Beyond the Lights
So is this a girl-empowering music-biz exposé, an impassioned Nicolas Sparks-style romance or a heavy-breathing leerapalooza? Well, let’s just say you get an eyeful of all three.
Dumb and Dumber To
The low-bar standard of inane and fart-focused giggles that Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels delivered some 20 years ago has long since been eclipsed.
Foxcatcher
Based on a true story about Olympic-level wrestling, Foxcatcher looks for love and affirmation but finds only anger and jealousy.
The Theory of Everything
It’s a rare thing for a movie to feel incredibly inspiring and yet deeply depressing all at once.
Interstellar
Earth is dying, and mankind throws a Hail Mary pass through a providential wormhole in this grandly scientific, often confusing Christopher Nolan space epic.
Nightcrawler
Self-made journalist Louis Bloom is a bad person doing bad things … to make a good point? Does that make for a good movie?
Before I Go to Sleep
Before I Go to Sleep’s real problem is not one of scope and craft as much as wince-worthy moments betwixt the plot points.
John Wick
Never mind, then, that Film Freak Central says “the film sweats cool.” ‘Cause there’s no cinematic pot of gold at the end of this brain-splattered, seven-shades-of-blood-red rainbow.
Laggies
To lag, meaning to fall or stay behind. That’s what Keira Knightley’s done in this quirky, indie dramedy. But the fix may be worse than the failure to launch in this case.
Ouija
Here we have yet another woeful byproduct of that much ballyhooed partnership between Hasbro and Universal Pictures.