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The Better Angels is too easily mistaken for Malick
By Mike D'Angelo November 6, 2014 | 4:00pm
Why Don’t You Play In Hell? invites you to a madcap cinematic playground
By Nick Schager November 6, 2014 | 3:00pm
21 Years is a nice, superfluous acknowledgment of Richard Linklater’s career
By Jesse Hassenger November 6, 2014 | 2:00pm
Ordinary life takes center stage in the smart, sensitive documentary Actress
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 6, 2014 | 6:00am
Eddie Redmayne plays Stephen Hawking in the neutered biopic The Theory Of Everything
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 6, 2014 | 6:00am
Jessabelle starts out scary but quickly gets waterlogged
By Katie Rife November 6, 2014 | 6:00am
Open Windows attempts to disguise a revenge movie in a voyeuristic techno-thriller
By David Ehrlich November 6, 2014 | 6:00am
The sparse Complete Jacques Tati showcases a singular comedic filmmaker
By Mike D'Angelo November 5, 2014 | 6:00am
Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is an uneven space odyssey
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 5, 2014 | 2:10am
The frictionless National Gallery takes museum visitors behind the scenes
By Mike D'Angelo November 4, 2014 | 5:05pm
The lurid amnesia thriller Before I Go To Sleep is smarter than it lets on
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 30, 2014 | 4:00pm
Jake Gyllenhaal finally gets his breakout with Nightcrawler
By Mike D'Angelo October 30, 2014 | 5:00am
Horns fumbles with its own powers, much like its hero
By Jesse Hassenger October 30, 2014 | 5:00am
Horror sequel ABCs Of Death 2 settles into its anthology format, offering only a few duds
By Keith Uhlich October 30, 2014 | 5:00am
The more straightforward Point And Shoot seems, the more deceptive it becomes
By David Ehrlich October 30, 2014 | 5:00am
With Goodbye To Language 3D , Jean-Luc Godard reinvents a new medium
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 29, 2014 | 3:00pm
The Vanishing is the original Gone Girl , with the truth learned at a price
By Mike D'Angelo October 29, 2014 | 5:00am
Revenge Of The Mekons is a sharp portrait of one of rock’s messiest bands
By Jason Heller October 28, 2014 | 5:00am
The Great Invisible humanizes the BP oil spill, but does little else
By Mike D'Angelo October 28, 2014 | 5:00am
Alain Resnais’ final film, Life Of Riley, is no swan song
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 24, 2014 | 6:45pm
Ouija isn’t pushing hard enough
By Katie Rife October 23, 2014 | 6:35pm
Internet-age romance The Heart Machine starts strong but loses the beat
By Jenni Miller October 23, 2014 | 5:00pm
Laggies is even less of a Lynn Shelton movie than Lynn Shelton’s last movie
By A.A. Dowd October 23, 2014 | 3:25pm
Force Majeure is a darkly comic study of male ego in collapse
By A.A. Dowd October 23, 2014 | 3:00pm
Brad Anderson goes back to the madhouse with Stonehearst Asylum
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 23, 2014 | 3:00pm
Juliette Binoche says 1,000 Times Good Night in a generic war-journalist drama
By Vadim Rizov October 23, 2014 | 2:00pm
John Hawkes can’t jazz up the jazzman biopic Low Down
By David Ehrlich October 23, 2014 | 2:00pm
Martin Scorsese presents a rote crime saga, Revenge Of The Green Dragons
By Mike D'Angelo October 23, 2014 | 1:00pm
The blind football player drama 23 Blast is as silly as it is sincere
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 23, 2014 | 5:00am
Gregg Araki chases respectability (again) with White Bird In A Blizzard
By Mike D'Angelo October 23, 2014 | 5:00am
The Edward Snowden doc Citizenfour is less film than monumental event
By David Ehrlich October 23, 2014 | 5:00am
Keanu Reeves shoots his way through the entertaining action fantasy John Wick
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 23, 2014 | 5:00am
Exists finds a Blair Witch alum failing at the genre he helped pioneer
By Keith Uhlich October 23, 2014 | 5:00am
You can finally own Thom Andersen’s cranky treasure, Los Angeles Plays Itself
By A.A. Dowd October 22, 2014 | 5:00am
Housebound devises a novel solution to a common haunted-house-movie problem
By Mike D'Angelo October 16, 2014 | 5:00pm
Felony is a commendably messy cop drama—until it isn’t
By Mike D'Angelo October 16, 2014 | 4:00pm
If you liked those other Nicholas Sparks movies, you’ll like The Best Of Me
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 16, 2014 | 3:05pm
Birdman puts Michael Keaton back under the shadow (and cowl) of a superhero
By A.A. Dowd October 16, 2014 | 3:01pm
Young Ones fails to populate its futuristic Western world with interesting characters
By Keith Uhlich October 16, 2014 | 3:00pm
Billy Crudup tunes up again in William H. Macy’s Rudderless
By Jesse Hassenger October 16, 2014 | 1:00pm
The campus comedy Dear White People takes racial stereotypes to school
By A.A. Dowd October 16, 2014 | 1:00pm
Addicted wants to teach you about sex addiction and get you off
By Jesse Hassenger October 16, 2014 | 5:00am
Jason Schwartzman goes tragically toxic in the great Listen Up Philip
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 16, 2014 | 5:00am
Kristen Stewart mans Guantanamo Bay in the politically evasive Camp X-Ray
By Vadim Rizov October 16, 2014 | 5:00am
Guillermo Del Toro presents The Book Of Life, a dull tale told beautifully
By Katie Rife October 16, 2014 | 5:00am
Studio Ghibli delivers a new masterpiece with The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya
By David Ehrlich October 16, 2014 | 5:00am
David Ayer’s gory Fury delivers cheap shocks
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 16, 2014 | 5:00am
Historical inaccuracies aside, My Darling Clementine is a Western for the ages
By Mike D'Angelo October 15, 2014 | 5:00am
A plot to blow up Paris is the dramatic crux of the stagy Diplomacy
By Nick Schager October 14, 2014 | 5:00am
Chris Pine leads a demented ride through L.A. excess in Stretch
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 9, 2014 | 5:00pm
Antonio Banderas gets his I, Robot on in the dreary sci-fi thriller Autómata
By Vadim Rizov October 9, 2014 | 4:00pm
Red Vs. Dead is vastly superior to the original Dead Snow
By Mike D'Angelo October 9, 2014 | 3:00pm
Her trumps Him in the double-bill version of The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby
By A.A. Dowd October 9, 2014 | 3:00pm
The architecture is more interesting than the drama in You’re Not You
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 9, 2014 | 1:00pm
Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is actually pretty good
By Katie Rife October 9, 2014 | 5:00am
Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall carry the generic legal drama The Judge
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 9, 2014 | 5:00am
The thrilling Whiplash demolishes the clichés of inspirational-teacher cinema
By A.A. Dowd October 9, 2014 | 5:00am
Bill Murray does his best with a sitcom role in St. Vincent
By Jesse Hassenger October 9, 2014 | 5:00am
One Chance gives a talent-show sensation the corny biopic treatment
By David Ehrlich October 9, 2014 | 5:00am
The Overnighters is a documentary as dramatic as any fiction film
By A.A. Dowd October 9, 2014 | 5:00am
Jeremy Renner chases leads in the overly familiar Kill The Messenger
By Jesse Hassenger October 9, 2014 | 5:00am
This Dracula should have remained Untold
By A.A. Dowd October 9, 2014 | 5:00am
Hindsight hasn’t been kind to the icky French “classic” Sundays And Cybèle
By Mike D'Angelo October 8, 2014 | 5:00am
Jazz legend Clark Terry finds a new protégé in Keep On Keepin’ On
By A.A. Dowd October 3, 2014 | 5:00am
Last Hijack uses animation to explore the past and present of a Somali pirate
By David Ehrlich October 2, 2014 | 5:00pm
Mathieu Amalric makes a puzzle out of a love affair with The Blue Room
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 2, 2014 | 5:00pm
Stephen King adapts a bad movie out of his own A Good Marriage
By Kiva Reardon October 2, 2014 | 4:00pm
John Cusack and Thomas Jane Drive Hard in a brainless action vehicle
By Jesse Hassenger October 2, 2014 | 3:00pm
Annabelle is a cheap (and cheaply effective) spin-off of The Conjuring
By A.A. Dowd October 2, 2014 | 5:00am
Harmontown documents the Community guru’s highs and lows
By Josh Modell October 2, 2014 | 5:00am
God only knows how they made a worse version of Left Behind
By A.A. Dowd October 2, 2014 | 5:00am
Gone Girl is a trick only David Fincher could pull off
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 2, 2014 | 5:00am
The director of Monsieur Lazhar makes an awkward English-language debut with The Good Lie
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 2, 2014 | 5:00am
Despite a game Edgar Ramírez, The Liberator lacks the vigor of Carlos
By Mike D'Angelo October 2, 2014 | 5:00am
Just in time for Halloween, Criterion releases horror classic The Innocents
By David Ehrlich October 1, 2014 | 5:00am
Nas doc Time Is Illmatic works best when telling the story of a family and a neighborhood
By Andrea Battleground September 30, 2014 | 5:00am
Men, Women & Children is an Internet Age cautionary tale
By Mike D'Angelo September 30, 2014 | 5:00am
Despite its unique subject matter, Lilting is mostly a misstep
By Vadim Rizov September 25, 2014 | 4:00pm
The Somali pirate flick Fishing Without Nets floats by on style
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky September 25, 2014 | 3:00pm
The admirably abrasive Hellaware takes aim at the ugliness of the art world
By Benjamin Mercer September 25, 2014 | 3:00pm
James Franco and Kate Hudson don’t so much play Good People as hapless morons
By Mike D'Angelo September 25, 2014 | 2:00pm
Advanced Style is a charming but thin ode to aged fashionistas
By David Ehrlich September 25, 2014 | 2:00pm
Miles Teller and Analeigh Tipton share a talky, uneven Two Night Stand
By Jenni Miller September 25, 2014 | 1:00pm
Kevin Kline battles the competing dark and cheery tones of My Old Lady
By Mike D'Angelo September 25, 2014 | 1:00pm
Training Day fans should lower their expectations for The Equalizer
By A.A. Dowd September 25, 2014 | 5:00am
A lack of Hendrix songs isn’t the big problem with Jimi: All Is By My Side
By Jesse Hassenger September 25, 2014 | 5:00am
The makers of Coraline return with another morbid marvel, The Boxtrolls
By A.A. Dowd September 25, 2014 | 5:00am
The cornball Pride is a crowd-pleaser that actually pleases
By A.A. Dowd September 25, 2014 | 5:00am
Viggo Mortensen is a cornered con man in The Two Faces Of January
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky September 25, 2014 | 5:00am
Roman Polanski’s Macbeth is a bloody, boldly cinematic take on the Bard
By Mike D'Angelo September 24, 2014 | 5:00am
Tracks is a meaningless journey through the Australian landscape
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky September 19, 2014 | 5:40pm
Simon Pegg is a tourist on a mission in Hector And The Search For Happiness
By A.A. Dowd September 19, 2014 | 5:00pm
Atlas Shrugged, Part III plays like a cheap knock-off of itself
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky September 19, 2014 | 3:50pm
Terry Gilliam tediously repeats himself with The Zero Theorem
By Mike D'Angelo September 18, 2014 | 5:00am
Fort Bliss is an uneven showcase for the steely talents of Michelle Monaghan
By Jesse Hassenger September 18, 2014 | 5:00am
The Maze Runner is a leaner, meaner outgrowth of the ongoing YA boom
By A.A. Dowd September 18, 2014 | 5:00am
This Is Where I Leave You stifles its great cast with sitcomish dramedy
By A.A. Dowd September 18, 2014 | 5:00am
Scott Frank and Liam Neeson struggle to elevate A Walk Among The Tombstones
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky September 18, 2014 | 5:00am
Kevin Smith’s Tusk is little more than the cinematic equivalent of a dare
By Mike D'Angelo September 18, 2014 | 5:00am
David Lynch’s Eraserhead remains one of cinema’s most unsettling nightmares
By Mike D'Angelo September 17, 2014 | 5:00am
The Guest expertly blends everything from The Terminator to Halloween to Drive
By A.A. Dowd September 16, 2014 | 5:00am
20,000 Days On Earth dredges the drama and depth of Nick Cave
By Jason Heller September 16, 2014 | 5:00am
Idris Elba stalks Taraji P. Henson in the suspense-free thriller No Good Deed
By Jesse Hassenger September 12, 2014 | 7:06pm
The son of a Hamas leader becomes an Israeli informant in The Green Prince
By Benjamin Mercer September 11, 2014 | 5:00am
Two-part romance The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby is cut into a single film
By Jesse Hassenger September 11, 2014 | 5:00am
Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader elevate the indie clichés of The Skeleton Twins
By A.A. Dowd September 11, 2014 | 5:00am
The thrillingly unconventional Bird People tells parallel tales of liberation
By Mike D'Angelo September 11, 2014 | 5:00am
The Drop puts Tom Hardy and the late James Gandolfini in hot water
By A.A. Dowd September 11, 2014 | 5:00am