The Lure

The Polish Mermaid musical you never knew you needed

"...including a father-cum-showrunner (Malanowicz) and aging chanteuse mother (Preis). Attractive, young, and ostensibly human, the duo join the act,..."

April 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Beauty and the Beast

A live-action remake of the Disney film

"...This live-action reboot of Walt Disney Studios' watershed 1991 animated film..."

March 24, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

“Get Signed Up Now!”

Doggett highlights enrollment deadline for Affordable Care Act

"...for enrolling in health insurance under the Affordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”) is Tuesday, Jan. 31, at 12 midnight...."

Jan. 30, 2017 News Post by Michael King

Split

Another twisted (and twisty) offering from M. Night Shyamalan

"...of his former mojo. Using minimal locations and few characters, Split relies on James McAvoy’s central performance and Michael..."

Jan. 20, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Underworld: Blood Wars

Vampires vs. werewolves (again)

"...It’s a shame that talented Brit actor Kate Beckinsale’s tombstone will probably read “aka Selene, Death..."

Jan. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

One Piece Film: Gold

Japanese anime insanity

"...stepped into the middle of a universe with pre-existing characters, backstories, and impenetrable motivations, you have. I’m a newcomer..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Shut In

Naomi Watts stars in ho-hum thriller

"...guess is that although she’s one of the greatest actors of our time, she’s also over 40, and because:..."

Nov. 18, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tyler Perry's Boo! A Madea Halloween

Tricks and treats with Tyler Perry

"...time of year to revive Madea, a moldering comic character first unveiled in the early Aughts, as the novelty..."

Oct. 28, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

We Are X

Japanese rockers are the best band you've never heard of

"...focused his wandering gaze on the recording and cultural impact of the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main St. in..."

Oct. 28, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ouija: Origin of Evil

This horror sequel is vastly superior to its cheesy precursor

"...captures some of the eerie, planchette panache of the actual board game in its mid-Sixties through mid-Seventies heyday. Vastly..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Long Way North

Lovely French-Danish production is an old-fashioned animated movie

"...sensory experience. On the downside, the same intricacy can distract from the story at hand, particularly when it feels..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Disappointments Room

Kate Beckinsale moves into a haunted house

"...shocks other than cheap ones, and a series of third-act revelations (kinda/sorta) revolving around the previous owner of the..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years

Ron Howard tackles the Beatles

"...short order, the Beatles went from a popular club act in Hamburg and Liverpool to international darlings and everybody..."

Sept. 9, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Zero Days

Chilling cyber warfare doc explores the Stuxnet virus

"...world we live in than we, the audience, may actually want to believe, but quoth the Mulder, “The truth..."

July 22, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Kiwi comedy offers a wealth of belly laughs

"...to capture them, and randomly encountering a cast of characters exemplified by a brilliant cameo from Rhys Darby as..."

July 15, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Almost Holy

Doc chronicles one pastor's mission to keep Ukrainian kids off the street

"...films like 2011’s The Interrupters and Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing and its sequel The Look of Silence,..."

June 3, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Spectre

Spectre brings the spectacle, but it lacks a soul

"...the film never advances past that giddy high. Bond extracts from that man a ring engraved with an octopus..."

Nov. 6, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Labyrinth of Lies

German postwar drama looks at national psyche scarred by the Nazi era

"...procedural, wherein Radmann and his small team (Radmann is actually a composite of several attorneys) sift through warehouses of..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Bone Tomahawk

Hybrid Western/horror film starring Kurt Russell is a brutal delight

"...Carpenter-era Russell should shriek with glee at the grizzled actor’s perfectly calibrated performance in this horror-Western. Bone Tomahawk is..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Keeping Room

Slow-burn thriller is a Western with a feminist slant

"...then follow her back to the farm for a third-act showdown...."

Oct. 2, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Intern

Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro star in savvy but irksome film

"...save-to-shopping-cart vision of aspirational living. (Come for the A-list actors, but leave mulling a farmhouse sink.) The Intern’s main..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Perfect Guy

Unimaginative woman-in-distress thriller

"...a family, so Leah dumps him in the first act and randomly meets Carter (Ealy), a sexy IT security..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Visit

M. Night Shyamalan blends comedy and horror in his latest offering

"...found-footage movie – although it was backed by Paranormal Activity overseers Blumhouse Productions – as it is a completed..."

Sept. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Being Evel

Evel Knievel rides again in this retrospective doc

"...extraordinaire, and the original, iconic template for every lunatic act of gravity-defying bravado-cum-stupidity – had an outsized influence on..."

Aug. 21, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Look of Silence

Getting personal with Indonesia's bloody past in follow-up to The Act of Killing

"...sequel of sorts to his much-lauded 2012 doc The Act of Killing – in which the director trained his..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Masss

"...communicate with the dead, and must decide whether to act on their advice...."

June 5, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

White God

This Hungarian film is the Battleship Potemkin of canine mutiny

"...story is so compelling, you forget you’re watching dogs act; the craftsmanship of this film is that stunning. There..."

April 10, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Mortdecai

Johnny Depp fails to unleash his inner Peter Sellers in this globetrotting spy comedy.

"...eyebrow. He’s a black hole sucking in the superior actors in his orbit like McGregor, Paltrow, Goldblum, all more..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Wedding Ringer

Kevin Hart and Josh Gad crank out this aggressively dumb and un-embarrassingly sophomoric wedding comedy.

"...moments – only not nearly enough of them. In fact it’s more a single moment – one great extended..."

Jan. 23, 2015 Movie Review by Louis Black

Into the Woods

The Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine musical, a pastiche of classic fairy tales turned on their heads, gets a thoroughly cinematic workout.

"...crowd-pleasing happy endings you’re expecting. But when the third act takes things one step further and somberly rewrites those..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

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