Sort of a concert film and sort of a making-of-the-concert, this backstage peek at the Hurricane Sandy fundraiser will disappoint music fans and documentary lovers...
There’s a difference between presenting problems — the death of the middle class, the treatment of veterans — and actually saying something about them
The big-screen adaptation of Tracy Letts’ hit play is never dull, but it plays more like a camp-classic-in-waiting than a Pulitzer-winner
Despite the presence of Justin Long and Tyler Labine, this indie veers clumsily from farce to pathos, equally incompetent at either comedy and drama
The Grim Reaper proves an unwelcome narrator in well-intentioned adaptation of Markus Zusak's popular World War II novel
Writer-director Jason Reitman, adapting the novel by Joyce Maynard, has a bad habit of telling us what he’s already shown us in this sappy romance
Prickly author P.L. Travers’ battles with Walt Disney over the making of “Mary Poppins” are fun to watch, but it’s really all about art and...
Proactive princesses and catchy tunes make for a winning combo in this updating of Hans Christian Andersen's "Snow Queen"
If the Japanese animation master makes good on his threat to retire, he’s going out on top with this gorgeous, haunting biopic
Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson voice two turkeys who travel back in time to change the menu at the Plymouth Colony -- but it’s just...
“Last Vegas” lives and dies by the aggregate charm and charisma of its stars, since that’s pretty much all it has to offer
Director Alex Gibney approaches his subject with the same sort of emotional detachment that Armstrong brings to his confessions
“Ender’s Game” is a rare example of filmmaking with a scalpel at a scale that usually demands a hatchet
Ridley Scott's latest movie starts promisingly but turns into yet another movie about a drug deal gone bad
Johnny Knoxville even adds a bit of a plot in this "Borat"/"Little Miss Sunshine" blend
Filmmakers haven’t put a lot of new ideas between Chris Hemsworth and his hammer, but there are enough thrills and laughs to keep it aloft
Payne’s latest meets at an unexpectedly powerful crossroads between hazy optimism and clear-eyed nostalgia
Slight lampoon is smoothly directed but short on original insight -- and a woeful misuse of Evan Rachel Wood
There’s nothing particularly wrong with director Kimberly Peirce’s update, but it adds nothing to the 1976 Brian De Palma classic
The "Harry Potter" gay sex scene might attract the curious, but this is a sensual exploration of youthful passion and artists coming of age
Spike Jonze spins a futuristic love story for the age of Siri, with Joaquin Phoenix falling for Scarlett Johansson as the voice of his operating...
Adapted with unironic earnestness by Julian Fellowes, the latest adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic stage play effectively chronicles young love but doesn’t transcend it
Writer-director Richard Curtis forgets to add the wit that made the sap of “Love Actually” and “Notting Hill” tolerable
Director Steve McQueen seems determined to bury any lingering "Gone With the Wind-ian" notions of the antebellum South as a place of charm and grace
Stiller's "Mitty" tries so hard that his adventures -- both real and imagined-- are neither intriguing nor amusing
Robin Weigert is a stifled lesbian housewife turned Manhattan escort in Stacie Passon’s sexy and provocative debut feature
The gambling thriller earned a dreck-worthy 9 percent "rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes
The French director's latest film combines quirky visuals and raw emotion to tell an imaginative, powerful love story
This second “Machete” is even more lifeless and perfunctory than Robert Rodriguez’s fourth “Spy Kids”
Redford gives a bravura (and almost entirely non-verbal) performance as the sole cast member of this tense seafaring adventure
Happy Fourth of July, Hollywood
