Originally slated to open in September 2012, Gangster Squad was delayed when the movie-theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, suddenly made…
Salesmen are typically depicted onscreen as the quintessential American phonies. That one set of phonies are being dramatically indicted by…
Tolstoy’s family epic has been smartly contoured to fit just more than two hours of screen time by Sir Tom…
The yammering about “Oscar gold” and Denzel Washington’s potential three-peat will soon reach a deafening pitch, but such noise can…
The trailer for this gargantuan adaptation of David Mitchell’s 2004 novel, directed by two Wachowski siblings and Tom Tykwer, looks…
It is difficult for residents of these sprawling United States to regard anything within the snug British Isles as truly…
Pope John Paul II made hell briefly unfashionable, but the administration of Benedict XVI has retrieved Gehenna from metaphorical downgrade…
What a strange thing for an actor to have been rehearsing one’s decline and death for so very long! Eastwood…
The bigger and better mousetraps of Paul W.S. Anderson
Julie Delpy’s sequel to her 2007 2 Days in Paris calls back many of the same characters and more than…
A documentary composed of vignettes of Europe by night, shot as though through the eyes of some inquisitive, unobtrusive, silent…
Screening the history of bootlegging in urban America led to the invention of a genre—the gangster film—but moviegoers have seen…
At one point in Killer Joe, based on Tracy Letts’ play, a hideously funny tabloid noir set on the outskirts…
Is there something intrinsic to these wide-net, “We’re all connected” ensemble movies that makes their authors think they need to…
Like a great number of films dealing with supernatural and extraterrestrial phenomena, Red Lights is a thriller in which suspense…
People always end up the way they started out. No one ever changes, one character says in Todd Solondz’s significantly…
As the general run of action films blithely defies the laws of gravity and consequence, what a pleasure to find…
In a gymnasium, a clandestine four-person group meets to discuss its name. One member suggests “Alps,” explaining: “The mountains of…
Aside from the incalculable human cost, World War II left in its wake property-rights issues whose repercussions are felt to…
The “name” connected to Lovely Molly is that of director Eduardo Sánchez, one of the perpetrators of 1999’s Blair Witch…
Though a shallow repository of ideas, considered as a work of sheer sensation, Dark Knight Rises has something to recommend….
We first encounter the subject of Crazy Eyes‘ character study mixing his drinks while damning the glittering void of L.A….
Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Elena is a tale of two apartments: a spacious chrome, glass, and marble luxury flat that might be…
Alex Ross Perry’s second feature, shot in 16mm black-and-white, is an offhand-picturesque road-trip movie with a mock-epic Northeastern itinerary. It’s…
I have seen many passable minds of my generation fritter away their best creative years working on tributes to the…
In one week, Frank (Joel Murray), a divorced, 50ish, glumly alcoholic white-collar worker, loses his job, becomes completely estranged from…
In this star-clogged pop-musical diversion (based on a jukebox musical built around an afternoon of VH1 Classics’ worth of ’80s…
