Snipers are supposed to be solitary types. Patient, waiting. So it makes sense that for Clint Eastwood’s brooding film about Chris Kyle, the Navy SEAL sniper Read More

It seems fitting that less than a week after the release of Annie, a crushingly inept movie musical, Into the Woods arrives to show audiences how movie Read More

All Margaret Keane wanted to do was paint. She escaped her horrible first marriage to feel some of the freedom her muse mandated. Unfortunately, the 1950s Read More

What has happened to our country? Where did it all go so very, very wrong? A little over 50 years ago, people took to the streets Read More

Nobody would accuse cinema’s hard-bitten neo-realist duo Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne of playing to modern trends. But with their newest film it’s hard not to Read More

When it arrives in theaters this December 25, Ava DuVernay’s Selma won’t just be one of the best films about the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in Read More

For us film critics, the Night at the Museum franchise has been more like days in cinematic hell. With the talent-free Shawn Levy proving over and over Read More

It’s kind of disheartening to sit here on the brink of lightly bashing the unceasingly-promoted Annie, which is actually quite sweet and well meaning, and which represents Read More

You can tell by the look on his face, this isn’t going to end well. A dour and disheveled man, his suit ill-fitting and his mouth Read More

One last time. Finally, thankfully, mercifully, one last time. After 13 years and six films, the cinema’s immersion into J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth comes to a Read More

It’s Christmastime, that moment once a year where we pretend to practice peace on Earth and goodwill towards all mankind by binge-eating the wrong foods and Read More

Let’s face it — no modern moviegoer is heading out to see Exodus: Gods and Kings to become filled with the Holy Spirit. Heck, they’re not Read More

There’s no denying Chris Rock’s stand-up status. He’s that rare comedian that can be both serious and scatological and still get his point across. He’s succeeded Read More

It began with the revue, became even more memorable in both vaudeville and burlesque. At the turn of the last century, it was nothing more than Read More

If Wild were just about a woman triumphing over nature, it wouldn’t be much of an experience. There are natural dangers aplenty, of course, in this Read More