Drama
Dallas Buyers Club

Matthew McConaughey shed 40 pounds for his role as Ron Woodroof, a promiscuous, hard-charging Texan in the 1980s who contracts …

Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
About Time

About Time is a maddeningly sweet film that, with some strategic edits, easily could have been more accessible to a …

Comedy
Last Vegas

Four acting legends go to Sin City to collect another paycheck, market a casino and create a salacious (but sometimes …

Drama
The Counselor

There’s no country for old sin. That’s what The Counselor tells us. So why does it show us so much …

Comedy
Jacka– Presents: Bad Grandpa

Bad Santa, Bad Teacher and now Bad Grandpa. At least these flicks let you know right up front that they’re …

Drama
The Fifth Estate

The Fifth Estate is a dense, ponderous (and sometimes foul) look at Julian Assange and the complex array of secrets …

Action/Adventure, Drama
Escape Plan

Seems like this one’s pretty expendable after all.

Drama, Horror
Carrie

This “classic” horror pic is reimagined for the social media generation—and made all the more disturbing.

Drama
12 Years a Slave

This is one of the most searingly intense portraits of slavery ever committed to film, exercising onscreen brutality to bludgeon …

Action/Adventure, Comedy
Machete Kills

The more people watch Machete kill, the more I wonder about the danger of forgetting that violence—real violence—isn’t at all …

Drama
Captain Phillips

The fierce finale of this story was broadcast around the world more than three years ago. But even so, the …

Action/Adventure, Drama
Runner Runner

Runner Runner is the readymade stuff of Saturday night movie dates, right? Wrong.

Drama
Gravity

It’s a harrowing spaceship-themed roller-coaster ride of a movie, and it’s not without its content concerns. But in the end, …

Drama
Parkland

John F. Kennedy was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital for treatment after he was shot in Dallas’ Dealey Plaza. Fifty …

Comedy, Romance
Don Jon

Don Jon tells us pornography is a terrible, addictive thing—while continuing to gawk and grin at that very terrible, addictive …