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The “faith-based” Moms’ Night Out scrubs comedy tropes of their naughtiness By Mike D'Angelo May 8, 2014 | 5:00am
Dreyer’s 1925 Master Of The House is shockingly progressive about gender By Ben Kenigsberg May 7, 2014 | 5:00am
Blood Glacier is a solid B-monster movie, nothing more or less By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 2, 2014 | 7:08pm
Elizabeth Banks takes a long Walk Of Shame in this throwback class comedy By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 2, 2014 | 5:29pm
Wolf Creek 2 is more extreme but less terrifying than the original By A.A. Dowd May 2, 2014 | 5:00pm
Ti West plays dumb in The Sacrament, proving he’s too good for found-footage By A.A. Dowd May 2, 2014 | 5:00pm
A young nun discovers who she really is in Pawel Pawlikowski’s artful Ida By A.A. Dowd May 2, 2014 | 5:00am
Only Kevin Spacey and his friends will get much out of NOW By Mike D'Angelo May 1, 2014 | 5:00pm
Thomas Haden Church stars in Whitewash, an undercooked survival thriller By Jenni Miller May 1, 2014 | 3:00pm
Beneath The Harvest Sky mucks up a fine regional mood piece with unnecessary plot By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 1, 2014 | 2:00pm
Tony Jaa’s comeback movie, The Protector 2, inspires more laughter than awe By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 1, 2014 | 5:00am
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 suffers from an excess of plot, villains, everything By A.A. Dowd May 1, 2014 | 5:00am
With Decoding Annie Parker, the cinematographer of White Chicks gets into directing By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 1, 2014 | 5:00am
Il Sorpasso both exemplifies and perfects the Italian comedy By David Ehrlich April 30, 2014 | 5:00am
Gambit is one of those rare films written, but not directed, by the Coen brothers By Jesse Hassenger April 29, 2014 | 5:00pm
Make sure to bring a pair of earplugs to The Quiet Ones, the year’s loudest horror movie By A.A. Dowd April 25, 2014 | 5:00pm
Brick Mansions remakes District B13 with the late Paul Walker and more cartoon illogic By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 24, 2014 | 7:28pm
No points for guessing the secret identity of The German Doctor’s title character By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 24, 2014 | 5:00pm
Despite its title, Bicycling With Molière is more low comedy than high art By Mike D'Angelo April 24, 2014 | 3:00pm
For No Good Reason profiles Hunter S. Thompson’s favorite cartoonist, Ralph Steadman By Jesse Hassenger April 24, 2014 | 2:00pm
The Other Woman starts mildly classy—and then out comes the CGI dog shit and transphobia By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 24, 2014 | 5:00am
Joss Whedon penned the high-concept romance In Your Eyes, now available to download By Jesse Hassenger April 24, 2014 | 5:00am
Blue Ruin revitalizes the revenge thriller with eccentric personality By A.A. Dowd April 24, 2014 | 5:00am
Tom Hardy takes an unsatisfying solo drive in Locke By A.A. Dowd April 24, 2014 | 5:00am
François Ozon’s Young & Beautiful dances around the motives of a teenage prostitute By Mike D'Angelo April 24, 2014 | 5:00am
New to Criterion, Riot In Cell Block 11 is at once an exploitation flick and a message movie By Mike D'Angelo April 23, 2014 | 5:00am
A Haunted House 2 is better than its predecessor, but that ain’t saying much By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 18, 2014 | 6:15pm
The documentary Manakamana offers two hours of prime people watching By A.A. Dowd April 17, 2014 | 5:00pm
The Final Member is surprisingly moving—for a doc about a penis museum By Ben Kenigsberg April 17, 2014 | 3:00pm
There’s nothing worth savoring on this Tasting Menu By Mike D'Angelo April 17, 2014 | 2:00pm
Johnny Depp gets digitized in the silly sci-fi polemic Transcendence By A.A. Dowd April 17, 2014 | 5:00am
Woody Allen plays a pimp—yes, really—in John Turturro’s Fading Gigolo By Ben Kenigsberg April 17, 2014 | 5:00am
The thriller Proxy is at its best when throwing viewers for a loop By A.A. Dowd April 17, 2014 | 5:00am
Breaking The Waves was a major turning point in Lars Von Trier’s career By Mike D'Angelo April 16, 2014 | 5:00am
Heaven Is For Real preaches to the choir but sometimes looks good doing it By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 16, 2014 | 5:00am
Colin Firth confronts his demons—and an old foe—in The Railway Man By A.A. Dowd April 10, 2014 | 5:00pm
Simon Pegg steals Nick Frost’s first solo vehicle, Cuban Fury, with a cameo By Mike D'Angelo April 10, 2014 | 5:00am
Nicolas Cage reconnects with his serious side in David Gordon Green’s Joe By A.A. Dowd April 10, 2014 | 5:00am
Oddly, the sports comedy Draft Day borrows plays from a superhero flick By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 10, 2014 | 5:00am
Kristen Wiig struggles to play a quiet introvert in Hateship Loveship By Mike D'Angelo April 10, 2014 | 5:00am
Too often, Oculus simply reflects the scare tactics of better movies By A.A. Dowd April 10, 2014 | 5:00am
Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive is a vampire hangout movie By A.A. Dowd April 10, 2014 | 5:00am
Too much story and too many bright colors bring down Rio 2 By Kevin McFarland April 10, 2014 | 5:00am
Ingmar Bergman’s radical, influential Persona finally comes to Criterion By Mike D'Angelo April 9, 2014 | 5:00am
Shelved for years, Halle Berry’s Frankie & Alice now looks like a time capsule By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 4, 2014 | 6:21pm
With Watermark, the team behind Manufactured Landscapes lectures about H2O By Nick Schager April 3, 2014 | 5:00pm
Gina Carano administers the tropical beatdowns of In The Blood By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 3, 2014 | 4:00pm
The Galapagos Affair needlessly pads a fascinating historical mystery By Mike D'Angelo April 3, 2014 | 3:00pm
Scarlett Johansson is an alien seductress on the prowl in Under The Skin By A.A. Dowd April 3, 2014 | 5:00am
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is the best Marvel film since The Avengers By A.A. Dowd April 3, 2014 | 5:00am
Island Of Lemurs is gorgeous, but it’s barely half a movie By Kevin McFarland April 3, 2014 | 5:00am
Steve Coogan drags his shallow, fame-crazed Alan Partridge into theaters By Jesse Hassenger April 3, 2014 | 5:00am
As the title character of Dom Hemingway, Jude Law proves size does matter By Mike D'Angelo April 1, 2014 | 5:00am
Civil War-era drama The Retrieval could use a less televisual style By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 1, 2014 | 5:00am
Clumsy direction and clumsier plotting sabotage Sabotage By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 27, 2014 | 11:00pm
Silliness and profundity do battle, like the forces of Good and Evil, in Noah By A.A. Dowd March 27, 2014 | 10:40pm
It’s “no pain, no gain” for the desperate suckers of Cheap Thrills By Mike D'Angelo March 27, 2014 | 4:00pm
Guy Pearce and co-stars grapple with the clichéd “naturalism” of Breathe In By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 27, 2014 | 3:00pm
The rock doc Mistaken For Strangers isn’t really about The National’s music By Josh Modell March 27, 2014 | 2:00pm
The biopic Cesar Chavez is like a mural of a Wikipedia page By A.A. Dowd March 27, 2014 | 5:00am
There’s more variety in The Raid 2, but the carnage is still the main draw By Ben Kenigsberg March 27, 2014 | 5:00am
Criterion adds Harold Lloyd’s campus comedy The Freshman to its collection By Mike D'Angelo March 26, 2014 | 5:00am
God’s Not Dead is a mess even by Christian film standards By Emily St. James March 24, 2014 | 8:08pm
As its second volume reveals, Nymphomaniac is Lars on Lars By A.A. Dowd March 20, 2014 | 7:13pm
Sexual awakening can be a real chore, according to It Felt Like Love By A.A. Dowd March 20, 2014 | 5:00pm
Michael Pitt and Nina Arianda hatch a foolish scheme to Rob The Mob By Ben Kenigsberg March 20, 2014 | 4:00pm
James Franco invites more ridicule with the sporadically amusing Maladies By Mike D'Angelo March 20, 2014 | 3:00pm
Blood Ties casts Clive Owen and Billy Crudup in a ’70s-style crime opus By Jesse Hassenger March 20, 2014 | 2:00pm
Muppets Most Wanted has the feel, but not the look, of vintage Henson By Erik Adams March 20, 2014 | 5:00am
The documentary Anita reduces the Anita Hill story to one of generic uplift By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 20, 2014 | 5:00am
While it improves on the book, Divergent remains in The Hunger Games’ shadow By Kevin McFarland March 20, 2014 | 5:00am
Jodorowsky’s Dune looks back on the greatest sci-fi film never made By Ben Kenigsberg March 20, 2014 | 5:00am
An influence on Star Wars, The Hidden Fortress is Kurosawa’s most fun film By Mike D'Angelo March 19, 2014 | 5:00am
Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club is atypically competent—and boring By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 14, 2014 | 6:10pm
Enemy offers two Jake Gyllenhaals for the price of one, neither interesting By A.A. Dowd March 14, 2014 | 5:00pm
Need For Speed runs not on plot, but on a deep love for car culture By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 13, 2014 | 8:18pm
Only when transforming into a twofer does The Cold Lands find its footing By Emily St. James March 13, 2014 | 5:00pm
Matt Dillon and Kurt Russell plot a heist in The Art Of The Steal By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 13, 2014 | 3:00pm
The Missing Picture uses clay figurines to expose the horrors of history By A.A. Dowd March 13, 2014 | 3:00pm
Teenage ambitiously attempts to trace the origins of all youth culture By Ben Kenigsberg March 13, 2014 | 2:00pm
Talking heating vents are not scary—nor is anything else in Dark House By Mike D'Angelo March 13, 2014 | 2:00pm
For his directorial debut, Jason Bateman uses some very Bad Words By A.A. Dowd March 13, 2014 | 5:00am
Catherine Deneuve takes a road trip to nowhere in On My Way By Mike D'Angelo March 13, 2014 | 5:00am
Le Week-End may sound like Before Midnight, but don’t get your hopes up By Ben Kenigsberg March 13, 2014 | 5:00am
Veronica Mars is back, a little rusty but still worth the fanfare By A.A. Dowd March 13, 2014 | 5:00am
Before going eastbound and down, DGG made the great George Washington By A.A. Dowd March 12, 2014 | 5:00am
Haunt summons horror clichés but fails to bring them to life By A.A. Dowd March 7, 2014 | 6:00pm
Elijah Wood suffers some serious stage fright in the thriller Grand Piano By A.A. Dowd March 7, 2014 | 6:00pm
The first half of Lars von Trier’s erotic opus Nymphomaniac arrives Stateside By A.A. Dowd March 7, 2014 | 5:33pm
Mr. Peabody & Sherman toys with history—including that of its inspiration By Kevin McFarland March 6, 2014 | 6:00am
Annette Bening courts a doppelgänger in the blandly staged The Face Of Love By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 6, 2014 | 6:00am
Even more so than part one, 300: Rise Of An Empire is a rotten power fantasy By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 6, 2014 | 6:00am
Wes Anderson erects The Grand Budapest Hotel, a delightfully madcap caper By A.A. Dowd March 6, 2014 | 6:00am
There are no peaceful mangers in the dangerous Bethlehem of Bethlehem By Mike D'Angelo March 6, 2014 | 6:00am
The cast of In Fear may really be scared, but the feeling isn’t infectious By Mike D'Angelo March 6, 2014 | 6:00am
Stephen Chow applies his zany touch to Chinese classic Journey To The West By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 6, 2014 | 6:00am
The new documentary Particle Fever breaks down the “God particle” By Josh Modell March 6, 2014 | 6:00am
Steven Soderbergh proved his skills as a screenwriter with King Of The Hill By Mike D'Angelo March 5, 2014 | 6:00am
History Channel’s The Bible is cut into an equally chintzy film, Son Of God By Ben Kenigsberg February 28, 2014 | 12:00am
War is a slow-mo, speed-ramped hell in the Russian blockbuster Stalingrad By Jesse Hassenger February 28, 2014 | 12:00am
The Bag Man is two decades late to the knockoff-Tarantino party By Mike D'Angelo February 27, 2014 | 6:00am
The Lunchbox is a minor film about the minor moments of life By Ben Kenigsberg February 27, 2014 | 6:00am
Liam Neeson hunts a hijacker in the mile-high mystery Non-Stop By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 27, 2014 | 6:00am
The Oscar-nominated Ernest & Celestine is a hand-drawn animated delight By Mike D'Angelo February 27, 2014 | 6:00am
Kids For Cash looks past scandal to a real problem with the justice system By A.A. Dowd February 27, 2014 | 6:00am
The director of The Mummy brings Dean Koontz’s Odd Thomas to the screen By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 27, 2014 | 6:00am
The sumptuous Tess is Roman Polanski by way of David Lean By Ben Kenigsberg February 26, 2014 | 6:00am
Pompeii plays to the strengths and weaknesses of Paul W.S. Anderson By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 20, 2014 | 11:00pm

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