Comedy, Drama
Inherent Vice

Inherent Vice is a whacked-out, confused, incoherent mess of a movie—and intentionally so.

Drama
Wild

By the end of this two-hour-but-oh-so-much-longer-feeling journey we too have some extra baggage to hoist, most of it visual.

Comedy
Horrible Bosses 2

Horrible Bosses 2 is desperately trying to be even more horrible than its predecessor. It’s really no more than that, …

Comedy
Dumb and Dumber To

The low-bar standard of inane and fart-focused giggles that Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels delivered some 20 years ago has …

Action/Adventure, Drama
John Wick

Never mind, then, that Film Freak Central says “the film sweats cool.” ‘Cause there’s no cinematic pot of gold at …

Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

A washed-up movie star tries to find a second life as a serious stage actor. But his superhero alter ego …

Drama, War
Fury

Brad Pitt’s World War II tank warfare movie rubs our cinematic faces in two hours of grimy, dirty, charred-flesh misery.

Drama, Musical
Whiplash

Andrew Neiman’s determined to become one of the greatest jazz drummers of all time. To get there he’ll have to …

Drama, Mystery/Suspense
Gone Girl

This adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s best-selling novel is filled with enough graphic content to earn the strongest warning Plugged In …

Drama, Horror
Annabelle

Threatened babies, ceiling-crawling demons, screeching occultists and bloody suicides do not a watchable movie make. Even in the horror genre.

Drama
Men, Women & Children

Men, Women & Children is not a fun movie. It is not a “good” movie. It is, for lots of …

Action/Adventure, Drama
The Equalizer

Based on an ’80s TV show, this Denzel Washington bloodbath wants to make sure it’s equal to its R rating.

Comedy, Horror
Tusk

It’s enough to make me wish the Internet itself had never been invented. But since it was, then all I …

Action/Adventure, Drama
A Walk Among the Tombstones

It’s tense, it’s moody and prickly, and it’s ultimately bloody and grim and deadly. Which, of course, finally leads us …

Comedy, Drama
This Is Where I Leave You

Can this crazy dramedy put the fun in dysfunction? Can pigeons in New York clean up their own messes?