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They really should have found a way to get some Nirvana songs into As You Are
By A.A. Dowd February 23, 2017 | 9:50pm
The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichésBy Katie Rife February 23, 2017 | 6:00am
Jordan Peele shifts from comedy to horror with the smart, cutting Get Out
By A.A. Dowd February 23, 2017 | 6:00am
The Oscar-nominated My Life As A Zucchini is sweet, when it’s not being grim as hell
By Mike D'Angelo February 22, 2017 | 6:00am
The wannabe historical epic Bitter Harvest bears sappy fruit
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 22, 2017 | 6:00am
The Great Wall is a stupidly awesome eyefulBy Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 17, 2017 | 12:10am
Even with two strong stars, Lovesong is nearly as generic as its title
By A.A. Dowd February 16, 2017 | 1:45pm
Four female directors bring competing visions to the horror anthology XX
By Katie Rife February 16, 2017 | 6:00am
Charlie Day and Ice Cube face off in the feeble Fist Fight
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 16, 2017 | 6:00am
A Cure For Wellness is about as weird as modern Hollywood movies getBy A.A. Dowd February 16, 2017 | 6:00am
James Franco has directed some bad movies, but none as boring as In Dubious Battle
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 15, 2017 | 6:00am
Current events enhance the tragic power of immigrant drama From Nowhere
By Mike D'Angelo February 15, 2017 | 6:00am
Love means ignoring every red flag in the sloppy sequel Fifty Shades Darker
By Katie Rife February 9, 2017 | 4:50pm
David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike outshine the filmmaking in A United Kingdom
By Jesse Hassenger February 9, 2017 | 6:00am
Chapter 2 gives John Wick an irresistibly surreal follow-upBy Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 8, 2017 | 11:35pm
The Oscar-nominated Land Of Mine uncovers another World War II horror story
By A.A. Dowd February 8, 2017 | 6:00am
Kedi might look like a glorified cute cat video, but it has plenty to say about people, tooBy Mike D'Angelo February 8, 2017 | 6:00am
The Lego Batman Movie turns Bat mythology into a giant toyboxBy Jesse Hassenger February 6, 2017 | 9:55pm
Samara goes digital in Rings , but this is still just a faded copy of last decade’s scares
By A.A. Dowd February 3, 2017 | 9:21pm
A Journey To The West sequel suffers without Stephen Chow’s direction
By Jesse Hassenger February 3, 2017 | 6:15pm
Our hearts can’t handle the industrial-strength schmaltz of The Space Between Us
By A.A. Dowd February 2, 2017 | 8:34pm
The Little Mermaid gets a grotesque makeover in the horror-musical hybrid The Lure By Katie Rife February 2, 2017 | 6:00am
Dark Night is a mysterious elegy for the victims of the Aurora movie-theater shootingBy A.A. Dowd February 2, 2017 | 6:00am
Sorry War On Everyone , but it’s not the best time for a comedy about giddily corrupt cops
By Mike D'Angelo February 2, 2017 | 6:00am
Robert De Niro is more of a dirty grandpa than a king of comedy in The Comedian
By Jesse Hassenger February 2, 2017 | 6:00am
Oklahoma City would have really benefited from the long-form Made In America treatmentBy Mike D'Angelo February 1, 2017 | 6:00am
Strong direction can’t overcome story flaws in supernatural chiller Don’t Knock Twice
By Alex McLevy February 1, 2017 | 6:00am
A transgender YouTube star creates her own spotlight in This Is Everything
By Noel Murray January 31, 2017 | 6:00am
The Final Chapter is a weak retread of Resident Evil ’s greatest hitsBy Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 28, 2017 | 10:29pm
The Ring and The Grudge collide in the teen-friendly J-horror flick Sadako Vs. Kayako By Katie Rife January 27, 2017 | 11:01pm
Maybe next time A Dog’s Purpose can be reincarnated as a good movie
By Katie Rife January 26, 2017 | 6:00am
Asghar Farhadi puts his spin on Death Wish (sort of) in The Salesman
By Mike D'Angelo January 26, 2017 | 6:00am
Kung Fu Yoga is even sillier than its titleBy Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 26, 2017 | 6:00am
Behemoth finds poetry in China’s industrial badlandsBy Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 25, 2017 | 3:00pm
James Franco takes on the tricky role of an “ex-gay” activist in I Am Michael
By Noel Murray January 25, 2017 | 6:00am
xXx: Return Of Xander Cage is gloriously dumb, just like its titleBy Katie Rife January 20, 2017 | 5:00am
Michael Fassbender can’t make something fresh out of Trespass Against Us
By A.A. Dowd January 19, 2017 | 6:00am
The deliriously entertaining Split is M. Night Shyamalan gone wild
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 19, 2017 | 6:00am
The Resurrection Of Gavin Stone can’t find humor in good faithBy Jesse Hassenger January 19, 2017 | 6:00am
The gimmicky neo-noir Detour feels like a film school project
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 18, 2017 | 4:54pm
Suction cups, prog rock, wolves: Staying Vertical ’s beguiling oddities keep coming
By Mike D'Angelo January 18, 2017 | 6:00am
For the Iranian teen girls of Starless Dreams , life behind bars sadly beats the alternative
By Noel Murray January 17, 2017 | 6:00am
Jamie Foxx is a dirty cop in the lean, mean, and completely implausible Sleepless
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 13, 2017 | 8:15pm
No, you seriously shouldn’t think about The Bye Bye Man— or see it, for that matter
By A.A. Dowd January 12, 2017 | 7:44pm
A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks
By Jesse Hassenger January 12, 2017 | 6:00am
The Son Of Joseph is a droll parable from one of film’s great eccentricsBy Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 12, 2017 | 6:00am
The Crash is a poor man’s financial thrillerBy Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 11, 2017 | 6:00am
The only thing exciting about Alone In Berlin is the fact that it’s a true story
By Mike D'Angelo January 11, 2017 | 6:00am
No one talks and everyone moves in the adventurous dance/cinema hybrid Ma
By Mike D'Angelo January 11, 2017 | 6:00am
The Underworld franchise keeps sucking in Blood Wars
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 9, 2017 | 1:57pm
The Jackie Chan wartime caper Railroad Tigers never builds up steam
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 5, 2017 | 6:00am
Two lovers scratch the six-year itch in the insightful but undercooked Between Us
By A.A. Dowd January 5, 2017 | 6:00am
The Ardennes is just another stroll down the mean streets of crime cinemaBy Mike D'Angelo January 5, 2017 | 6:00am
Some prime Nic Cage overacting is just a distraction from Arsenal ’s faults
By Jesse Hassenger January 5, 2017 | 6:00am
Matthew McConaughey becomes both a rich and a poor man in Gold
By Jesse Hassenger December 30, 2016 | 6:00am
Ben Affleck gets serious about his pulp fiction in Live By Night
By Jesse Hassenger December 27, 2016 | 4:46pm
Adam Driver mellows out in Jim Jarmusch’s beautiful ode to ordinary living, Paterson
By A.A. Dowd December 21, 2016 | 6:00am
Passengers strains the considerable charms of Chris Pratt and Jennifer LawrenceBy Katie Rife December 20, 2016 | 12:15pm
Toni Erdmann is the 3-hour, achingly sad prankster comedy of the yearBy Mike D'Angelo December 20, 2016 | 6:00am
Patriots Day turns the Boston Marathon bombing into a mostly gripping proceduralBy Benjamin Mercer December 20, 2016 | 6:00am
Good performances can’t blast Hidden Figures out of prestige convention
By Jesse Hassenger December 20, 2016 | 6:00am
Martin Scorsese finally gets his solemn, powerful Silence off the ground
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 20, 2016 | 6:00am
Mike Mills writes more memoir-in-montage with the intoxicating 20th Century Women
By A.A. Dowd December 20, 2016 | 6:00am
What the hell are Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard doing in Assassin’s Creed ?
By Jesse Hassenger December 19, 2016 | 8:00pm
Denzel Washington shines in an inconsistent adaptation of August Wilson’s classic Fences
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 19, 2016 | 6:00am
Ken Loach overdoes the misery in the final stretch of his Cannes-winning I, Daniel Blake
By Mike D'Angelo December 19, 2016 | 6:00am
The animated karaoke bash Sing aims for cute but lands on irritating
By Jesse Hassenger December 19, 2016 | 6:00am
Fairy tales and family tragedy converge in the kid-friendly melodrama A Monster Calls
By Noel Murray December 19, 2016 | 6:00am
“Why Him? ” Bryan Cranston asks of James Franco in this sporadically funny hackwork
By Jesse Hassenger December 19, 2016 | 6:00am
Trollhunter follow-up The Autopsy Of Jane Doe is pretty, but a little stiffBy Katie Rife December 16, 2016 | 6:00am
Pedro Almodóvar directs his new melodrama, Julieta , like a tense thriller
By Mike D'Angelo December 16, 2016 | 6:00am
Neruda is possibly even bolder than Pablo Larraín’s other 2016 biopic, Jackie By Mike D'Angelo December 15, 2016 | 6:00am
Will Smith goes glum for the twisty treacle of Collateral Beauty
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 15, 2016 | 6:00am
The Bad Kids spends time with troubled teens who fall through the cracksBy Noel Murray December 15, 2016 | 6:00am
The year’s second Obama origin story, Barry , goes deeper into the president’s past
By A.A. Dowd December 14, 2016 | 6:00am
Rogue One is an adventure to Star Wars ’ dark sideBy Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 13, 2016 | 6:36pm
This magical melodrama has Two Lovers And A Bear , and not much else
By Mike D'Angelo December 12, 2016 | 6:00am
Michael Keaton shines in the fast-food business procedural of The Founder
By Jesse Hassenger December 9, 2016 | 6:00pm
Contract To Kill isn’t just bad—it’s Steven Seagal badBy Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 8, 2016 | 6:00am
Tons of funny stars can’t make this Office Christmas Party worth attending
By A.A. Dowd December 8, 2016 | 6:00am
Beyond The Gates grafts family drama onto a killer-board-game movieBy Katie Rife December 8, 2016 | 6:00am
The glorious La La Land anchors its daydream dazzle to real life
By A.A. Dowd December 8, 2016 | 6:00am
Burn Country builds off a true story, finding a strong message but weak dramaBy Mike D'Angelo December 7, 2016 | 6:00am
Michael Shannon and Imogen Poots are a good pair with nowhere to go in Frank & Lola
By Jesse Hassenger December 6, 2016 | 6:00am
I Am Not Your Negro turns an abandoned James Baldwin book into a brilliant docBy Noel Murray December 6, 2016 | 6:00am
The half-baked horror of Incarnate would have worked better in comic-book form
By Katie Rife December 2, 2016 | 7:45pm
Mia Hansen-Løve’s Things To Come finds the meaning of life in the little things
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 1, 2016 | 6:00am
An overqualified Shia LaBeouf can’t rescue Man Down
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 1, 2016 | 6:00am
Don’t be fooled by the artfulness: The Eyes Of My Mother is deeply fucked up
By A.A. Dowd December 1, 2016 | 6:00am
Nick Cave’s One More Time With Feeling is an intimate but not invasive portrait of grief
By Sean O'Neal December 1, 2016 | 6:00am
Natalie Portman reveals the artifice and the agony of Jackie in an arresting biopic
By A.A. Dowd December 1, 2016 | 6:00am
The Duelist is a ludicrous revenge fantasy without the funBy Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 30, 2016 | 6:00am
Run The Tide won’t score Taylor Lautner the prestige his Twilight costars have earnedBy Mike D'Angelo November 30, 2016 | 6:00am
Old Stone struggles to make drama out of China’s insane auto-accident lawsBy Mike D'Angelo November 29, 2016 | 6:00am
Bobby Sands’ historic hunger strike gets a thorough, thoughtful documentary
By Noel Murray November 29, 2016 | 6:00am
Mifune: The Last Samurai analyzes the universal appeal of a Japanese actorBy Noel Murray November 23, 2016 | 6:00am
A dormant director finally returns with the intoxicatingly strange Evolution
By Mike D'Angelo November 23, 2016 | 6:00am
Even with Jessica Chastain in the role, Miss Sloane is less cool than her movie thinks
By Jesse Hassenger November 23, 2016 | 6:00am
Two actresses chafe against the industry (and each other) in the jagged Always Shine
By Mike D'Angelo November 23, 2016 | 6:00am
Lion doesn’t quite make its true story roarBy Esther Zuckerman November 23, 2016 | 6:00am
Bad Santa 2 lazily repackages an old Christmas presentBy A.A. Dowd November 22, 2016 | 5:59pm
50 years later, Au Hasard Balthazar remains an unconventional masterpiece
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 22, 2016 | 3:12pm
Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard headline the rousingly old-fashioned war drama Allied
By A.A. Dowd November 22, 2016 | 6:00am
Warren Beatty’s Rules Don’t Apply offers an odd tribute to the myth of Howard Hughes
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 22, 2016 | 6:00am
Moana introduces yet another Disney Princess, but adds a bit of progressBy Jesse Hassenger November 21, 2016 | 6:00am
Tom Ford frames stories within stories in the postmodern Nocturnal Animals
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 17, 2016 | 8:10pm
Directorial debuts are rarely as confident, stylish, and devastating as Divines
By Mike D'Angelo November 17, 2016 | 6:00am
For a smart, funny teen movie, go to The Edge Of Seventeen
By Jesse Hassenger November 17, 2016 | 6:00am
