A very, very loose and highly symbolic adaptation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void…
Set up on a blind date by their married best friends, Holly (Katherine Heigl) and Messer (Josh Duhamel) show each…
Paul (Ryan Reynolds), an American truck driver for a KBR-type contractor in Iraq, is captured in an insurgent attack and…
Directed by Casey Affleck, I’m Still Here purports to document Joaquin Phoenix’s high-profile “retirement” from acting, his alleged attempt to…
“What really matters is what you like, not what you are like,” says John Cusack in High Fidelity, a very…
A loose adaptation of a Jeffrey Eugenides story called “Baster,” The Switch stars Jennifer Aniston as Kassie, who, having failed…
So one-sided that it nearly validates what the right says about Hollywood’s liberal crusaders, Oliver Stone’s essay/lecture/travelogue is propaganda in…
Salt, famously the Spy Flick Rewritten for Angelina Jolie After Tom Cruise Dropped Out, has been publicized as the cinematic…
Coco Chanel. Igor Stravinsky. Two iconoclasts whose contributions to their respective artistic fields left an indelible mark on the 20th…
Blonde, pillow-topped, and spineless, Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) has a secure fact-checking job and is engaged to Victor (Gael García Bernal),…
An old-fashioned adventure epic weighed down by overly simplistic, quasi-populist dialogue, Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood plays like a rousing love…
Tired of being mugged by high-school thugs in a Manhattan that’s notably scummier than the real thing, the teen hero…
“We are not these people! We are a boring couple from New Jersey!” complains Claire (Tina Fey) to her husband,…
Blonde, wide-eyed Christine (Sylvie Testud, giving a great Mona Lisa smile) stands out amid the crowd of ill and otherwise…
Those expecting action-movie pyrotechnics from Bradley Rust Gray’s The Exploding Girl will be disappointed—the only loaded weapon in this indie…
The only Third Reich filmmaker to be tried for crimes against humanity (he was acquitted, twice), the notorious Veit Harlan’s…
There’s a stunt element to the casting of The Runaways: a punked-up, barely-legal Kristen Stewart and a still-underage, barely-dressed Dakota…
Jimmy (Bruce Willis), a swinging-dick career cop threatened by his ex-wife’s new husband (Jason Lee), tries to sell a treasured…
Garry Marshall’s embarrassingly star-studded, stiff rom-com is a kind of greatest-hits compilation, painted over with layers of gloss, as if…
