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Will Forte’s career reinvention continues in the indie drama Run & Jump
By Kyle Ryan January 23, 2014 | 6:00am
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Joe Swanberg’s 24 Exposures toys around with genre conventions
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 23, 2014 | 6:00am
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Gloria is the rare film to explore fiftysomething female sexuality
By Mike D'Angelo January 23, 2014 | 6:00am
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Sex and danger are entwined in the erotic thriller Stranger By The Lake
By Ben Kenigsberg January 23, 2014 | 6:00am
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It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is indulgent, messy fun
By Mike D'Angelo January 22, 2014 | 6:00am
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Devil’s Due does nothing new with the demon-baby trope
By Mike D'Angelo January 17, 2014 | 5:19pm
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit keeps its espionage bland
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 16, 2014 | 9:09pm
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Brisk in weather and pacing, Reasonable Doubt is otherwise of little merit
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 16, 2014 | 6:00am
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The Nut Job is a tedious cookie-cutter family film
By Kevin McFarland January 16, 2014 | 6:00am
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At its best, buddy comedy Ride Along channels the spirit of Jerry Lewis
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 16, 2014 | 6:00am
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Big Bad Wolves may be the rare revenge movie that’s actually anti-revenge
By A.A. Dowd January 16, 2014 | 6:00am
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Hirokazu Kore-Eda stumbles with the Lifetime-worthy Like Father, Like Son
By Mike D'Angelo January 16, 2014 | 6:00am
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Michael Mann launched his film career with the confident, arresting Thief
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 15, 2014 | 6:00am
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Nazi youth could be swell people too, argues the 5-hour Generation War
By Ben Kenigsberg January 15, 2014 | 6:00am
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Only fans of phoniness will get anything out of The Legend Of Hercules
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 10, 2014 | 9:02pm
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Cheap symbolism abounds in the Sundance indie The Truth About Emanuel
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 9, 2014 | 6:00am
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Banshee Chapter is like a lost, mediocre episode of The X-Files
By A.A. Dowd January 9, 2014 | 6:00am
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Zoë Bell’s tough talents are wasted on the brainless Raze
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 9, 2014 | 6:00am
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In Bloom proves that there’s tension left in Chekhov’s gun
By Mike D'Angelo January 9, 2014 | 6:00am
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A germophobe romances an agoraphobe in the twisty The Best Offer
By Mike D'Angelo January 9, 2014 | 6:00am
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Not even Bryan Cranston can save the generic crime film Cold Comes The Night
By Josh Modell January 9, 2014 | 6:00am
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Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project is uneven but illuminating
By Mike D'Angelo January 8, 2014 | 6:00am
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The Marked Ones is a Paranormal Activity movie in name only
By A.A. Dowd January 3, 2014 | 9:00pm
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The yakuza sequel Beyond Outrage is less urgent than its predecessor
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 3, 2014 | 9:00pm
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Justin Bieber’s Believe is another manipulative PR stunt
By Kevin McFarland December 27, 2013 | 6:00am
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47 Ronin is a singularly strange blockbuster
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 27, 2013 | 6:00am
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Leave it to the Weinsteins to turn August: Osage County into awards bait
By Ben Kenigsberg December 24, 2013 | 6:00am
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Lone Survivor comes dangerously close to glorifying warfare
By A.A. Dowd December 24, 2013 | 6:00am
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Only when embracing fantasy does The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty shine
By Ben Kenigsberg December 24, 2013 | 6:00am
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Against the odds, Grudge Match finds emotional truth in clichés
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 24, 2013 | 6:00am
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Martin Scorsese tackles excess with excess in The Wolf Of Wall Street
By A.A. Dowd December 24, 2013 | 6:00am
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The Invisible Woman revisits a footnote in the love life of Charles Dickens
By Mike D'Angelo December 24, 2013 | 6:00am
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All The Light In The Sky is another of Joe Swanberg’s “small” movies
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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Clio Barnard moves gracefully to fiction with The Selfish Giant
By Mike D'Angelo December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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The Past is another emotionally complex triumph from Asghar Farhadi
By Mike D'Angelo December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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Producers dumb down Walking With Dinosaurs for movie screens
By A.A. Dowd December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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Quentin Dupieux offers another dose of comedic surrealism with Wrong Cops
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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There are hits and misses aplenty in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
By Ben Kenigsberg December 18, 2013 | 6:00am
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Joaquin Phoenix courts his computer in the beguiling Her
By A.A. Dowd December 18, 2013 | 6:00am
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Robert Altman’s Nashville is no attack on the city
By Mike D'Angelo December 18, 2013 | 6:00am
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By the standards of the series, A Madea Christmas is a modest improvement
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 13, 2013 | 9:25pm
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Peter Jackson gets to the good stuff in The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug
By A.A. Dowd December 12, 2013 | 6:00am
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Some Velvet Morning is Neil LaBute’s stagiest film yet
By Mike D'Angelo December 12, 2013 | 6:00am
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In one of his last roles, Paul Walker counts down the Hours
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 12, 2013 | 6:00am
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Caught In The Web finds the once-skilled Chen Kaige losing his touch
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 12, 2013 | 6:00am
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The Crash Reel explores the suffering the X Games don’t show
By John Teti December 12, 2013 | 6:00am
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Disney celebrates selling out—and its own victories—with Saving Mr. Banks
By A.A. Dowd December 12, 2013 | 6:00am
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Donald Rumsfeld keeps his cool in The Unknown Known
By Mike D'Angelo December 12, 2013 | 6:00am
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American Hustle is another uproarious confection from David O. Russell
By A.A. Dowd December 12, 2013 | 6:00am
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Despite its title, Nuclear Nation takes an eye-level look at Fukushima
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 11, 2013 | 6:00am
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Crave puts vigilante movies in its crosshairs
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 5, 2013 | 6:00am
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What was the generic space thriller The Last Days On Mars doing at Cannes?
By Mike D'Angelo December 5, 2013 | 6:00am
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The Aussie thriller Swerve goes nowhere fast
By John Teti December 5, 2013 | 6:00am
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Penn & Teller chase a wild art-history theory in Tim’s Vermeer
By Ben Kenigsberg December 5, 2013 | 6:00am
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With Paradise: Hope, Ulrich Seidl ends his punishing trilogy on a high note
By Mike D'Angelo December 5, 2013 | 6:00am
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Twice Born draaaagggssss ouuuutttttt its mystery
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 5, 2013 | 6:00am
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Out Of The Furnace dresses down a run-of-the-(steel)-mill genre film
By A.A. Dowd December 5, 2013 | 6:00am
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The Coens pit a folk singer against the world in Inside Llewyn Davis
By A.A. Dowd December 5, 2013 | 6:00am
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More hoop dreams go unfulfilled in Lenny Cooke
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 5, 2013 | 6:00am
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White Reindeer is the least festive Christmas movie since Bad Santa
By Mike D'Angelo December 5, 2013 | 6:00am
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A Stone Roses documentary sticks to the sunny side
By Josh Modell December 4, 2013 | 6:00am
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Despite a game Idris Elba, Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom is biopic boilerplate
By A.A. Dowd November 28, 2013 | 6:00am
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The Punk Singer skirts hagiography in its celebration of a punk icon
By Kyle Ryan November 28, 2013 | 6:00am
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Frozen is another step forward for Disney princesses
By Kevin McFarland November 27, 2013 | 6:00am
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Bettie Page Reveals All is a great title, but a misleading one
By Mike D'Angelo November 27, 2013 | 6:00am
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There’s little of Langston Hughes in the inept musical Black Nativity
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 27, 2013 | 6:00am
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Twenty-five years on, there’s reason to keep MST3K circulating
By Erik Adams November 27, 2013 | 6:00am
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Homefront is an action movie with lousy action
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 27, 2013 | 6:00am
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Oldboy will feel old hat, but only to those who’ve seen the original
By A.A. Dowd November 27, 2013 | 6:00am
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Everyday is as mundane—and boring—as its title suggests
By Mike D'Angelo November 21, 2013 | 6:00am
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Michel Gondry chats with Noam Chomsky in Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy?
By Ben Kenigsberg November 21, 2013 | 6:00am
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Philomena comically pairs Steve Coogan and Judi Dench
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 21, 2013 | 6:00am
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Narco Cultura explores Mexican drug cartels and those who glorify them
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 21, 2013 | 6:00am
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Roman Polanski’s 1971 racing doc, Weekend Of A Champion, gets yanked out of obscurity
By Mike D'Angelo November 21, 2013 | 6:00am
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Vince Vaughn tries his hand at “feel good” with Delivery Man
By A.A. Dowd November 21, 2013 | 6:00am
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John Carpenter’s grimy, propulsive Assault On Precinct 13 arrives on Blu-ray
By Nick Schager November 20, 2013 | 6:00am
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In all ways except originality, Catching Fire is a superior sequel
By A.A. Dowd November 19, 2013 | 6:31pm
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The Best Man Holiday
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 14, 2013 | 6:06am
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Nebraska
By A.A. Dowd November 14, 2013 | 6:05am
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Charlie Countryman
By Ben Kenigsberg November 14, 2013 | 6:04am
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The Great Beauty
By Mike D'Angelo November 14, 2013 | 6:03am
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Faust
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 14, 2013 | 6:02am
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Sunlight Jr.
By Mike D'Angelo November 14, 2013 | 6:01am
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Dear Mr. Watterson
By A.A. Dowd November 14, 2013 | 6:00am
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Nosferatu
By Mike D'Angelo November 13, 2013 | 6:00am
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Thor: The Dark World
By A.A. Dowd November 7, 2013 | 6:09am
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The Wind Rises
By Mike D'Angelo November 7, 2013 | 6:08am
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The Book Thief
By Ben Kenigsberg November 7, 2013 | 6:07am
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The Armstrong Lie
By Ben Kenigsberg November 7, 2013 | 6:06am
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Great Expectations
By Mike D'Angelo November 7, 2013 | 6:05am
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At Berkeley
By Ben Kenigsberg November 7, 2013 | 6:04am
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Go For Sisters
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 7, 2013 | 6:03am
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How I Live Now
By A.A. Dowd November 7, 2013 | 6:02am
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Ass Backwards
By Kyle Ryan November 7, 2013 | 6:01am
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Birth Of The Living Dead
By A.A. Dowd November 7, 2013 | 6:00am
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La Notte
By Mike D'Angelo November 6, 2013 | 6:00am
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A Case Of You
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 6, 2013 | 6:00am
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Diana
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 31, 2013 | 8:20pm
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Ender's Game
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 31, 2013 | 5:10am
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Last Vegas
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 31, 2013 | 5:09am
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Free Birds
By Kevin McFarland October 31, 2013 | 5:08am
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About Time
By A.A. Dowd October 31, 2013 | 5:06am
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Man Of Tai Chi
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 31, 2013 | 5:05am
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Big Sur
By Mike D'Angelo October 31, 2013 | 5:04am
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Sal
By Ben Kenigsberg October 31, 2013 | 5:03am
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Last Love
By Mike D'Angelo October 31, 2013 | 5:02am
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Mr. Nobody
By Ben Kenigsberg October 31, 2013 | 5:01am
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The Broken Circle Breakdown
By Kyle Ryan October 31, 2013 | 5:00am