Cars 3

Third times not a charm for this franchise

"...3 begs, borrows, and steals bits and pieces from everything from Moneyball to virtually the entire Rocky Balboa series..."

June 16, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

CHIPS

The California Highway Patrol rides again

"...enthusiasts will likely enjoy the well-shot, high-speed chases, but everything else moves at a crawl. Slow children at play,..."

March 31, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Life

Astronauts discover that a wall won't keep out a new alien life form

"...of this sound the least bit familiar? It’s got everything but a mewing cat named Jonesy. The translucent, squid-like..."

March 31, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The LEGO Batman Movie

The Dark Knight returns to Legoland

"...Everything is Batman in this boisterously entertaining cousin of the..."

Feb. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Miss Sloane

Jessica Chastain plays a powerful D.C. lobbyist

"...passing a firearm regulation bill, the gun lobby throws everything they’ve got at her, including a congressional hearing...."

Dec. 9, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Almost Christmas

Home for the holidays (again)

"...Everything is just a little better than it needs to..."

Nov. 18, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Magnificent Seven

Revisionist remake stars a diverse rainbow coalition

"...a viable adversary and offers this enforcer of justice everything the town possesses to defeat the bad men. In..."

Sept. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bridget Jones's Baby

Third time's a charm, if a bit forgettable

"...since I saw it and I’ve already forgotten almost everything about it. Yet I remember it with something like..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Ghost Team

A group of losers stumble onto paranormal activity

"...is a first draft, the jokes are puerile, and everything is ludicrously telegraphed. The film is a perpetual series..."

Sept. 9, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Café Society

A lesser Woody Allen film, but not without its pleasures

"...as with all Allen movies, a cut above most everything else that passes for comedy these days. (Woody Allen..."

July 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two: After the Flood

When everything is gone, there is love, and the memory of love

"...still a time doused in speed and alcohol, in everything lost as we searched for found...."

July 8, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Chevalier

The latest playful foray from the Greek filmmaking avant-garde

"...contest over which of them is the “best in everything.” It’s a game with arbitrary rules in which each..."

June 17, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Overwrought take on DC Comics’ two most popular characters

"...in a super-slog that has just too much of everything. Specifically, I point to Jesse Eisenberg’s take on Lex..."

March 25, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Only Yesterday

Animated Japanese film about a woman reflecting on her childhood

"...really; longtime fans of Ghibli will recall that not everything works out well for everyone in the studio’s oeuvre...."

Feb. 26, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Triple 9

Grimy policier is an electrifying muddle with killer cast

"...sequence that pumps adrenaline into a movie in which everything is constantly on edge. As it turns out, the..."

Feb. 26, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Hail, Caesar!

The Coen brothers celebrate and eviscerate old Hollywood

"...of Forties/Fifties biblical epics and elastic musicals, while keeping everything spinning in the orbit of planet Coen, Hail, Caesar!..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

2016 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live Action

Form an opinion instead of guessing what will win this category

"...young daughter during a weekend visitation in Patrick Vollrath’s “Everything Will Be Okay.” Of those four live-action shorts, the..."

Jan. 29, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

The Force awakens, and a franchise reboots

"...1977) J.J. Abrams has crafted a rollicking hybridization of everything that made the first three films so thrillingly watchable...."

Dec. 18, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Danish Girl

Biopic about the first person to undergo sexual reassignment surgery

"...as Stephen Hawking in last year’s The Theory of Everything, the actor Eddie Redmayne delivers another physically transformational performance..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Miss You Already

Drew Barrymore and Toni Collette co-star as best friends facing crises

"...There’s very little dialogue, because the hands have said everything...."

Nov. 6, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Big Stone Gap

An Appalachian "spinster" learns the truth about her past

"...especially after she receives an open-after-my-death letter that undoes everything Ave thought she knew about her place in the..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Manhattan Romance

New York-set indie rom-com just goes through the motions

"...Romance, a slick but slight film that unfortunately resurrects everything that was problematically self-indulgent about so many New York..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Visit

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

"...forces Becca, Tyler, and the audience to instantaneously reconsider everything that has come before. The less said about that..."

Sept. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Irrational Man

Joaquin Phoenix plots the perfect crime in Woody Allen's new charmer

"...what he decides to do as a result changes everything. His subsequent actions restore vigor and purpose to his..."

Aug. 7, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Self/less

The film starts off as promising sci-fi, but turns into a disappointing shoot-’em-up

"...procedure called “shedding,” in which his intellect, memories, and everything that makes him Damian is transferred into a new,..."

July 10, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jurassic World

Bigger isn’t necessarily better

"...razored teeth and predatory rending lays predictable waste to everything and everyone around it, leading to a final, finally..."

June 12, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Spy

The Paul Feig/Melissa McCarthy comedy onslaught continues with a Bond parody

"...comedy onslaught that began with Bridesmaids continues to crush everything in its path with this femme-centric parody of James..."

June 5, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Furious 7

Furiouser and furiouser

"...though, and frankly, it doesn’t matter: Furious 7 delivers everything fans of the series could possibly desire and then..."

April 3, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Interactive: Does Future Crime Pay?

Marc Goodman on the creative ways criminals use new technology

"...When everything from your refrigerator to your DNA can be hacked,..."

March 15, 2015 SXSW Post by Dan Gentile

A la Mala

Mexican comedy about a woman who makes her livelihood flirting with other women's men.

"...in love with her and then dropping him cold. Everything is fine until, of course, Mala falls in love..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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