Denzel Washington's reliably creepy performance fails to elevate his latest action flick
By KARINA LONGWORTH,
February 09, 2012
"He's sooo hot," the woman sitting next to me at the screening of Safe House sighed to her friend as the film's opening images of Ryan Reynolds... More>>
The Vow, a full-bodied lunge for the heartstrings, has a humdinger of a premise, forcing its characters to face a question that most of us ask... More>>
Back from war, a mom and wife fights the consequences
By NICK PINKERTON,
February 09, 2012
Still wearing desert camo, Kelli (Linda Cardellini) comes back from a tour of duty in an unspecified country to the husband (Michael Shannon),... More>>
False scares and slow-pacing keep the suspense in Ti West's blood-soaked film
By NICK PINKERTON,
February 02, 2012
Ti West, the 34-year-old writer/director of The Innkeepers, has spent the past several years steadily toiling his way through the ranks of horror... More>>
The hero of the red-herring heist flick Man On a Ledge draws two reactions from the Manhattan throng beneath his 21st-floor perch on a midtown... More>>
The strange career trajectory of the star of 'The Grey'
By ERIC HYNES,
January 26, 2012
Halfway through last year's rough-and-tumble thriller Unknown, assassins come calling for a man who's suffering from amnesia (Liam Neeson). All... More>>
A beauty pageant swallowed up by the drug war in Mexico's Best Foreign Language Oscar candidate
By KARINA LONGWORTH,
January 19, 2012
Mexico's submission for the Best Foreign Language Oscar race, Gerardo Naranjo's Miss Bala spells out the destiny of its would-be beauty-queen... More>>
Jack Kaprielian and Kevin Derek bring the unscreened to OC
By MATT COKER,
January 12, 2012
Jack Kaprielian and Kevin Derek love movies, but they gravitate less toward Hollywood blockbusters and more toward short, foreign or independent... More>>
The godly union of Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah gets sullied
By MELISSA ANDERSON,
January 12, 2012
A holy hot mess of the sacred and the inane, Joyful Noise, about a small-town Southern gospel choir, lifts from Usher's "Yeah!" to give us this... More>>
Survivors of a nuclear disaster scratch one another's eyes out in Xavier Gens' latest
By NICK PINKERTON,
January 12, 2012
A mushroom cloud blooms over Manhattan at the opening of The Divide. We see it reflected in the tearful eyes of Eva (Lauren German), who'll spend... More>>
A search for a corpse is so much more in Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan's latest
By J. HOBERMAN,
January 05, 2012
A few days into 2012, and we already have a favorite for the New Year's best movie: Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia.
Turkey's... More>>
Dee Rees' portrait of a 17-year-old on her way out
By MELISSA ANDERSON,
December 29, 2011
The first 10 minutes of Dee Rees' funny, moving, nuanced, impeccably acted first feature, in which coming of age and coming out are inseparable,... More>>
