With a kind of quiet reserve, Big Eyes is a rare effort from the Tim Burton that plays it straight. The director wisely keeps the Burton-esque touches to a mini...
There are certain figures in history that are so endlessly studied, referenced, and revered that their name alone conjures the narrative of an entire movement o...
Opening with cold, narrative efficiency, Rupert Wyatt’s remake of Karel Reisz’s 1974 film is a stylish mess. Mark Wahlberg stars as Jim Bennett, a down-on-his-l...
Who would've thought a movie complete with Katy Perry and fecal jokes could cause so much brouhaha? The Interview did just that by royally pissing off North Kor...
Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken, the true-life story of Olympic winner Louis Zamperini’s World War II travails, is a film that specializes in visions both mythic and ...
The involvement of Disney on any adaptation of beloved source material can't help being a double-edged sword. On the one hand their clout and financial backing ...
In a season of Oscar-bait one of the most daring films of the year can be found in that perhaps sole multiplex in your region that frequently dedicates a screen...
There’s a moment early in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies that captures all of the restless and vivid immediacy that director Peter Jackson has freque...
In Day for Night, François Truffaut explored the toils and troubles of a film shoot: his fight with actors, justifying his vision to skeptical journalists, and ...
Ridley Scott and the biblical epic seem like an intriguing proposition, but Exodus: Gods and Kings, the latest take on the story of Moses, proves to be a vacuou...
