Review: “The Revenant”
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's ("Birdman") fact-based frontier revenge saga "The Revenant" has an unnerving way of lodging itself in the back of one's mind for...
Review: “The Hateful Eight”
Quentin Tarantino is a self-indulgent as ever with his eighth (or ninth, depending on how you choose to catalog Kill Bill) motion picture, which...
Review: “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" isn't a perfect movie (none are), but it is a damn good one that delivers the goods. It pay...
Review: “In the Heart of the Sea”
Ron Howard's latest may strengthen the cliched argument that 'truth is stranger than fiction,' but it also suggests that it is often more boring...
Review: “Victor Frankenstein”
In all fairness to screenwriter Max Landis (Fantastic Four) and director Paul McGuigan (Sherlock), finding a fresh spin on Mary Shelley's classic novel is...
Review: “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2”
Even though the Hunger Games series feels a little tired at this point, it manages to end with a bang - which is a...
Review: “Spectre”
While Spectre is far from bad, it is likely to frustrate many fans, especially given its unenviable position of following on the heels of...
Review: “The Walk”
Biopics are often tributes to eccentrics with grandiose - and often unusual - obsessions. In the case of "The Walk," veteran filmmaker Robert Zemeckis...
Review: “Sicario”
"Sicario" is the moral-grey-zone crime drama for those of us who felt burned by season two of "True Detective". There are few heroes and...
Review: “Black Mass”
James "Whitey" Bulger was a real-life bogeyman in Boston during the 1970s and '80s. A vicious, possible psychotic, and seemingly untouchable criminal kingpin, his...
Review: “Everest”
Spectacle film-making with a purpose, "Everest" is a welcome throwback to the testorone-heavy adventure flicks of past decades. Based on the true story of...
Review: “The Martian”
Much like its protagonist, "The Martian" is a film that's captivating, inventive, resourceful and widely appealing. Not only does it deliver a long overdue...
Review: “American Ultra”
The epitome of the failed genre mash-up, "American Ultra" probably played better on paper than it does on the screen. The idea is sound...
Review: “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”
Adapting a TV series to film is usually a recipe for disaster, and dropping a dated spy-fi franchise in late summer between the twin...
Review: “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation”
It comes as a pleasant surprise that the series' cartoon spy-fi lunacy still plays, that leading man Tom Cruise can still play a convincing...
Review: “Pixels”
If there's one actor working today that is hated by seemingly every moviegoer and critic across the globe, it's Adam Sandler. There's a good...
Review: “Ant-Man”
Travel back to 2008 with me for a moment. Remember when "Iron Man" was released? Back then, Iron Man wasn't considered a top tier...
Review: “Trainwreck”
Amy Schumer and Judd Apatow do the world a long-overdue favor by zinging the hell out of the ubiquitous "Professional Woman Who Tries to...
Review: “Terminator Genisys”
Terminator Genisys, the latest installment of the humans vs. robots saga, riffs heavily on elements from the first two James Cameron-helmed movies in the...
Review: “Magic Mike XXL”
If there was ever a movie that didn't need a sequel it was Steven Soderberg's Magic Mike. That's not to say that Soderbergh's 2012...
Review: “Jurassic World”
Jurassic Park hit theaters way back in 1993 at just the right time - Michael Crichton's novel, which had become an instant bestseller three...
Review: “Tomorrowland”
It's slickly packaged, but below its surface Brad Bird's Tomorrowland is a preachy, chaotic jumble of themes and style at odds with itself from...
Review: “Slow West”
An alt-western with plenty of quirk but little bite, John MacLean's Slow West is a wasted opportunity kept afloat by a bevy of skilled...
Review: “Pitch Perfect 2”
Depending on the genre, it's easy to make a sequel from a successful first entry. All you have to do for an action movie,...
Review: “Mad Max: Fury Road”
A 70-year-old filmmaker who's spent the last 25 years of his career making comedies, dramas, and children's movies decides to revive the action franchise...
Review: “Drown”
The setting for Dean Francis' "Drown" is one ripe for a fascinating exploration of a very specific kind of masculinity - that of the...
Review: “Avengers: Age of Ultron”
More polished, but less cohesive as a whole, "Avengers: Age of Ultron" is ultimately a respectable and easily enjoyable sequel that maintains the quality...
Review: “Furious 7”
The strange franchise arc of the Fast and Furious series continues, though the returns have diminished slightly. That's to be expected of a franchise...
Review: “Get Hard”
The premise of "Get Hard" is a simple one. Will Ferrell is an oblivious, white, super rich Ivy League banker with zero street smarts....
Review: “Run All Night”
Liam Neeson shooting people. If that sounds like a familiar premise for a film, it's for good reason. Over the last seven years, ever...