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The Vow
A woman awakes from a coma with severe memory loss, forcing her husband to win her love all over again. Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum star.
Kimberley Jones, Review, Feb. 17, 2012
Bullhead
This Belgian nominee for this year's Best Foreign Language film Oscar is a startling crime drama about the bovine hormone mafia.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, Feb. 17, 2012
Deep in the Heart
The life story of Richard Wallrath, a former alcoholic who now funds scholarships for 4-H and FFA students, is told in this inspirational biopic.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, Feb. 17, 2012
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow
Director Sophie Fiennes gives us this elegant examination of the highly personal artwork of German painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer.
Marc Savlov, Review, Feb. 17, 2012
This Means War
Reese Witherspoon, Tom Hardy, and Chris Pine star in this romcom about two CIA agents who fall for the same gal.
Marc Savlov, Review, Feb. 17, 2012
The Cinema of Jean Rollin
Marc Savlov, Feb. 16, 2012
Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2012: Animation
Be ready for your office Oscar pool when it rolls around later this month.
Kimberley Jones, Review, Feb. 10, 2012
Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2012: Live Action
Good things come in small packages.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, Feb. 10, 2012
Star Wars: Episode One – The Phantom Menace
It's time to find out if a 3-D lightsaber is any more effective than 1999's 2-D model.
Marc Savlov, Review, Feb. 10, 2012
Pina
Wim Wenders celebrates the great, innovative, German dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch – in commanding 3-D, no less.
Kimberley Jones, Review, Feb. 10, 2012
Safe House
This hectic, deftly edited, and unexpectedly bracing thriller stars Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds.
Marc Savlov, Review, Feb. 10, 2012
A Separation
Nominee for a Best Foreign Language Oscar, this Iranian film is a smart, unusual, and highly involving story about making moral choices in the absence of villains.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, Feb. 10, 2012
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Michael Caine zips around on a giant bumblebee and Dwayne Johnson is a pectoral spectacle in this family-friendly, fantasy-island adventure tale.
Marc Savlov, Review, Feb. 10, 2012
One for the Money
Heigl plays bounty hunter Stephanie Plum in this adaptation of the first book in Janet Evanovich's bestselling crime series.
Kimberley Jones, Review, Feb. 3, 2012
The Grey
Bloodthirsty wolves and the brutalizing Alaskan elements conspire against a band of airplane crash survivors.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, Feb. 3, 2012
We Need To Talk About Kevin
Tilda Swinton stars as the mother of a teen rampage killer who has a complicated relationship with her son.
Marc Savlov, Review, Feb. 3, 2012
Big Miracle
Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski star in this fact-based story that shows us that whales are mammals too.
Kimberley Jones, Review, Feb. 3, 2012
Chronicle
Like a marriage of Cloverfield and Carrie, Chronicle blends faux-naif techniques with a teen telekinesis plot and gets fresh results.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, Feb. 3, 2012
The Innkeepers
With slow-burn shudders, Ti West's haunted-inn story provides a stellar model for creeping dread.
Marc Savlov, Review, Feb. 3, 2012
The Woman in Black
Daniel Radcliffe jumps from Hogwarts to this movie's haunted mansion where he stars as a young widower under siege from a malevolent ghost.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, Feb. 3, 2012
Underworld: Awakening
When humans sniff out the existence of vampires and Lycans, all hell breaks loose.
Kimberley Jones, Review, Jan. 27, 2012
Red Tails
George Lucas exec produced – and bankrolled – this action/drama about the historic Tuskegee Airmen.
Marc Savlov, Review, Jan. 27, 2012
Man on a Ledge
This semi-functional thriller tingles but never terrifies.
Marc Savlov, Review, Jan. 27, 2012
Albert Nobbs
This melancholy picture is distinguished by Glenn Close's vanishing act in the titular role.
Marc Savlov, Review, Jan. 27, 2012
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Ten years on, and attempts to dramatize 9/11 are still a sticky wicket. This adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s bestselling 2005 novel does itself no...
Kimberley Jones, Review, Jan. 20, 2012
Haywire
A technically exemplary but otherwise unremarkable piece of fisticuffs filmmaking.
Marc Savlov, Review, Jan. 20, 2012
Man on a Mission: Richard Garriott's Road to the Stars
Local doc about a space tourist is visually dazzling but narratively flat.
Kimberley Jones, Review, Jan. 20, 2012
Pariah
Pariah tells the specific but universal story of a black teenage girl who is a virginal lesbian, budding writer, and nonconformist.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, Jan. 13, 2012
Carnage
Roman Polanski directs this chamber piece about the demise of social decorum that's adapted from the play God of Carnage.
Kimberley Jones, Review, Jan. 13, 2012
Contraband
This routine story in which Mark Wahlberg plays a man forced to pull one last smuggling job stands out for its stylistic efficiency, stellar cast, and narrative restraint.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, Jan. 13, 2012
8 Murders a Day
The drug-related violence occurring in Juarez, Mexico, is the subject of this impassioned documentary.
Marc Savlov, Review, Jan. 13, 2012
The Iron Lady
Meryl Streep reunites with her Mama Mia! director to play Margaret Thatcher.
Kimberley Jones, Review, Jan. 13, 2012
Joyful Noise
Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton duke it out in the homespun world of gospel-music competition.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, Jan. 13, 2012
The Devil Inside
A woman tries to determine whether her incarcerated mother is criminally insane or demonically possessed.
Marc Savlov, Review, Jan. 13, 2012
The Divide
This is an apocalyptic narrative about a group of people holed up in a bomb shelter who are under attack from biohazard baddies.
Marc Savlov, Review, Jan. 13, 2012
Beauty and the Beast
The Disney classic returns to theatres with a 3-D update.
Kathleen Maher, Review, Jan. 13, 2012
Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du Cinéma
Few filmmakers would be able to mount a discourse on the 20th century's art and thought process as broad and extensive as this
Marjorie Baumgarten, Jan. 12, 2012
Beneath the Darkness
This thriller starring Dennis Quaid was filmed in Smithville and Bastrop.
Marc Savlov, Review, Jan. 6, 2012
The Darkest Hour
Five young people lead the advance against an alien attack in Moscow.
Marc Savlov, Review, Dec. 30, 2011
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Gary Oldman is John le Carré's unflappable spy, George Smiley, in this dandy espionage tale.
Kimberley Jones, Review, Dec. 23, 2011
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