Magic in the Moonlight
This is tricky territory to be sure, often more smoke and mirrors than serious substance.
Sex Tape
The idea for it was born in a bottle. The execution of it was filmed for the masses. The end of it was an obscene embarrassment.
The Purge: Anarchy
It’s 2023 and time for another night of lawlessness, a night when murder is legal, our worst sins are condoned and society rids itself of its most “problematic” members.
Wish I Was Here
Writer/director/actor Zach Braff follows up Garden State with a wistful rumination on lessons yet to be learned … and foul language already spewed. It’ll make you say, “Wish I Wasn’t Hearing This!”
Persecuted
It has its problems, both in terms of content and plot and even message. But its subject is a timely one, well worth putting much more thought into than most of us usually do.
Boyhood
It seems to me that the moments people might spend watching this film could be more fully lived somewhere else.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes often feels exactly like what it is: a second installment, a step in between, a transitional fossil.
Tammy
This Melissa McCarthy vehicle is a one-dimensional sludge-fest of a film that once again sets up a big, sloppy, foulmouthed and sometimes cruel stereotype.
Deliver Us From Evil
The Exorcism of Emily Rose director Scott Derrickson again dives into the very heart of darkness as he explores how we might ultimately escape it.
Transformers: Age of Extinction
It’s three years after the evil Decepticons demolished Chicago and the Autobots fearlessly fought them off. High time for yet another big ol’ robot rumble! Or maybe not.