Reviews

  Director Wong Kar Wai is in love. In love with his actors and actresses, his stories, his camera, his movies … he’s in love with moviemaking. It shows in

  Even if you’re not a fan of the worldwide phenomenon that is “The Hunger Games,” there’s three very good reasons to see the second of the quartet of films

  Despite its impressive boxoffice take (past the $250 million mark in the U.S.) and its technical wizardry, Alfonso Cuaron’s tale of a medical engineer (Sandra Bullock) on her first

  I’m not quite sure whether director Alexander Payne is laughing with or at the characters in his critically acclaimed film about the perambulations of Woody Grant, a booze-addled old

  You should know by now that I’m no big fan of comic book heroes ported to the big screen (exceptions: The Dark Knight and The Avengers) and this second

  A weak comedy about a young woman with a fixation on all things Jane Austen who spends her life savings on a trip to Austenland in England, an eccentric

  “Ender’s Game” has so many things wrong with it I don’t know where to begin: a weak story line, unlikable characters that aren’t fleshed out and are one-dimensional cardboard

  What do you think about watching a film about a 77-year-old man wordlessly floundering around on a foundering boat for 106 minutes? Well if that man is Robert Redford,

  There’s a pair of outstanding performances in director Jean-Marc Vallee’s (“The Young Victoria”) thoroughly involving “Dallas Buyers Club”: One by Matthew McConaughey, who plays real-life Texas electrician Ron Woodroof,

  Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger team up for an implausible — but straight-ahead — action-adventure about a security expert (Stallone) whose all-consuming job is breaking out of maximum security

  You’ve got to hand it to director Ron Howard: he went out on a limb to produce and direct this film set during the golden age of 1970s Formula

  Picks up where the first film left off, but this time inventor Flint Lockwood’s infamous machine (which turns water into food, resulting in cheeseburger rain and spaghetti tornadoes) is

  “Jackass” ringleader Johnny Knoxville takes on the personna of 86-year-old Irving Zisman in the story of a crotchety old man unexpectedly saddled with the care of his 8-year-old grandson,

  A muddled attempt to track the rise and fall of WikiLeaks — the muckraking website that leaked hundreds of thousands of pages of secret documents from governments around the

  What do four of our greatest actors do when they have down time between meaty roles? They get together for an inconsequential comedy about four old friends who travel

  Two-time Oscar-winner Tom Hanks turns in one of his best performances in years in the true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of

  Say what you will about the reclusive, aloof, perhaps kinky Woody Allen — the man loves women. In particular, he loves the women in his films (sometimes literally), creating

  A delightful but lean comedy about a young voiceover artist (writer-director Lake Bell) who gets her first big break in the cutthroat world of movie-trailer voiceovers and then finds

  Nicole Holofcener is the best director you’ve never heard of. Her forte is quiet, small romantic comedies that revolve around women struggling to find themselves in the world —

  Director Lee Daniels’ career has been nothing if not eclectic, from the off-kilter hit-woman thriller “Shadowboxer” through the award-winning “Precious” through the very down-and-dirty “The Paperboy.” “The Butler” is

  A delightfully warm and honest teen romance based on the Tim Tharp book about Sutter Keely (Miles Teller), a high school senior and effortless charmer whose “live in the

  A fresh twist on the home-invasion horror film. A family reunion at a remote weekend estate turns nasty when the house comes under siege by a mask-wearing team of

  The latest chapter of the saga that began with 2000’s hit sci-fi film “Pitch Black” and 2004’s “The Chronicles of Riddick” reunites writer-director David Twohy and star Vin Diesel.

  What better way to start off the new year than with a staggering indictment of greed and imbalance in our economic system. “Inequality for All” is a passionate argument

  Comedy-drama follows the lives of three sex addicts as they struggle to overcome their debilitating addictions. Adam (Mark Ruffalo) is an over-achieving environmental consultant who has trouble with relationships,

  “I’m So Excited!” left me decidedly unexcited. I’ve never walked out on a film in a theater, and I’ve hardly ever “walked out” on a DVD, preferring to fast

  “Elysium” is director Neill Blomkamp’s follow-up to his innovative sci-fi morality tale “District 9” and, not surprisingly, he here covers some of the same ground — the exploitation of

  Director Gore Verbinski and actor Johnny Depp’s deconstruction of the “legend” of “The Lone Ranger” came in for some heavy bashing by a majority of film critics who all

  Though “Kick-Ass 2” falls short as a worthy sequel to the 2010 original film that pitted costumed high-school heroes against criminals and all-around bad guys, it still stands up