tells the other side of Miracle’s underdog sports story
By David Ehrlich November 13, 2014 | 6:00am
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Beyond The Lights is a charming romance from the director of Love & Basketball
By Keith Uhlich November 13, 2014 | 6:00am
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Tommy Lee Jones directs and stars in a deliberately crooked oater, The Homesman
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 13, 2014 | 6:00am
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Jon Stewart makes a mushy, earnest directing debut with Rosewater
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 13, 2014 | 6:00am
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A Merry Friggin’ Christmas offers only the gift of seeing Robin Williams again
By Jesse Hassenger November 7, 2014 | 6:00pm
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Lovely animation and design elevate the derivative Big Hero 6
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 7, 2014 | 4:55pm
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The Way He Looks sacrifices the woods for the trees
By Keith Uhlich November 6, 2014 | 5:00pm
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The Better Angels is too easily mistaken for Malick
By Mike D'Angelo November 6, 2014 | 4:00pm
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Why Don’t You Play In Hell? invites you to a madcap cinematic playground
By Nick Schager November 6, 2014 | 3:00pm
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21 Years is a nice, superfluous acknowledgment of Richard Linklater’s career
By Jesse Hassenger November 6, 2014 | 2:00pm
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Ordinary life takes center stage in the smart, sensitive documentary Actress
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 6, 2014 | 6:00am
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Eddie Redmayne plays Stephen Hawking in the neutered biopic The Theory Of Everything
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 6, 2014 | 6:00am
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Jessabelle starts out scary but quickly gets waterlogged
By Katie Rife November 6, 2014 | 6:00am
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Open Windows attempts to disguise a revenge movie in a voyeuristic techno-thriller
By David Ehrlich November 6, 2014 | 6:00am
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The sparse Complete Jacques Tati showcases a singular comedic filmmaker
By Mike D'Angelo November 5, 2014 | 6:00am
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Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is an uneven space odyssey
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 5, 2014 | 2:10am
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The frictionless National Gallery takes museum visitors behind the scenes
By Mike D'Angelo November 4, 2014 | 5:05pm
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The lurid amnesia thriller Before I Go To Sleep is smarter than it lets on
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 30, 2014 | 4:00pm
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Jake Gyllenhaal finally gets his breakout with Nightcrawler
By Mike D'Angelo October 30, 2014 | 5:00am
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Horns fumbles with its own powers, much like its hero
By Jesse Hassenger October 30, 2014 | 5:00am
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Horror sequel ABCs Of Death 2 settles into its anthology format, offering only a few duds
By Keith Uhlich October 30, 2014 | 5:00am
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The more straightforward Point And Shoot seems, the more deceptive it becomes
By David Ehrlich October 30, 2014 | 5:00am
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With Goodbye To Language 3D, Jean-Luc Godard reinvents a new medium
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 29, 2014 | 3:00pm
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The Vanishing is the original Gone Girl, with the truth learned at a price
By Mike D'Angelo October 29, 2014 | 5:00am
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Revenge Of The Mekons is a sharp portrait of one of rock’s messiest bands
By Jason Heller October 28, 2014 | 5:00am
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The Great Invisible humanizes the BP oil spill, but does little else
By Mike D'Angelo October 28, 2014 | 5:00am
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Alain Resnais’ final film, Life Of Riley, is no swan song
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 24, 2014 | 6:45pm
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Ouija isn’t pushing hard enough
By Katie Rife October 23, 2014 | 6:35pm
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Internet-age romance The Heart Machine starts strong but loses the beat
By Jenni Miller October 23, 2014 | 5:00pm
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Laggies is even less of a Lynn Shelton movie than Lynn Shelton’s last movie
By A.A. Dowd October 23, 2014 | 3:25pm
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Force Majeure is a darkly comic study of male ego in collapse
By A.A. Dowd October 23, 2014 | 3:00pm
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Brad Anderson goes back to the madhouse with Stonehearst Asylum
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 23, 2014 | 3:00pm
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Juliette Binoche says 1,000 Times Good Night in a generic war-journalist drama
By Vadim Rizov October 23, 2014 | 2:00pm
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John Hawkes can’t jazz up the jazzman biopic Low Down
By David Ehrlich October 23, 2014 | 2:00pm
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Martin Scorsese presents a rote crime saga, Revenge Of The Green Dragons
By Mike D'Angelo October 23, 2014 | 1:00pm
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The blind football player drama 23 Blast is as silly as it is sincere
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 23, 2014 | 5:00am
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Gregg Araki chases respectability (again) with White Bird In A Blizzard
By Mike D'Angelo October 23, 2014 | 5:00am
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The Edward Snowden doc Citizenfour is less film than monumental event
By David Ehrlich October 23, 2014 | 5:00am
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Keanu Reeves shoots his way through the entertaining action fantasy John Wick
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 23, 2014 | 5:00am
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Exists finds a Blair Witch alum failing at the genre he helped pioneer
By Keith Uhlich October 23, 2014 | 5:00am
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You can finally own Thom Andersen’s cranky treasure, Los Angeles Plays Itself
By A.A. Dowd October 22, 2014 | 5:00am
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Housebound devises a novel solution to a common haunted-house-movie problem
By Mike D'Angelo October 16, 2014 | 5:00pm
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Felony is a commendably messy cop drama—until it isn’t
By Mike D'Angelo October 16, 2014 | 4:00pm
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If you liked those other Nicholas Sparks movies, you’ll like The Best Of Me
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 16, 2014 | 3:05pm
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Birdman puts Michael Keaton back under the shadow (and cowl) of a superhero
By A.A. Dowd October 16, 2014 | 3:01pm
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Young Ones fails to populate its futuristic Western world with interesting characters
By Keith Uhlich October 16, 2014 | 3:00pm
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Billy Crudup tunes up again in William H. Macy’s Rudderless
By Jesse Hassenger October 16, 2014 | 1:00pm
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The campus comedy Dear White People takes racial stereotypes to school
By A.A. Dowd October 16, 2014 | 1:00pm
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Addicted wants to teach you about sex addiction and get you off
By Jesse Hassenger October 16, 2014 | 5:00am
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Jason Schwartzman goes tragically toxic in the great Listen Up Philip
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 16, 2014 | 5:00am
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Kristen Stewart mans Guantanamo Bay in the politically evasive Camp X-Ray
By Vadim Rizov October 16, 2014 | 5:00am
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Guillermo Del Toro presents The Book Of Life, a dull tale told beautifully
By Katie Rife October 16, 2014 | 5:00am
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Studio Ghibli delivers a new masterpiece with The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya
By David Ehrlich October 16, 2014 | 5:00am
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David Ayer’s gory Fury delivers cheap shocks
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 16, 2014 | 5:00am
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Historical inaccuracies aside, My Darling Clementine is a Western for the ages
By Mike D'Angelo October 15, 2014 | 5:00am
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A plot to blow up Paris is the dramatic crux of the stagy Diplomacy
By Nick Schager October 14, 2014 | 5:00am
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Chris Pine leads a demented ride through L.A. excess in Stretch
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 9, 2014 | 5:00pm
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Antonio Banderas gets his I, Robot on in the dreary sci-fi thriller Autómata
By Vadim Rizov October 9, 2014 | 4:00pm
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Red Vs. Dead is vastly superior to the original Dead Snow
By Mike D'Angelo October 9, 2014 | 3:00pm
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Her trumps Him in the double-bill version of The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby
By A.A. Dowd October 9, 2014 | 3:00pm
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The architecture is more interesting than the drama in You’re Not You
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 9, 2014 | 1:00pm
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Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is actually pretty good
By Katie Rife October 9, 2014 | 5:00am
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Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall carry the generic legal drama The Judge
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 9, 2014 | 5:00am
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The thrilling Whiplash demolishes the clichés of inspirational-teacher cinema
By A.A. Dowd October 9, 2014 | 5:00am
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Bill Murray does his best with a sitcom role in St. Vincent
By Jesse Hassenger October 9, 2014 | 5:00am
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One Chance gives a talent-show sensation the corny biopic treatment
By David Ehrlich October 9, 2014 | 5:00am
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The Overnighters is a documentary as dramatic as any fiction film
By A.A. Dowd October 9, 2014 | 5:00am
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Jeremy Renner chases leads in the overly familiar Kill The Messenger
By Jesse Hassenger October 9, 2014 | 5:00am
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This Dracula should have remained Untold
By A.A. Dowd October 9, 2014 | 5:00am
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Hindsight hasn’t been kind to the icky French “classic” Sundays And Cybèle
By Mike D'Angelo October 8, 2014 | 5:00am
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Jazz legend Clark Terry finds a new protégé in Keep On Keepin’ On
By A.A. Dowd October 3, 2014 | 5:00am
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Last Hijack uses animation to explore the past and present of a Somali pirate
By David Ehrlich October 2, 2014 | 5:00pm
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Mathieu Amalric makes a puzzle out of a love affair with The Blue Room
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 2, 2014 | 5:00pm
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Stephen King adapts a bad movie out of his own A Good Marriage
By Kiva Reardon October 2, 2014 | 4:00pm
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John Cusack and Thomas Jane Drive Hard in a brainless action vehicle
By Jesse Hassenger October 2, 2014 | 3:00pm
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Annabelle is a cheap (and cheaply effective) spin-off of The Conjuring
By A.A. Dowd October 2, 2014 | 5:00am
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Harmontown documents the Community guru’s highs and lows
By Josh Modell October 2, 2014 | 5:00am
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God only knows how they made a worse version of Left Behind
By A.A. Dowd October 2, 2014 | 5:00am
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Gone Girl is a trick only David Fincher could pull off
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 2, 2014 | 5:00am
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The director of Monsieur Lazhar makes an awkward English-language debut with The Good Lie
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 2, 2014 | 5:00am
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Despite a game Edgar Ramírez, The Liberator lacks the vigor of Carlos
By Mike D'Angelo October 2, 2014 | 5:00am
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Just in time for Halloween, Criterion releases horror classic The Innocents
By David Ehrlich October 1, 2014 | 5:00am
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Nas doc Time Is Illmatic works best when telling the story of a family and a neighborhood
By Andrea Battleground September 30, 2014 | 5:00am
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Men, Women & Children is an Internet Age cautionary tale
By Mike D'Angelo September 30, 2014 | 5:00am
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Despite its unique subject matter, Lilting is mostly a misstep
By Vadim Rizov September 25, 2014 | 4:00pm
