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Kevin Costner’s very particular set of skills doesn’t apply to 3 Days To Kill By A.A. Dowd February 20, 2014 | 11:00pm
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me shows the Broadway legend at her best and worst By Emily St. James February 20, 2014 | 6:00am
The director of Paradise Now returns with Omar, another fatalistic drama By Ben Kenigsberg February 20, 2014 | 6:00am
Oscar Isaac romances Elizabeth Olsen in the passionless In Secret By Ben Kenigsberg February 20, 2014 | 6:00am
For a Romanian New Wave film, Child’s Pose is surprisingly sloppy By Mike D'Angelo February 19, 2014 | 6:00am
Criterion makes Hitchcock’s exciting Foreign Correspondent widely available By Ben Kenigsberg February 19, 2014 | 6:00am
The Easy Money series continues to traffic in clichéd crime-movie wisdom By A.A. Dowd February 13, 2014 | 6:00am
Winter’s Tale is so ludicrously sappy it’s almost (but not quite) lovable By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 13, 2014 | 6:00am
As Jimmy P. demonstrates, therapy sessions make for weak drama By Mike D'Angelo February 13, 2014 | 6:00am
’80s remake week continues with an earnest Endless Love do-over By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 13, 2014 | 6:00am
David Mamet would probably hate this About Last Night too By A.A. Dowd February 13, 2014 | 6:00am
Date And Switch tweaks sex-comedy convention—but not enough By Erik Adams February 13, 2014 | 6:00am
The New Black fails to do justice to a complicated civil rights issue By Ben Kenigsberg February 12, 2014 | 6:00am
It’s a good and bad thing that the new RoboCop is not the old RoboCop By A.A. Dowd February 11, 2014 | 4:57pm
Vampire Academy is a defanged hodgepodge of paranormal high school melodrama By Kevin McFarland February 7, 2014 | 11:24pm
The Last Of The Unjust turns a Shoah outtake into its own fascinating film By Ben Kenigsberg February 6, 2014 | 6:00am
A Field In England has a field in England—and not much else going for it By Mike D'Angelo February 6, 2014 | 6:00am
The Lego Movie is another lovable effort from the creators of Clone High By Kevin McFarland February 6, 2014 | 6:00am
Simon Pegg has A Fantastic Fear Of Everything—or just laundry and murderers By Mike D'Angelo February 6, 2014 | 6:00am
The Monuments Men celebrates history by romantically clouding it By A.A. Dowd February 6, 2014 | 6:00am
Jean-Claude Van Damme can’t quite salvage the comedy Welcome To The Jungle By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 6, 2014 | 6:00am
The lit classic that inspired Rent also spawned an Aki Kaurismäki picture By Mike D'Angelo February 5, 2014 | 6:00am
Louis C.K.’s unearthed first feature is a revealing misfire By A.A. Dowd January 30, 2014 | 9:33pm
Andy Garcia and Vera Farmiga flirt through the mostly breezy At Middleton By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 30, 2014 | 6:00am
Jobriath A.D. examines a rock ’n’ roll dream that never came true By Josh Modell January 30, 2014 | 6:00am
Without clear agenda, 12 O’Clock Boys examines Baltimore dirt-bike culture By Mike D'Angelo January 30, 2014 | 6:00am
With Labor Day, Jason Reitman takes a disastrous detour into melodrama By A.A. Dowd January 30, 2014 | 6:00am
Realism and fantasy don’t blend in the indie romance Brightest Star By Mike D'Angelo January 30, 2014 | 6:00am
The rom-com That Awkward Moment mostly wastes its talented young cast By Kevin McFarland January 30, 2014 | 6:00am
With Best Night Ever, the directors of Disaster Movie hit a new low By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 30, 2014 | 6:00am
Charlie Victor Romeo is an uneasy flier’s worst nightmare By Ben Kenigsberg January 29, 2014 | 6:00am
The Long Day Closes is one of the great movies about memory By A.A. Dowd January 29, 2014 | 6:00am
Vanessa Hudgens stumbles through the social-issues melodrama Gimme Shelter By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 25, 2014 | 12:01am
I, Frankenstein is a (slightly) better monster mash than Underworld By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 24, 2014 | 10:43pm
The bombastic Visitors is little more than glorified installation art By Ben Kenigsberg January 23, 2014 | 6:00am
There’s a serious Twin Peaks vibe to the B-action flick Enemies Closer By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 23, 2014 | 6:00am
Will Forte’s career reinvention continues in the indie drama Run & Jump By Kyle Ryan January 23, 2014 | 6:00am
Joe Swanberg’s 24 Exposures toys around with genre conventions By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 23, 2014 | 6:00am
Gloria is the rare film to explore fiftysomething female sexuality By Mike D'Angelo January 23, 2014 | 6:00am
Sex and danger are entwined in the erotic thriller Stranger By The Lake By Ben Kenigsberg January 23, 2014 | 6:00am
It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is indulgent, messy fun By Mike D'Angelo January 22, 2014 | 6:00am
Devil’s Due does nothing new with the demon-baby trope By Mike D'Angelo January 17, 2014 | 5:19pm
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit keeps its espionage bland By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 16, 2014 | 9:09pm
Brisk in weather and pacing, Reasonable Doubt is otherwise of little merit By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 16, 2014 | 6:00am
The Nut Job is a tedious cookie-cutter family film By Kevin McFarland January 16, 2014 | 6:00am
At its best, buddy comedy Ride Along channels the spirit of Jerry Lewis By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 16, 2014 | 6:00am
Big Bad Wolves may be the rare revenge movie that’s actually anti-revenge By A.A. Dowd January 16, 2014 | 6:00am
Hirokazu Kore-Eda stumbles with the Lifetime-worthy Like Father, Like Son By Mike D'Angelo January 16, 2014 | 6:00am
Michael Mann launched his film career with the confident, arresting Thief By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 15, 2014 | 6:00am
Nazi youth could be swell people too, argues the 5-hour Generation War By Ben Kenigsberg January 15, 2014 | 6:00am
Only fans of phoniness will get anything out of The Legend Of Hercules By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 10, 2014 | 9:02pm
Cheap symbolism abounds in the Sundance indie The Truth About Emanuel By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 9, 2014 | 6:00am
Banshee Chapter is like a lost, mediocre episode of The X-Files By A.A. Dowd January 9, 2014 | 6:00am
Zoë Bell’s tough talents are wasted on the brainless Raze By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 9, 2014 | 6:00am
In Bloom proves that there’s tension left in Chekhov’s gun By Mike D'Angelo January 9, 2014 | 6:00am
A germophobe romances an agoraphobe in the twisty The Best Offer By Mike D'Angelo January 9, 2014 | 6:00am
Not even Bryan Cranston can save the generic crime film Cold Comes The Night By Josh Modell January 9, 2014 | 6:00am
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project is uneven but illuminating By Mike D'Angelo January 8, 2014 | 6:00am
The Marked Ones is a Paranormal Activity movie in name only By A.A. Dowd January 3, 2014 | 9:00pm
The yakuza sequel Beyond Outrage is less urgent than its predecessor By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 3, 2014 | 9:00pm
Justin Bieber’s Believe is another manipulative PR stunt By Kevin McFarland December 27, 2013 | 6:00am
47 Ronin is a singularly strange blockbuster By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 27, 2013 | 6:00am
Leave it to the Weinsteins to turn August: Osage County into awards bait By Ben Kenigsberg December 24, 2013 | 6:00am
Lone Survivor comes dangerously close to glorifying warfare By A.A. Dowd December 24, 2013 | 6:00am
Only when embracing fantasy does The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty shine By Ben Kenigsberg December 24, 2013 | 6:00am
Against the odds, Grudge Match finds emotional truth in clichés By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 24, 2013 | 6:00am
Martin Scorsese tackles excess with excess in The Wolf Of Wall Street By A.A. Dowd December 24, 2013 | 6:00am
The Invisible Woman revisits a footnote in the love life of Charles Dickens By Mike D'Angelo December 24, 2013 | 6:00am
All The Light In The Sky is another of Joe Swanberg’s “small” movies By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
Clio Barnard moves gracefully to fiction with The Selfish Giant By Mike D'Angelo December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
The Past is another emotionally complex triumph from Asghar Farhadi By Mike D'Angelo December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
Producers dumb down Walking With Dinosaurs for movie screens By A.A. Dowd December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
Quentin Dupieux offers another dose of comedic surrealism with Wrong Cops By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
There are hits and misses aplenty in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues By Ben Kenigsberg December 18, 2013 | 6:00am
Joaquin Phoenix courts his computer in the beguiling Her By A.A. Dowd December 18, 2013 | 6:00am
Robert Altman’s Nashville is no attack on the city By Mike D'Angelo December 18, 2013 | 6:00am
By the standards of the series, A Madea Christmas is a modest improvement By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 13, 2013 | 9:25pm
Peter Jackson gets to the good stuff in The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug By A.A. Dowd December 12, 2013 | 6:00am
Some Velvet Morning is Neil LaBute’s stagiest film yet By Mike D'Angelo December 12, 2013 | 6:00am
In one of his last roles, Paul Walker counts down the Hours By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 12, 2013 | 6:00am
Caught In The Web finds the once-skilled Chen Kaige losing his touch By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 12, 2013 | 6:00am
The Crash Reel explores the suffering the X Games don’t show By John Teti December 12, 2013 | 6:00am
Disney celebrates selling out—and its own victories—with Saving Mr. Banks By A.A. Dowd December 12, 2013 | 6:00am
Donald Rumsfeld keeps his cool in The Unknown Known By Mike D'Angelo December 12, 2013 | 6:00am
American Hustle is another uproarious confection from David O. Russell By A.A. Dowd December 12, 2013 | 6:00am
Despite its title, Nuclear Nation takes an eye-level look at Fukushima By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 11, 2013 | 6:00am
Crave puts vigilante movies in its crosshairs By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 5, 2013 | 6:00am
What was the generic space thriller The Last Days On Mars doing at Cannes? By Mike D'Angelo December 5, 2013 | 6:00am
The Aussie thriller Swerve goes nowhere fast By John Teti December 5, 2013 | 6:00am
Penn & Teller chase a wild art-history theory in Tim’s Vermeer By Ben Kenigsberg December 5, 2013 | 6:00am
With Paradise: Hope, Ulrich Seidl ends his punishing trilogy on a high note By Mike D'Angelo December 5, 2013 | 6:00am
Twice Born draaaagggssss ouuuutttttt its mystery By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 5, 2013 | 6:00am
Out Of The Furnace dresses down a run-of-the-(steel)-mill genre film By A.A. Dowd December 5, 2013 | 6:00am
The Coens pit a folk singer against the world in Inside Llewyn Davis By A.A. Dowd December 5, 2013 | 6:00am
More hoop dreams go unfulfilled in Lenny Cooke By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 5, 2013 | 6:00am
White Reindeer is the least festive Christmas movie since Bad Santa By Mike D'Angelo December 5, 2013 | 6:00am
A Stone Roses documentary sticks to the sunny side By Josh Modell December 4, 2013 | 6:00am
Despite a game Idris Elba, Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom is biopic boilerplate By A.A. Dowd November 28, 2013 | 6:00am
The Punk Singer skirts hagiography in its celebration of a punk icon By Kyle Ryan November 28, 2013 | 6:00am
Frozen is another step forward for Disney princesses By Kevin McFarland November 27, 2013 | 6:00am
Bettie Page Reveals All is a great title, but a misleading one By Mike D'Angelo November 27, 2013 | 6:00am
There’s little of Langston Hughes in the inept musical Black Nativity By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 27, 2013 | 6:00am
Twenty-five years on, there’s reason to keep MST3K circulating By Erik Adams November 27, 2013 | 6:00am
Homefront is an action movie with lousy action By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 27, 2013 | 6:00am
Oldboy will feel old hat, but only to those who’ve seen the original By A.A. Dowd November 27, 2013 | 6:00am
Everyday is as mundane—and boring—as its title suggests By Mike D'Angelo November 21, 2013 | 6:00am
Michel Gondry chats with Noam Chomsky in Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy? By Ben Kenigsberg November 21, 2013 | 6:00am
Philomena comically pairs Steve Coogan and Judi Dench By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 21, 2013 | 6:00am

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