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Indie rock star Stuart Murdoch channels his inner Richard Lester in God Help The Girl By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky September 4, 2014 | 5:00am
The Strange Color Of Your Body’s Tears tests the limits of stylistic showboating By A.A. Dowd September 4, 2014 | 5:00am
The bordertown drama Frontera seems caught between storytelling styles By Jesse Hassenger September 4, 2014 | 5:00am
Last Days In Vietnam offers an engrossing chronicle of the fall of Saigon By Mike D'Angelo September 4, 2014 | 5:00am
With Vengeance Is Mine, Imamura leaves the motives of a murderer mysterious By David Ehrlich September 3, 2014 | 5:00am
Despite a uniquely creepy setting, As Above, So Below scares up no new thrills By A.A. Dowd August 29, 2014 | 5:00pm
Life Of Crime plays like a Jackie Brown origin story By A.A. Dowd August 28, 2014 | 5:00am
Kevin Kline hammily impersonates Errol Flynn in The Last Of Robin Hood By Vadim Rizov August 28, 2014 | 5:00am
The Congress is a science-fiction fiasco of Southland Tales variety By Mike D'Angelo August 28, 2014 | 5:00am
The WWII miserablism of The Notebook is hard to handle By Benjamin Mercer August 28, 2014 | 5:00am
The November Man is the James Bond movie Roger Donaldson never got to make By Jesse Hassenger August 27, 2014 | 5:00pm
Starred Up is a brutal, but profoundly humane, look at prison life By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 27, 2014 | 5:00am
Metro Manila is a Nolanesque take on life and death in a big city slum By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 22, 2014 | 5:00am
A Dame To Kill For is a hollow shell of the original Sin City By A.A. Dowd August 21, 2014 | 9:38pm
Humble sports movie When The Game Stands Tall is easier to appreciate than enjoy By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 21, 2014 | 5:00am
Matthew Weiner’s Are You Here amounts to less than the sum of its parts By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 21, 2014 | 5:00am
Chloë Grace Moretz deserves better than generic YA adaptations like If I Stay By A.A. Dowd August 21, 2014 | 5:00am
The Possession Of Michael King is possessed by the spirit of better horror movies By Jesse Hassenger August 21, 2014 | 5:00am
Even fans of the out-and-proud Star Trek alum may be bored by To Be Takei By Vadim Rizov August 21, 2014 | 5:00am
Catherine Breillat unwisely conceals that Abuse Of Weakness is autobiographical By Mike D'Angelo August 21, 2014 | 5:00am
Love Is Strange updates Make Way For Tomorrow for a rocky new economic age By A.A. Dowd August 21, 2014 | 5:00am
To explain the true premise of The One I Love would be to spoil its fun By Mike D'Angelo August 21, 2014 | 5:00am
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! is one of Pedro Almodóvar’s ickiest movies By Mike D'Angelo August 20, 2014 | 5:00am
The literary adaptation Winter In The Blood is as confused as its drunken hero By Nick Schager August 19, 2014 | 5:00am
There’s Herzogian humor to the eco doc The Expedition To The End Of The World By David Ehrlich August 19, 2014 | 5:00am
The Expendables 3 embraces the franchise’s inner Saturday morning cartoon By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 14, 2014 | 7:57pm
Philippe Garrel tackles another doomed romance in Jealousy By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 14, 2014 | 5:00pm
True to its title, the horror film Septic Man is total crap By Jesse Hassenger August 14, 2014 | 5:00pm
The documentary Dinosaur 13 offers a one-sided take on a legal quagmire By A.A. Dowd August 14, 2014 | 5:00pm
Korean provocateur Kim Ki-duk plays castration for laughs in Moebius By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 14, 2014 | 5:00am
The Trip To Italy is just more of the same from Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon By Mike D'Angelo August 14, 2014 | 5:00am
The Giver has been reshaped to resemble the modern YA hits it inspired By A.A. Dowd August 14, 2014 | 5:00am
Life After Beth has a zombie Aubrey Plaza…and that’s about it By Mike D'Angelo August 14, 2014 | 5:00am
The indie comedy Frank conceals Michael Fassbender’s face, but not his talent By A.A. Dowd August 14, 2014 | 5:00am
Let’s Be Cops plays like an R-rated New Girl spinoff By A.A. Dowd August 13, 2014 | 7:02pm
John Cassavetes’ final major work, Love Streams, is an independent movie like no other By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 13, 2014 | 5:00am
Step Up All In reassembles the franchise ranks for an all-star sequel By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 8, 2014 | 7:27pm
Fifi Howls From Happiness depicts the final days of an Iranian artist By Benjamin Mercer August 7, 2014 | 5:00pm
About Alex shows why a millennial Big Chill makes little sense By Mike D'Angelo August 7, 2014 | 4:00pm
The Dog tells the true, even weirder story of Dog Day Afternoon By Josh Modell August 7, 2014 | 3:00pm
James Cameron embarks on another Deepsea Challenge, this one in front of the camera By David Ehrlich August 7, 2014 | 2:00pm
The Hundred-Foot Journey celebrates bold flavor, which it doesn’t possess By A.A. Dowd August 7, 2014 | 5:00am
There’s fun to be had from the phony found-footage twisters of Into The Storm By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 7, 2014 | 5:00am
Michael Bay preserves the origins, but not the fun, of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles By A.A. Dowd August 7, 2014 | 5:00am
Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan star in the charming, but derivative, What If By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 7, 2014 | 5:00am
Take a crash course in Werner Herzog with an essential new Blu-ray set By A.A. Dowd August 6, 2014 | 5:00am
Web Junkie examines World Of Warcraft addiction and how it’s treated in China By Mike D'Angelo August 5, 2014 | 5:00am
Brendan Gleeson is a priest on borrowed time in the grimly comic Calvary By A.A. Dowd July 31, 2014 | 5:00pm
Sundance winner Rich Hill takes a close look at impoverished Missouri youth By A.A. Dowd July 31, 2014 | 5:00pm
Guardians Of The Galaxy puts the swagger back into space opera By A.A. Dowd July 31, 2014 | 5:00am
James Franco mines Cormac McCarthy for cheap shocks in Child Of God By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 31, 2014 | 5:00am
Finding Fela! casts clear light on the life of Afrobeat icon Fela Kuti By Jason Heller July 31, 2014 | 5:00am
Get On Up is a cagey, shapeless James Brown biopic By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 31, 2014 | 5:00am
Patient Zero is a perfunctory third chapter in the Cabin Fever series By Nick Schager July 31, 2014 | 5:00am
Catherine Keener goes quiet in War Story, a drama of stillness and solitude By Jesse Hassenger July 31, 2014 | 5:00am
The Kill Team weeps for a jailed soldier, but are its cries of injustice justified? By Mike D'Angelo July 31, 2014 | 5:00am
The Strange Little Cat is a formally, conceptually audacious debut By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 31, 2014 | 5:00am
The reunion drama The Big Chill uses golden oldies to pump up the nostalgia By Mike D'Angelo July 30, 2014 | 5:00am
Dwayne Johnson stars in a revisionist Hercules By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 25, 2014 | 6:02pm
Rob Reiner keeps And So It Goes out of Last Vegas territory—but just barely By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 24, 2014 | 5:00am
A Most Wanted Man is a minor but satisfying sendoff for Philip Seymour Hoffman By A.A. Dowd July 24, 2014 | 5:00am
Some improvisational projects, like Happy Christmas, should just be scrapped By Mike D'Angelo July 24, 2014 | 5:00am
Luc Besson’s Lucy is pure lunacy By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 24, 2014 | 5:00am
Uncomfortable parallels sour Woody Allen’s frothy Magic In The Moonlight By Ben Kenigsberg July 24, 2014 | 5:00am
Despite loftier aims, Pickpocket works best when focusing on its titular craft By Mike D'Angelo July 23, 2014 | 5:00am
Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen relive their youth in Very Good Girls By Jesse Hassenger July 22, 2014 | 5:00am
Filmed theater is a mistake, even when the play is Ibsen’s great Master Builder By Mike D'Angelo July 22, 2014 | 5:00am
The Purge: Anarchy is a bigger (and comparatively better) battle royal By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 17, 2014 | 5:00am
Sex Tape puts Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel through safe sitcom paces By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 17, 2014 | 5:00am
Yes, I Origins is about eyes—and that wordplay is where the obviousness begins By A.A. Dowd July 17, 2014 | 5:00am
Music can treat dementia says the glorified fundraising effort Alive Inside By Mike D'Angelo July 17, 2014 | 5:00am
Even for a Michel Gondry film, Mood Indigo suffers from whimsy overload By A.A. Dowd July 17, 2014 | 5:00am
Zach Braff remains true to his mushy heart with Wish I Was Here By A.A. Dowd July 17, 2014 | 5:00am
Video Games: The Movie has little to offer but gushy love for its subject By Jesse Hassenger July 17, 2014 | 5:00am
Fire & Rescue improves on Planes, while still flying well below Pixar standards By A.A. Dowd July 17, 2014 | 5:00am
Exploding head aside, Scanners is one of Cronenberg’s most conventional films By A.A. Dowd July 16, 2014 | 5:00am
Affluenza is basically The Teen Gatsby—a monumentally stupid idea By Mike D'Angelo July 10, 2014 | 5:00pm
Jason “Khal Drogo” Momoa co-writes, directs, and stars in Road To Paloma By Jesse Hassenger July 10, 2014 | 4:00pm
Nick Hornby’s A Long Way Down gets a tonally uneven adaptation By Mike D'Angelo July 10, 2014 | 3:00pm
Made In America is Ron Howard’s gosh-wow tribute to Jay Z’s music fest By Jason Heller July 10, 2014 | 2:00pm
Despite all the Rage, it’s a lackluster Nicolas Cage By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 10, 2014 | 5:00am
Two old friends stay forever young in the Sundance-approved Land Ho! By Ben Kenigsberg July 10, 2014 | 5:00am
The astonishing Boyhood breaks new ground for coming-of-age movies By A.A. Dowd July 10, 2014 | 5:00am
Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes takes another step toward a foregone conclusion By A.A. Dowd July 10, 2014 | 5:00am
Jafar Panahi’s meta movie Closed Curtain sputters, but with good reason By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 9, 2014 | 5:00am
The underseen masterpiece Caught gets a no-frills release By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 9, 2014 | 5:00am
Life Itself pays affecting tribute to Roger Ebert, cinema’s most famous critic By A.A. Dowd July 3, 2014 | 5:00am
The director of 2016: Obama’s America is at it again with America By David Ehrlich July 3, 2014 | 5:00am
The Spanish import Wrinkles is like an animated Amour By Jesse Hassenger July 3, 2014 | 5:00am
In his first film since The Dreamers, Bertolucci revisits familiar themes By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 3, 2014 | 5:00am
Hal Hartley presents a cross-section of American theater in My America By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 3, 2014 | 5:00am
Gabrielle explores Williams syndrome by casting an actress who actually has it By Mike D'Angelo July 3, 2014 | 5:00am
Earth To Echo is part hokey kids movie, part experimental video By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 2, 2014 | 8:09pm
Hearts And Minds is the Fahrenheit 9/11 of the Vietnam years By Mike D'Angelo July 2, 2014 | 5:00am
Deliver Us From Evil combines the hoariest clichés of cop and exorcism films By A.A. Dowd July 1, 2014 | 10:09pm
The well-meaning Tammy plays against Melissa McCarthy’s comedic strengths By A.A. Dowd July 1, 2014 | 7:11pm
Groundhog Day fans will experience laugh-free déjà vu watching Premature By Mike D'Angelo July 1, 2014 | 5:00am
Transformers: Age Of Extinction runs on fumes By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 26, 2014 | 7:37pm
From the director of The Host comes Snowpiercer, a thrilling action parable By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 26, 2014 | 5:00am
The Internet’s Own Boy recounts the life and tragic death of hacktivist Aaron Swartz By Mike D'Angelo June 26, 2014 | 5:00am
WHITEY investigates the trial of an infamous Boston gangster By A.A. Dowd June 26, 2014 | 5:00am
Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler spoof rom-com clichés in They Came Together By A.A. Dowd June 26, 2014 | 5:00am
Begin Again is little more than a “let’s put on a show” musical By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 26, 2014 | 5:00am
The two-hander Drones weirdly skirts major concerns about drone warfare By Mike D'Angelo June 26, 2014 | 5:00am
The Beatles satirize their celebrity in the still-joyous A Hard Day’s Night By Mike D'Angelo June 25, 2014 | 5:00am
Fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent is the subject of an overtaxed biopic By David Ehrlich June 24, 2014 | 5:00am
Jan Troell’s The Last Sentence is an airless, colorless biopic By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 20, 2014 | 5:00pm
Norte, The End Of History introduces an underseen visionary By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 20, 2014 | 5:00pm

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