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Stray Dogs is a tough but beautiful vision of life on the fringe
By A.A. Dowd September 11, 2014 | 5:00am
Like its title character, Dolphin Tale 2 swims around in circles
By Katie Rife September 11, 2014 | 5:00am
The Identical is an evangelical Elvis parable—no, really
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky September 4, 2014 | 5:00am
The sex comedy Wetlands is wonderfully filthy and wildly perverse
By Jenni Miller September 4, 2014 | 5:00am
The blues-man drama Memphis is as ramshackle as its star, Willis Earl Beal
By Vadim Rizov September 4, 2014 | 5:00am
The Longest Week is a derivative but promising feature debut
By Mike D'Angelo September 4, 2014 | 5:00am
Indie rock star Stuart Murdoch channels his inner Richard Lester in God Help The Girl
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky September 4, 2014 | 5:00am
The Strange Color Of Your Body’s Tears tests the limits of stylistic showboating
By A.A. Dowd September 4, 2014 | 5:00am
The bordertown drama Frontera seems caught between storytelling styles
By Jesse Hassenger September 4, 2014 | 5:00am
Last Days In Vietnam offers an engrossing chronicle of the fall of Saigon
By Mike D'Angelo September 4, 2014 | 5:00am
With Vengeance Is Mine , Imamura leaves the motives of a murderer mysterious
By David Ehrlich September 3, 2014 | 5:00am
Despite a uniquely creepy setting, As Above, So Below scares up no new thrills
By A.A. Dowd August 29, 2014 | 5:00pm
Life Of Crime plays like a Jackie Brown origin story
By A.A. Dowd August 28, 2014 | 5:00am
Kevin Kline hammily impersonates Errol Flynn in The Last Of Robin Hood
By Vadim Rizov August 28, 2014 | 5:00am
The Congress is a science-fiction fiasco of Southland Tales variety
By Mike D'Angelo August 28, 2014 | 5:00am
The WWII miserablism of The Notebook is hard to handle
By Benjamin Mercer August 28, 2014 | 5:00am
The November Man is the James Bond movie Roger Donaldson never got to make
By Jesse Hassenger August 27, 2014 | 5:00pm
Starred Up is a brutal, but profoundly humane, look at prison life
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 27, 2014 | 5:00am
Metro Manila is a Nolanesque take on life and death in a big city slum
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 22, 2014 | 5:00am
A Dame To Kill For is a hollow shell of the original Sin City
By A.A. Dowd August 21, 2014 | 9:38pm
Humble sports movie When The Game Stands Tall is easier to appreciate than enjoy
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 21, 2014 | 5:00am
Matthew Weiner’s Are You Here amounts to less than the sum of its parts
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 21, 2014 | 5:00am
Chloë Grace Moretz deserves better than generic YA adaptations like If I Stay
By A.A. Dowd August 21, 2014 | 5:00am
The Possession Of Michael King is possessed by the spirit of better horror movies
By Jesse Hassenger August 21, 2014 | 5:00am
Even fans of the out-and-proud Star Trek alum may be bored by To Be Takei
By Vadim Rizov August 21, 2014 | 5:00am
Catherine Breillat unwisely conceals that Abuse Of Weakness is autobiographical
By Mike D'Angelo August 21, 2014 | 5:00am
Love Is Strange updates Make Way For Tomorrow for a rocky new economic age
By A.A. Dowd August 21, 2014 | 5:00am
To explain the true premise of The One I Love would be to spoil its fun
By Mike D'Angelo August 21, 2014 | 5:00am
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! is one of Pedro Almodóvar’s ickiest movies
By Mike D'Angelo August 20, 2014 | 5:00am
The literary adaptation Winter In The Blood is as confused as its drunken hero
By Nick Schager August 19, 2014 | 5:00am
There’s Herzogian humor to the eco doc The Expedition To The End Of The World
By David Ehrlich August 19, 2014 | 5:00am
The Expendables 3 embraces the franchise’s inner Saturday morning cartoon
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 14, 2014 | 7:57pm
Philippe Garrel tackles another doomed romance in Jealousy
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 14, 2014 | 5:00pm
True to its title, the horror film Septic Man is total crap
By Jesse Hassenger August 14, 2014 | 5:00pm
The documentary Dinosaur 13 offers a one-sided take on a legal quagmire
By A.A. Dowd August 14, 2014 | 5:00pm
Korean provocateur Kim Ki-duk plays castration for laughs in Moebius
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 14, 2014 | 5:00am
The Trip To Italy is just more of the same from Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon
By Mike D'Angelo August 14, 2014 | 5:00am
The Giver has been reshaped to resemble the modern YA hits it inspired
By A.A. Dowd August 14, 2014 | 5:00am
Life After Beth has a zombie Aubrey Plaza…and that’s about it
By Mike D'Angelo August 14, 2014 | 5:00am
The indie comedy Frank conceals Michael Fassbender’s face, but not his talent
By A.A. Dowd August 14, 2014 | 5:00am
Let’s Be Cops plays like an R-rated New Girl spinoff
By A.A. Dowd August 13, 2014 | 7:02pm
John Cassavetes’ final major work, Love Streams, is an independent movie like no other
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 13, 2014 | 5:00am
Step Up All In reassembles the franchise ranks for an all-star sequel
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 8, 2014 | 7:27pm
Fifi Howls From Happiness depicts the final days of an Iranian artist
By Benjamin Mercer August 7, 2014 | 5:00pm
About Alex shows why a millennial Big Chill makes little sense
By Mike D'Angelo August 7, 2014 | 4:00pm
The Dog tells the true, even weirder story of Dog Day Afternoon
By Josh Modell August 7, 2014 | 3:00pm
James Cameron embarks on another Deepsea Challenge, this one in front of the camera
By David Ehrlich August 7, 2014 | 2:00pm
The Hundred-Foot Journey celebrates bold flavor, which it doesn’t possess
By A.A. Dowd August 7, 2014 | 5:00am
There’s fun to be had from the phony found-footage twisters of Into The Storm
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 7, 2014 | 5:00am
Michael Bay preserves the origins, but not the fun, of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
By A.A. Dowd August 7, 2014 | 5:00am
Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan star in the charming, but derivative, What If
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 7, 2014 | 5:00am
Take a crash course in Werner Herzog with an essential new Blu-ray set
By A.A. Dowd August 6, 2014 | 5:00am
Web Junkie examines World Of Warcraft addiction and how it’s treated in China
By Mike D'Angelo August 5, 2014 | 5:00am
Brendan Gleeson is a priest on borrowed time in the grimly comic Calvary
By A.A. Dowd July 31, 2014 | 5:00pm
Sundance winner Rich Hill takes a close look at impoverished Missouri youth
By A.A. Dowd July 31, 2014 | 5:00pm
Guardians Of The Galaxy puts the swagger back into space opera
By A.A. Dowd July 31, 2014 | 5:00am
James Franco mines Cormac McCarthy for cheap shocks in Child Of God
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 31, 2014 | 5:00am
Finding Fela! casts clear light on the life of Afrobeat icon Fela Kuti
By Jason Heller July 31, 2014 | 5:00am
Get On Up is a cagey, shapeless James Brown biopic
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 31, 2014 | 5:00am
Patient Zero is a perfunctory third chapter in the Cabin Fever series
By Nick Schager July 31, 2014 | 5:00am
Catherine Keener goes quiet in War Story , a drama of stillness and solitude
By Jesse Hassenger July 31, 2014 | 5:00am
The Kill Team weeps for a jailed soldier, but are its cries of injustice justified?
By Mike D'Angelo July 31, 2014 | 5:00am
The Strange Little Cat is a formally, conceptually audacious debut
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 31, 2014 | 5:00am
The reunion drama The Big Chill uses golden oldies to pump up the nostalgia
By Mike D'Angelo July 30, 2014 | 5:00am
Dwayne Johnson stars in a revisionist Hercules
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 25, 2014 | 6:02pm
Rob Reiner keeps And So It Goes out of Last Vegas territory—but just barely
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 24, 2014 | 5:00am
A Most Wanted Man is a minor but satisfying sendoff for Philip Seymour Hoffman
By A.A. Dowd July 24, 2014 | 5:00am
Some improvisational projects, like Happy Christmas , should just be scrapped
By Mike D'Angelo July 24, 2014 | 5:00am
Luc Besson’s Lucy is pure lunacy
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 24, 2014 | 5:00am
Uncomfortable parallels sour Woody Allen’s frothy Magic In The Moonlight
By Ben Kenigsberg July 24, 2014 | 5:00am
Despite loftier aims, Pickpocket works best when focusing on its titular craft
By Mike D'Angelo July 23, 2014 | 5:00am
Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen relive their youth in Very Good Girls
By Jesse Hassenger July 22, 2014 | 5:00am
Filmed theater is a mistake, even when the play is Ibsen’s great Master Builder
By Mike D'Angelo July 22, 2014 | 5:00am
The Purge: Anarchy is a bigger (and comparatively better) battle royal
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 17, 2014 | 5:00am
Sex Tape puts Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel through safe sitcom paces
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 17, 2014 | 5:00am
Yes, I Origins is about eyes—and that wordplay is where the obviousness begins
By A.A. Dowd July 17, 2014 | 5:00am
Music can treat dementia says the glorified fundraising effort Alive Inside
By Mike D'Angelo July 17, 2014 | 5:00am
Even for a Michel Gondry film, Mood Indigo suffers from whimsy overload
By A.A. Dowd July 17, 2014 | 5:00am
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