Comedy, Drama, Mystery/Suspense, Romance
Magic in the Moonlight

This is tricky territory to be sure, often more smoke and mirrors than serious substance.

Comedy, Romance
And So It Goes

Weighed down by foul language, inappropriate talk and sexuality unconnected to marriage, And So It Goes is neither as beautiful …

Drama
A Most Wanted Man

One of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s final acting turns, A Most Wanted Man, is a mature, measured look at the modern …

Comedy, Drama
Wish I Was Here

Writer/director/actor Zach Braff follows up Garden State with a wistful rumination on lessons yet to be learned … and foul …

Drama
Persecuted

It has its problems, both in terms of content and plot and even message. But its subject is a timely …

Comedy
Sex Tape

The idea for it was born in a bottle. The execution of it was filmed for the masses. The end …

Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, War
The Purge: Anarchy

It’s 2023 and time for another night of lawlessness, a night when murder is legal, our worst sins are condoned …

Drama
Boyhood

It seems to me that the moments people might spend watching this film could be more fully lived somewhere else.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, War
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes often feels exactly like what it is: a second installment, a step in …

Comedy
Tammy

This Melissa McCarthy vehicle is a one-dimensional sludge-fest of a film that once again sets up a big, sloppy, foulmouthed …

Drama, Horror
Deliver Us From Evil

The Exorcism of Emily Rose director Scott Derrickson again dives into the very heart of darkness as he explores how …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Kids, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, War
Transformers: Age of Extinction

It’s three years after the evil Decepticons demolished Chicago and the Autobots fearlessly fought them off. High time for yet …

Comedy, Drama, Romance
Begin Again

It’s a movie I’d like to recommend to friends. But when I start developing a bad case of writer’s cramp …

Comedy, Drama, Musical
Jersey Boys

While Eastwood’s hard work shows, the choices he made also come with a cost: Yes, a moral cost for those …

Comedy, Romance
Think Like a Man Too

Even in Las Vegas we can eventually get to a few sweet relational affirmations. But by then it’s been a …