Comedy
30 Minutes or Less

How long will you be in the theater before you wished you’d read this review first? How about 30 seconds …

Drama
Hustle & Flow

This gritty story of a pimp pursuing his hip-hop dream pulls no punches in the telling.

Comedy, Drama
Magic Mike XXL

What Magic Mike XXL ultimately offers is shallow escapism—intended to be as sexy and as tawdry as its pretty-boy leads

Comedy, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Ted 2

Ted 2 is a two-hour exercise in frustration, because you can see that behind all the foulness, MacFarlane can actually …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense
Safe House

Sometimes, apparently, the most dangerous place to be is in a safe house. It’s certainly not a movie theater. Is …

Drama, Mystery/Suspense
88 Minutes

Not even Al Pacino—with 88 days on his hands instead of only an hour and a half—can drag this depraved …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Horror
Straw Dogs

This remake of a violent 1971 “classic” serves up all the original’s rage and brutality with little of its reputed …

Drama
J. Edgar

The tangled tale of the FBI’s founding director gets a compassionate look from Leonardo DiCaprio and Clint Eastwood.

Comedy
Dope

We watch this world’s sense of morality implode, leaving us very little to pull from the ashes.

Horror, Mystery/Suspense
Joy Ride

A white-knuckler about two brothers who pull a prank on the wrong trucker.

Horror
A Nightmare on Elm Street

Freddy’s back. (Again.) And the kids are in for another round of undeserved hacking and slashing. It’s high time they …

Action/Adventure, Comedy
Spy

Melissa McCarthy takes on several new super-slick spy identities to save the world! Too bad she’s using the same super-lame …

Comedy
Entourage

Are we really supposed to appreciate yet one more showcase of the lifestyles of HBO’s rich and raunchy boy-men of …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense
Spy Game

After a distinguished career with the Central Intelligence Agency, Nathan Muir is just one day away from retirement.

Comedy, Drama, War
Charlie Wilson’s War

The Charlie Wilson of the film wallows in drinks and drugs. And he’s fond of loose women. So just how …