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Film Review: Erased
Well-done, gripping international thriller, starring the underrated Aaron Eckhart. More »
Film Review: Star Trek Into Darkness
The post-conversion 3D is disappointing, but the newest Star Trek adventure remains exciting summer entertainment with a most appealing ensemble cast. More »
Film Review: Aftershock
Eli Roth steps in front of the camera in this fun but by-the-numbers horror romp. More »
Film Review: Peeples
In a comedic rite of passage—meeting the folks—complicated by class barriers, Craig Robinson flails around in Peeples. Sometimes it produces laughs. More »
Film Review: The Great Gatsby
Jay-Z meets Jay G in this hyperventilated version of F. Scott’s eloquent novel about an enigmatic self-made millionaire—the film isn’t for purists, but Baz should generate a buzz with young audiences. More »
Film Review: Iron Man 3
Industrialist Tony Stark faces the loss of everything he loves when a terrorist mastermind opens fire on the U.S. Third entry marks an exciting return to form for a franchise that had dipped in quality. More »
Film Review: The Iceman
Harsh, gritty—and increasingly grisly—this true-crime story dramatizes the life and bloody career of contract killer Richard Kuklinski: just another suburban dad who never brought his work home. More »
Film Review: Arthur Newman
Colin Firth and Emily Blunt play dress-up in sweet, semi-romantic road trip. More »
Film Review: Pain & Gain
Bodybuilders turn to kidnapping and murder in a bizarre true-crime story from director Michael Bay. More »
Film Review: The Big Wedding
Comedy about a wedding where the groom's divorced parents must pretend to still be married. The production should have been annulled. More »
Film Review: Mud
Against a lush Mississippi River backdrop, a boy’s coming-of-age is spurred by a friendship with an outlaw. More »
Film Review: Oblivion
Survivors battle for control of a post-nuclear Earth in a visually stunning adventure. More »
Film Review: Scary Movie 5
Spoofing movies ranging from Black Swan to Mama to Paranormal Activity, this installment of the profitable series is woefully, painfully unfunny. More »
Film Review: 42
Jackie Robinson helps break baseball's color bar when he plays for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Moving account of an American icon. More »
Film Review: The Company You Keep
Excellent, well-paced drama boasting Robert Redford as director and lead, about the radical anti-war past and an ambitious, present-day young journalist and feds bent on finding a fugitive living underground with a new identity. Terrific cast and writing fortify this cat-and-mouse chase through a web of revelations. More »
Film Review: Trance
Danny Boyle reworks familiar tropes—stolen art, expedient amnesia and the ever-titillating love triangle—into a stylish, diverting thriller. More »
Film Review: Evil Dead
Horror remake is action-packed and blood-drenched, but those with a weak stomach, be warned! More »
Film Review: The Host
A tough-minded teen fights back against the twinkly aliens that have taken over most of the Earth's population, turning them into polite, respectful, peace-loving shadows of their former selves, while juggling the affection of two totally cute boys in this goofy adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's young-adult take on Invasion of the Body Snatchers. More »
Film Review: Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor
This heavy-handed melodrama represents one of Tyler Perry's weakest efforts ever, and that's saying something. More »
Film Review: G.I. Joe: Retaliation
With Roadblock in the lead, G.I. Joe troops battle Cobra's plan to take over the world. Ragged, good-natured blockbuster improves on its predecessor. More »
Film Review: The Place Beyond the Pines
The opening chapter with a compelling Ryan Gosling as a motorcycle-daredevil bank robber is the strongest element of this three-part drama about fathers, sons and fate. More »
Film Review: The Croods
Fast-paced, inventive animated comic adventure of a Stone Age family gets an extra boost from the lively vocal performances of stars Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone and Ryan Reynolds. More »
Film Review: Olympus Has Fallen
North Korean terrorists attack the White House and take the President hostage in a generic thriller marred by poor special effects. More »
Film Review: Admission
One of the best comedies in a while, this bracingly smart, affecting romp is that rare Hollywood screen farce which doesn’t insult your intelligence and should find wide appeal. More »
Film Review: InAPPropriate Comedy
This painfully unfunny assemblage of would-be comedy sketches manages to make Movie 43 look good in retrospect. More »
Film Review: Spring Breakers
That lame, unimaginative title is pretty representative of this commercial wannabe that still suffers from the art-house pretensions and severe limitations of its auteur. More »
Film Review: The Call
Terrific craftsmanship and plenty of scares infuse this above-par programmer about an emergency call center operator’s determination to land a psychotic kidnapper who has absconded with his latest victim. Does the job for both general and more demanding audiences looking for some chills. More »
Film Review: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
While sticking to a fairly standard mainstream comedy story arc, this sturdy Steve Carell vehicle still serves up enough dark, edgy humor—most of it involving Jim Carrey—to also appeal to hipper sensibilities. More »
Film Review: Dead Man Down
Tarantino meets Hitchcock in Niels Arden Oplev’s smartly cast if uninspired American debut. More »
Film Review: Emperor
American soldiers must determine the fate of Japanese Emperor Hirohito at the end of World War II in a historical drama grafted onto a fictional romance. More »
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