I think it’s fair to say that the Fast and Furious series now constitutes director Justin Lin’s life work. Yes, other people directed the first two Read More

No one expected it to do so well. After all, it was a crude, gross out comedy in a cinematic sea overflowing with same. It starred Read More

You can’t con kids. Don’t promise them the animated adventures of cutesy little characters when you really intend to deliver a borderline adult action adventure. That’s Read More

If you’re a parent, you most likely see a lot of animated movies. I’m a parent as well as a film critic, which means that I pretty Read More

When To the Wonder, Terrence Malick’s latest cinematic tone poem, finally hit theaters last month, many wondered where previously announced stars Jessica Chastain, Rachel Weisz, Amanda Read More

How do you know that The English Teacher is going to be an exercise in overwrought post-modern indie hipster humor cliché? Why, from the moment we Read More

Aaron Eckhart is apparently one unlucky SOB. Not only does he fail to parlay his considerable indie cred (Thank You for Smoking, In the Company of Read More

I wish I could have written this column before the stupefyingly miscalculated Prometheus had put so many Scott apologists on their back foot, because to strike Read More

Call them underappreciated or unfairly dismissed, wrongfully panned or ahead of their time, but there are literal lists of films that can be considered “misunderstood.” After Read More

They say that people pull together during times of crisis. There is also a lingering fear that civilized society will fall apart when such a tragedy Read More

Sometimes, earnestness can overcome cliché. There are also cases where actors and their innate likeability can surpass the slights in a script. Such is the case Read More

The families at the center of Ben Wheatley’s first two films, the remarkable Kill List and Down Terrace, were built and sustained on violence and crime; Read More

To understand how memory is fluid, just ask two relatives to recall the same incident. More often than not, their recollections will have major discrepancies. Next, Read More

As the 11th year of Independent Film Festival Boston kicked off on the night of April 24, the city of Boston was still reflecting on a Read More

We can’t get enough of well done action. Heck, even mediocre thrills fill us with solid cinematic entertainment. From car chases to foot races, gun fights Read More

Throughout Iron Man 3, billionaire playboy philanthropist Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) suffers disorienting panic attacks – a direct result of his involvement in last summer’s Read More

The opening moments of Mark Mann’s Generation Um… cast a spell, or possibly a hex, of a vague nineties-ish aura. There’s some insistent dialogue between two Read More