About Time is a maddeningly sweet film that, with some strategic edits, easily could have been more accessible to a …
Matthew McConaughey shed 40 pounds for his role as Ron Woodroof, a promiscuous, hard-charging Texan in the 1980s who contracts …
There’s no country for old sin. That’s what The Counselor tells us. So why does it show us so much …
Bad Santa, Bad Teacher and now Bad Grandpa. At least these flicks let you know right up front that they’re …
The Fifth Estate is a dense, ponderous (and sometimes foul) look at Julian Assange and the complex array of secrets …
This is one of the most searingly intense portraits of slavery ever committed to film, exercising onscreen brutality to bludgeon …
This “classic” horror pic is reimagined for the social media generation—and made all the more disturbing.
The more people watch Machete kill, the more I wonder about the danger of forgetting that violence—real violence—isn’t at all …
Runner Runner is the readymade stuff of Saturday night movie dates, right? Wrong.
John F. Kennedy was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital for treatment after he was shot in Dallas’ Dealey Plaza. Fifty …
Don Jon tells us pornography is a terrible, addictive thing—while continuing to gawk and grin at that very terrible, addictive …
It is indeed a trip—an hour-and-a-half journey into a sonic maelstrom full of angst and anger, cacophony and coffins.
Innocents are in danger. Evil is afoot and running wild. An angry “hero” attempts to beat the truth out of …
Such is the power of Howard and Morgan’s storytelling that viewers are simultaneously attracted to and repelled by each.