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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
The gripping Israeli drama Policeman finally makes its way to America By Ben Kenigsberg June 19, 2014 | 5:00am
Think Like A Man Too has less Steve Harvey and more generic lousiness By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 19, 2014 | 5:00am
Murder, abuse, and flaming genitals make Heli hell for squeamish viewers By Ben Kenigsberg June 19, 2014 | 5:00am
Roman Polanski moves another talky drama, Venus In Fur, from stage to screen By A.A. Dowd June 19, 2014 | 5:00am
With Code Black, a medical student puts his own ER in front of the lens By Mike D'Angelo June 19, 2014 | 5:00am
Paul Haggis crashes back into Crash territory with the absurd Third Person By A.A. Dowd June 19, 2014 | 5:00am
Try as he might, Clint Eastwood can’t overcome the problems of Jersey Boys By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 19, 2014 | 5:00am
Coherence makes the most of a dizzying science-fiction premise By A.A. Dowd June 19, 2014 | 5:00am
Judex, new to Criterion, packs a lot of lunacy into 97 minutes By Mike D'Angelo June 18, 2014 | 5:00am
There are shades of Jarmusch and Woody Allen in the wry A Coffee In Berlin By Nick Schager June 12, 2014 | 5:00pm
Set at the onset of the AIDS crisis, Test is smarter about bodies than minds By David Ehrlich June 12, 2014 | 4:00pm
Ivory Tower weighs the value of college against its increasingly obscene cost By David Ehrlich June 12, 2014 | 3:00pm
Garrett Hedlund smokes and scowls his way through tiresome indie Lullaby By Jesse Hassenger June 12, 2014 | 3:00pm
Crooks face a coven in Álex De La Iglesia’s typically daft Witching & Bitching By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 12, 2014 | 2:00pm
The biopic Violette reduces its famous feminist subject to a whiny bore By Mike D'Angelo June 12, 2014 | 2:00pm
Aaron Paul plays a breaking dad in the clichéd indie drama Hellion By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 12, 2014 | 1:00pm
How To Train Your Dragon 2 has more dragons, less soul than its predecessor By A.A. Dowd June 12, 2014 | 5:00am
22 Jump Street is a sequel about sequels By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 12, 2014 | 5:00am
The Signal has a big sci-fi twist—and not much else going for it By A.A. Dowd June 12, 2014 | 5:00am
Guy Pearce drives angry in The Rover, a flavorful post-apocalyptic thriller By A.A. Dowd June 12, 2014 | 5:00am
Agnieszka Holland’s Burning Bush reminds that fighting City Hall takes time By Mike D'Angelo June 11, 2014 | 5:00am
Subtext or not, All That Heaven Allows works great as straight melodrama By Mike D'Angelo June 11, 2014 | 5:00am
Rigor Mortis revives the hopping-vampire movie By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 5, 2014 | 5:00pm
As agitprop docs go, Citizen Koch is both passionate and level-headed By David Ehrlich June 5, 2014 | 4:00pm
In his uneven Trust Me, Clark Gregg casts himself as a desperate child-star agent By Jesse Hassenger June 5, 2014 | 3:00pm
The director of Vincere mines headlines for schematic drama in Dormant Beauty By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 5, 2014 | 2:00pm
The Dutch curiosity Borgman strains too hard for instant cult appeal By Mike D'Angelo June 5, 2014 | 2:00pm
Edge Of Tomorrow puts Tom Cruise through an action-packed Groundhog Day By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 5, 2014 | 5:00am
Jenny Slate shows new shades of funny in the charming Obvious Child By A.A. Dowd June 5, 2014 | 5:00am
The Fault In Our Stars moves from page to screen, losing a little of its magic By A.A. Dowd June 5, 2014 | 5:00am
Mads Mikkelsen fights for justice in the misleadingly retitled Age Of Uprising By Mike D'Angelo June 5, 2014 | 5:00am
Bobcat Goldthwait’s Willow Creek is basically The Blair Bigfoot Project By A.A. Dowd June 5, 2014 | 5:00am
Mike Myers’ directorial debut, Supermensch, is a celebrity mash note By Jesse Hassenger June 5, 2014 | 5:00am
Montgomery Clift made his screen debut opposite John Wayne in the great Red River By Mike D'Angelo June 4, 2014 | 5:00am
Maleficent only half commits to subverting Disney fairy-tale convention By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 29, 2014 | 8:51pm
The inane Filth puts James McAvoy in touch with his inner Bad Lieutenant By David Ehrlich May 29, 2014 | 5:00am
Rock critic Toni Collette hunts a famous ex in the engaging Lucky Them By Mike D'Angelo May 29, 2014 | 5:00am
Restrepo follow-up Korengal sorely lacks the original’s immediacy By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 29, 2014 | 5:00am
Seth MacFarlane didn’t bother to think of A Million Ways To Die In The West By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 29, 2014 | 5:00am
Confused politics lurk beneath the aw-shucks charm of The Grand Seduction By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 29, 2014 | 5:00am
Jesse Eisenberg makes Night Moves in Kelly Reichardt’s moody new thriller By A.A. Dowd May 29, 2014 | 5:00am
Swedish teen girls go punk, circa 1982, in the irresistible We Are The Best! By Mike D'Angelo May 29, 2014 | 5:00am
Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic is much better than its initial reviews claimed By Mike D'Angelo May 28, 2014 | 5:00am
Robin Williams stars, unconvincingly, as The Angriest Man In Brooklyn By Jesse Hassenger May 22, 2014 | 5:00am
X-Men: Days Of Future Past embraces geeky, comics-style storytelling By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 22, 2014 | 5:00am
Blended is good only by Adam Sandler standards By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 22, 2014 | 5:00am
Cold In July thrillingly shuffles genres, before settling on a dumb one By A.A. Dowd May 22, 2014 | 5:00am
Stand Clear Of The Closing Doors resists intimacy and eschews convention By David Ehrlich May 22, 2014 | 5:00am
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Dance Of Reality is a psychomagical mystery tour By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 22, 2014 | 5:00am
Words And Pictures is lopsided in Clive Owen’s favor By Jesse Hassenger May 22, 2014 | 5:00am
A People Uncounted offers a crash course in Roma culture By Jenni Miller May 15, 2014 | 5:00am
The Fake Case takes another documentary glimpse at Chinese artist Ai Weiwei By David Ehrlich May 15, 2014 | 5:00am
The maudlin Disney sports movie Million Dollar Arm sends Jon Hamm to India By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 15, 2014 | 5:00am
Chinese Puzzle reunites the characters of L'Auberge Espagnole and Russian Dolls By Mike D'Angelo May 15, 2014 | 5:00am
Bernard Rose’s found-footage flick Sx_Tape is half-clever, all-incompetent By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 15, 2014 | 5:00am
A Night In Old Mexico feels like Robert Duvall’s swan song, even if it isn’t By David Ehrlich May 15, 2014 | 5:00am
James Gray’s The Immigrant is an American masterpiece By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 15, 2014 | 5:00am
Mr. Magoo remains funny by appealing to our own sense of self-certainty By Emily St. James May 14, 2014 | 5:00am
After a long dry spell, Hollywood does Godzilla right By A.A. Dowd May 13, 2014 | 5:15pm
Horses Of God sharply dramatizes a real-life terrorist attack By Nick Schager May 13, 2014 | 5:00am
Legends Of Oz saddles Dorothy with a team of unworthy replacements By Kevin McFarland May 9, 2014 | 4:30pm
May director Lucky McKee takes another misstep with All Cheerleaders Die By A.A. Dowd May 9, 2014 | 5:00am
Belle gives Britain’s anti-slavery movement the Masterpiece treatment By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 8, 2014 | 7:45pm
A new documentary takes an unfocused look at the Farmland of America By Jesse Hassenger May 8, 2014 | 5:00pm
Gia Coppola adapts Palo Alto, a short story collection by James Franco By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 8, 2014 | 4:00pm
Fed Up simplifies the facts to feed us a message about obesity By Mike D'Angelo May 8, 2014 | 3:00pm
The slasher-musical Stage Fright actively courts camp appreciation By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 8, 2014 | 2:00pm
Neighbors should have wrung more laughs out of its generational-warfare premise By A.A. Dowd May 8, 2014 | 5:00am
Jon Favreau gets back to his indie roots—sort of—with the comedy Chef By A.A. Dowd May 8, 2014 | 5:00am
The comedy The Double pits Jesse Eisenberg against…Jesse Eisenberg By Ben Kenigsberg May 8, 2014 | 5:00am
Philip Seymour Hoffman leads a strong cast in the actors’ picture God’s Pocket By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 8, 2014 | 5:00am
Devil’s Knot pointlessly dramatizes the West Memphis Three case By Ben Kenigsberg May 8, 2014 | 5:00am

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