‘A Ghost Story’ Review: Poetry in Bed Sheets
Writer/director David Lowery’s ‘A Ghost Story’ shouldn’t work. It’s an existential exploration of life, death, love, loss, memory and time, in which the main character is a ghost covered by a bed shee...
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‘Song to Song’ Review: More Mediocre Malick
Terrence Malick used to disappear for decades between movies and then return with something magical that was worth the wait. Sadly, he no longer seems interested in taking his time planning a film or even having much of an idea of...
Sundance Journal: ‘The Discovery’
It seems like Sundance co-creator Robert Redford (and/or one of his kids) finds a way into a festival movie each year. More often than not, it feels like these films only make it into the festival because of the Redford name. Such...
‘Lion’ Review: King of the Weepies
The end of the year is a time for “based on a true story” weepies designed to keep the Kleenex industry in business and gobble up easy award nominations. Most of them stink and work only on the easily manipulated and/o...
‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ Review: Psychedelic Family
Ever since launching with the masterful ‘Coraline’, Laika has been one of the most consistent animation factories on the planet. Though essentially trafficking in kiddie entertainment, the stop-motion studio always exe...
‘Carol’ Review: Traditionally Non-Traditional
A hit out of Cannes where Todd Haynes’ delicately crafted period romance went down like gangbusters, ‘Carol’ is the quiet art house flick of the year for folks who enjoy such things. It’s a film with no spe...
‘Pan’ Review: Not Your Daddy’s Peter
Apparently it’s necessary to resurrect and remake ‘Peter Pan’ every five years. The cycle has come around again and this time fell into the unlikely hands of ‘Atonement’ and ‘Hanna’ direct...
Weekend Roundtables: Career Turnarounds
Sometimes, an actor just needs to find the right role to suit his or her talents. In this week’s Roundtable, we discuss the actors that we used to dislike, even hate, until one project finally turned their fortunes around.
Now Playing: So Into ‘Her’
They say all good science fiction is actually about today. In Spike Jonze’s latest wonderful feature, ‘Her’, that feels particularly true.
‘Side Effects’ Contest Results
One of the side effects of entering our contests here is that you may take home a free Blu-ray. Score! Let’s find out which of our readers has won a copy of Steven Soderbergh’s medical thriller ‘Side Effects̵...
You May Experience Headaches, Nausea or Uncontrollable Homicidal
Just because it’s a short week, don’t think that we’ve forgotten to give away another free movie. Enter our contest today for your chance to win Steven Soderbergh’s medical thriller ‘Side Effects̵...
Weekend Movies: ‘Effects’ May Vary
This weekend’s two big releases appear to have some box office potential, but could just as potentially go nowhere. One is an R-rated comedy with a very familiar plot, the other a Steven Soderbergh thriller that has barely b...