There is only one situation in Two Days, One Night—no subplots, no vast canvas. But filmmaking brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc…
People who don’t like musicals always fall back on the Realism Argument, contending that in real life we don’t start…
In the wintry air of A Most Violent Year, a would-be business magnate named Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac) sports a…
Because Desiree Akhavan has been cast in a recurring role on the new season of Girls, her visibility and pop-culture…
There was a time when American Sniper would’ve been an ideal Oliver Stone project—a story of the battlefield and the…
The most suspenseful scene in Ava DuVernay’s Selma does not depict the dramatic 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, nor…
Whatever else it achieves in offering observations about friendship and love in the modern age, Life Partners is definitive on…
It sounds like something that fell from a branch of the Tarantino tree: Surely a movie promoting itself as an…
The rustic hotel at the heart of Winter Sleep is a strikingly unfamiliar place: Located somewhere in Turkey’s Anatolian countryside,…
The first minutes of Rocks in My Pockets unfold in standard-issue animation of the European variety: cutesy (yet grown-up) drawings,…
Writing a year-end movie wrap-up is a useful way of acknowledging quality, but it’s also a handy method for capturing…
Movie stars come from the unlikeliest places. Take the case of one Mark Wahlberg, for example. In youth, he was…
The crucial masterstroke of Into the Woods is that the fairy-tale happy ending comes halfway through the action. What exactly…
The Imitation Game proves that a ripping true story can survive even the Oscar-bait effect. This is a profile of…
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Opens Wed., Dec. 17 at Cinerama and other theaters. Rated PG-13. 144…
Elsa & Fred Opens Fri., Dec. 19 at Sundance Cinemas. Rated PG-13. 97 minutes. Fifty years ago Shirley MacLaine was…
Annie Opens Fri., Dec. 19 at Meridian and other theaters. Rated PG. 119 minutes. Musical-theater purists can be almost as…
Top Five Opens Thurs., Dec. 11 at SIFF Cinema Egyptian and other theaters. Rated R. 101 minutes. If Chris Rock’s…
The Great Invisible Opens Fri., Dec. 12 at Harvard Exit. Rated PG-13. 92 minutes. Is a documentary an information-delivery system…
Exodus: Gods and Kings Opens Fri., Dec. 12 at Majestic Bay and other theaters. Rated PG-13. 146 minutes. The gulf…
