It would be easier to enjoy the madcap, stranger-than-fiction revelations of The Dog if it weren’t for the queasy awareness…
The underlying subject of many romantic comedies is chemistry, the mysterious rapport that draws people together despite whatever circumstances—being already…
If you were working from a menu of “crowd-pleasing movie conventions,” you could do worse than to mark these boxes:…
Watching two film directors play catch is not a guarantee of interest. Put Brett Ratner and Jean-Luc Godard in a…
Michel Gondry’s capacity for imagining wacky designs and adorable contraptions is so boundless he makes Santa’s elves look like dull-witted…
The giant apparatus required to create a 21st-century comic-book/sci-fi/action movie is expensive and unwieldy. Little wonder so many of these…
It begins as a science thriller: Researchers narrow in on absolute proof that the eye evolved in nature. Such confirmation…
Most of the conventional horror is contained in the first 10 minutes. A surgically precise evocation of a lonely gas…
The title Boyhood suggests something definitive, perhaps even a statement on the essential nature of growing up. Which is not…
The movie of the summer in 1996 should have been A Summer’s Tale, a wise and bittersweet romance by then-septuagenarian…
The new spiritual leader of a small religious sect in the American South has received the word. That is, the…
In this adaptation of the 2010 stage play by David Ives, Roman Polanski casts his wife in the main role…
Paul Haggis has had such a curious career, it’s no wonder he seems to make movies with no regard for…
The problems of squishing down a novel to fit a two-hour movie are familiar; when a complicated historical setting is…
Melissa McCarthy has earned her moment, and it is now. After scaring up an Oscar nomination for Bridesmaids and dragging…
For the last 25 years of his life, Roger Ebert was the most famous film critic in America. In his…
Alfred Hitchcock called them the “plausibilists”—those nitpickers who can’t suspend disbelief long enough to swallow a movie’s colorful premise and…
You wouldn’t think it’d be hard to find a single cup of coffee in all of Berlin, but this is…
The Rover Opens Fri., June 20 at Sundance and other Theaters. Rated R. 102 minutes. Like a Road Warrior writ…
Jersey Boys Opens Fri., June 20 at Sundance and other theaters. Rated R. 134 minutes. They didn’t have a member…
