What opens as a slick, promising police procedural quickly jumps off the rails following an awfully efficient first act in Deliver Us From Evil. At around the h...
I like Melissa McCarthy and her trademarked hard-edged, scumbag persona in films. She's often the best part of things that don't work (Identity Thief) and those...
An impossibly long train, filled to capacity with the remnants of humanity, hurtles across an icy, unforgiving wasteland in Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer. Like its...
I don't believe it's a coincidence that the words "Inspired by true events" only appear onscreen at the end of Nothing Bad Can Happen. The move might be specifi...
In Michael Bay’s latest blaring entry of the inexplicably popular Transformers series, Optimus Prime and his sentient, shape-shifting robotic cohorts find that ...
The subject of well-deserved lamenting, we've seen a number of films subvert or subtly ridicule Hollywood's generic romantic comedy genre, but the parody to rei...
A timely New York story for any orientation, Love is Strange is Ira Sachs’ most accessible film, until its frustrating ending. Sachs, despite edging towards the...
Taking a page from its 2012 predecessor, crossed with a little Last Vegas and The Hangover, Think Like a Man Too delivers exactly what’d you'd expect; fortunate...
On the one hand, Clint Eastwood's stage-to-screen adaptation of Jersey Boys is an exercise in Broadway fidelity: rather than re-cast the project with establishe...
Gaspard (Melvil Poupaud) arrives off a ferry and bustles up the road to the vacation house he will reside in for the next few weeks. He goes out for a quiet dri...
