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 …

Action/Adventure, Drama
The Rover

Robert Pattinson sheds his twinkling skin and then shreds it in this bitter, brutal, dystopian drama.

Action/Adventure, Comedy
22 Jump Street

Cinematic offal that’s incredibly inane, tedious and foul; a dimwitted waste of time and mocker of morality that makes Dumb …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, War
Edge of Tomorrow

What happens when the action hero dies before he saves the day? And then he dies again? And again? Tom …

Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Fault in Our Stars

Should we find fault with a story devoted to the tragedies and triumphs of teens struggling with cancer? To their …

Comedy, Romance, Western
A Million Ways to Die in the West

There’s a general sense of cheeriness at play, often incongruously. But the pic ends up as nothing more than a …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Kids, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, War
Maleficent

Disney’s most memorable villain returns, bent on all manner of wickedness. What can possibly stop this “mistress of all evil”? …

Comedy, Romance
Blended

The exasperating result is a movie that gets so much right even as it insists on blending in so much …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
X-Men: Days of Future Past

Past, present and future are all up for grabs when Wolverine rips his way back to 1973 hoping to make …

Drama
The Immigrant

When Ewa arrives at Ellis Island in 1921, her sister’s sickness and her own grim sexual servitude strain her devout …

Comedy, Drama
Chef

If only I didn’t have end this review by talking about how all those ingredients combine to give us a …

Comedy
Neighbors

In the spirit of going out of my way—way out of my way—to find something good to say about Neighbors, …