An unexpected franchise (both the hotel and the film), The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is essentially a gentle sitcom. It's a form of comfort food that de...
With more substance than a run-of-the-mill Todd Phillips comedy, Unfinished Business pairs a team that knows the territory of fatherhood well: writer Steven Con...
Academy Award-winning director Susanne Bier isn't without her misfires, especially when it comes to her American films. The Things We Lost in the Fire is a dry ...
A vanity project that is, above all, a mixed bag, Ryan Piers Williams has committed the sin of New York filmmakers of a certain status with access to crews and ...
In 2009, when the sci-fi breakthrough District 9 premiered, it didn’t seem likely, but now it’s looking like a sad, frustrating reality: Neill Blomkamp is basic...
In the wake of Rolling Stone’s sloppy journalism chronicling a campus rape at UVA, a trend of defection has painfully occurred: slut-shaming, victim blaming and...
I came upon a bittersweet revelation while watching Olivia Wilde wreak paranormal havoc on her co-workers in The Lazarus Effect: the tried-and-true horror trope...
You know that moment in a con movie where you're shown an elaborate sequence full of subtle background action without knowing exactly what's happening until the...
One look at Ray Wise, with his creased, worried face and troubled pale-blue eyes, and you’d believe he’s actually seen a hidden underground world of monsters. T...
The DUFF, an earnest high-school comedy that mostly feels like the dried-out, overheated leftovers of John Hughes, wants to deal in "the truth," using a ridicul...
