Comedy
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

Pics like Anchorman 2 feel more like a Gatling gun barrage of joke-a-second absurdities and crude nonsense.

Comedy, Drama
American Hustle

This farcically dark dramedy is a fictionalized (and sensationalized) imagining of what might have gone on behind the scenes in …

Drama, Musical
Inside Llewyn Davis

Despite its angsty pretensions, Inside Llewyn Davis remains merely a story without a destination, a bleak portrait of a bleak …

Drama
Out of the Furnace

Entertainment? Not a lick. Inspiration? All burned up by the fire. Only loss and despair are left.

Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Best Man Holiday

Engaging with The Best Man Holiday feels like watching two totally different movies back to back.

Drama
Nebraska

There’s gold in them thar Nebraska hills. That’s what Woody thinks when he receives a Mega Sweepstakes Marketing mailing promising …

Drama, Mystery/Suspense
Serenity

Viewers will be hard-pressed to find much that’s redemptive as they wade through this thriller.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, 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.