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Johnny Depp gets digitized in the silly sci-fi polemic Transcendence By A.A. Dowd April 17, 2014 | 5:00am
Woody Allen plays a pimp—yes, really—in John Turturro’s Fading Gigolo By Ben Kenigsberg April 17, 2014 | 5:00am
The thriller Proxy is at its best when throwing viewers for a loop By A.A. Dowd April 17, 2014 | 5:00am
Breaking The Waves was a major turning point in Lars Von Trier’s career By Mike D'Angelo April 16, 2014 | 5:00am
Heaven Is For Real preaches to the choir but sometimes looks good doing it By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 16, 2014 | 5:00am
Colin Firth confronts his demons—and an old foe—in The Railway Man By A.A. Dowd April 10, 2014 | 5:00pm
Simon Pegg steals Nick Frost’s first solo vehicle, Cuban Fury, with a cameo By Mike D'Angelo April 10, 2014 | 5:00am
Nicolas Cage reconnects with his serious side in David Gordon Green’s Joe By A.A. Dowd April 10, 2014 | 5:00am
Oddly, the sports comedy Draft Day borrows plays from a superhero flick By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 10, 2014 | 5:00am
Kristen Wiig struggles to play a quiet introvert in Hateship Loveship By Mike D'Angelo April 10, 2014 | 5:00am
Too often, Oculus simply reflects the scare tactics of better movies By A.A. Dowd April 10, 2014 | 5:00am
Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive is a vampire hangout movie By A.A. Dowd April 10, 2014 | 5:00am
Too much story and too many bright colors bring down Rio 2 By Kevin McFarland April 10, 2014 | 5:00am
Ingmar Bergman’s radical, influential Persona finally comes to Criterion By Mike D'Angelo April 9, 2014 | 5:00am
Shelved for years, Halle Berry’s Frankie & Alice now looks like a time capsule By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 4, 2014 | 6:21pm
With Watermark, the team behind Manufactured Landscapes lectures about H2O By Nick Schager April 3, 2014 | 5:00pm
Gina Carano administers the tropical beatdowns of In The Blood By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 3, 2014 | 4:00pm
The Galapagos Affair needlessly pads a fascinating historical mystery By Mike D'Angelo April 3, 2014 | 3:00pm
Scarlett Johansson is an alien seductress on the prowl in Under The Skin By A.A. Dowd April 3, 2014 | 5:00am
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is the best Marvel film since The Avengers By A.A. Dowd April 3, 2014 | 5:00am
Island Of Lemurs is gorgeous, but it’s barely half a movie By Kevin McFarland April 3, 2014 | 5:00am
Steve Coogan drags his shallow, fame-crazed Alan Partridge into theaters By Jesse Hassenger April 3, 2014 | 5:00am
As the title character of Dom Hemingway, Jude Law proves size does matter By Mike D'Angelo April 1, 2014 | 5:00am
Civil War-era drama The Retrieval could use a less televisual style By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 1, 2014 | 5:00am
Clumsy direction and clumsier plotting sabotage Sabotage By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 27, 2014 | 11:00pm
Silliness and profundity do battle, like the forces of Good and Evil, in Noah By A.A. Dowd March 27, 2014 | 10:40pm
It’s “no pain, no gain” for the desperate suckers of Cheap Thrills By Mike D'Angelo March 27, 2014 | 4:00pm
Guy Pearce and co-stars grapple with the clichéd “naturalism” of Breathe In By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 27, 2014 | 3:00pm
The rock doc Mistaken For Strangers isn’t really about The National’s music By Josh Modell March 27, 2014 | 2:00pm
The biopic Cesar Chavez is like a mural of a Wikipedia page By A.A. Dowd March 27, 2014 | 5:00am
There’s more variety in The Raid 2, but the carnage is still the main draw By Ben Kenigsberg March 27, 2014 | 5:00am
Criterion adds Harold Lloyd’s campus comedy The Freshman to its collection By Mike D'Angelo March 26, 2014 | 5:00am
God’s Not Dead is a mess even by Christian film standards By Emily St. James March 24, 2014 | 8:08pm
As its second volume reveals, Nymphomaniac is Lars on Lars By A.A. Dowd March 20, 2014 | 7:13pm
Sexual awakening can be a real chore, according to It Felt Like Love By A.A. Dowd March 20, 2014 | 5:00pm
Michael Pitt and Nina Arianda hatch a foolish scheme to Rob The Mob By Ben Kenigsberg March 20, 2014 | 4:00pm
James Franco invites more ridicule with the sporadically amusing Maladies By Mike D'Angelo March 20, 2014 | 3:00pm
Blood Ties casts Clive Owen and Billy Crudup in a ’70s-style crime opus By Jesse Hassenger March 20, 2014 | 2:00pm
Muppets Most Wanted has the feel, but not the look, of vintage Henson By Erik Adams March 20, 2014 | 5:00am
The documentary Anita reduces the Anita Hill story to one of generic uplift By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 20, 2014 | 5:00am
While it improves on the book, Divergent remains in The Hunger Games’ shadow By Kevin McFarland March 20, 2014 | 5:00am
Jodorowsky’s Dune looks back on the greatest sci-fi film never made By Ben Kenigsberg March 20, 2014 | 5:00am
An influence on Star Wars, The Hidden Fortress is Kurosawa’s most fun film By Mike D'Angelo March 19, 2014 | 5:00am
Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club is atypically competent—and boring By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 14, 2014 | 6:10pm
Enemy offers two Jake Gyllenhaals for the price of one, neither interesting By A.A. Dowd March 14, 2014 | 5:00pm
Need For Speed runs not on plot, but on a deep love for car culture By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 13, 2014 | 8:18pm
Only when transforming into a twofer does The Cold Lands find its footing By Emily St. James March 13, 2014 | 5:00pm
Matt Dillon and Kurt Russell plot a heist in The Art Of The Steal By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 13, 2014 | 3:00pm
The Missing Picture uses clay figurines to expose the horrors of history By A.A. Dowd March 13, 2014 | 3:00pm
Teenage ambitiously attempts to trace the origins of all youth culture By Ben Kenigsberg March 13, 2014 | 2:00pm
Talking heating vents are not scary—nor is anything else in Dark House By Mike D'Angelo March 13, 2014 | 2:00pm
For his directorial debut, Jason Bateman uses some very Bad Words By A.A. Dowd March 13, 2014 | 5:00am
Catherine Deneuve takes a road trip to nowhere in On My Way By Mike D'Angelo March 13, 2014 | 5:00am
Le Week-End may sound like Before Midnight, but don’t get your hopes up By Ben Kenigsberg March 13, 2014 | 5:00am
Veronica Mars is back, a little rusty but still worth the fanfare By A.A. Dowd March 13, 2014 | 5:00am
Before going eastbound and down, DGG made the great George Washington By A.A. Dowd March 12, 2014 | 5:00am
Haunt summons horror clichés but fails to bring them to life By A.A. Dowd March 7, 2014 | 6:00pm
Elijah Wood suffers some serious stage fright in the thriller Grand Piano By A.A. Dowd March 7, 2014 | 6:00pm
The first half of Lars von Trier’s erotic opus Nymphomaniac arrives Stateside By A.A. Dowd March 7, 2014 | 5:33pm
Mr. Peabody & Sherman toys with history—including that of its inspiration By Kevin McFarland March 6, 2014 | 6:00am
Annette Bening courts a doppelgänger in the blandly staged The Face Of Love By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 6, 2014 | 6:00am
Even more so than part one, 300: Rise Of An Empire is a rotten power fantasy By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 6, 2014 | 6:00am
Wes Anderson erects The Grand Budapest Hotel, a delightfully madcap caper By A.A. Dowd March 6, 2014 | 6:00am
There are no peaceful mangers in the dangerous Bethlehem of Bethlehem By Mike D'Angelo March 6, 2014 | 6:00am
The cast of In Fear may really be scared, but the feeling isn’t infectious By Mike D'Angelo March 6, 2014 | 6:00am
Stephen Chow applies his zany touch to Chinese classic Journey To The West By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 6, 2014 | 6:00am
The new documentary Particle Fever breaks down the “God particle” By Josh Modell March 6, 2014 | 6:00am
Steven Soderbergh proved his skills as a screenwriter with King Of The Hill By Mike D'Angelo March 5, 2014 | 6:00am
History Channel’s The Bible is cut into an equally chintzy film, Son Of God By Ben Kenigsberg February 28, 2014 | 12:00am
War is a slow-mo, speed-ramped hell in the Russian blockbuster Stalingrad By Jesse Hassenger February 28, 2014 | 12:00am
The Bag Man is two decades late to the knockoff-Tarantino party By Mike D'Angelo February 27, 2014 | 6:00am
The Lunchbox is a minor film about the minor moments of life By Ben Kenigsberg February 27, 2014 | 6:00am
Liam Neeson hunts a hijacker in the mile-high mystery Non-Stop By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 27, 2014 | 6:00am
The Oscar-nominated Ernest & Celestine is a hand-drawn animated delight By Mike D'Angelo February 27, 2014 | 6:00am
Kids For Cash looks past scandal to a real problem with the justice system By A.A. Dowd February 27, 2014 | 6:00am
The director of The Mummy brings Dean Koontz’s Odd Thomas to the screen By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 27, 2014 | 6:00am
The sumptuous Tess is Roman Polanski by way of David Lean By Ben Kenigsberg February 26, 2014 | 6:00am
Pompeii plays to the strengths and weaknesses of Paul W.S. Anderson By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 20, 2014 | 11:00pm
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

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