‘American Chaos’ Film Review: Day-Late, Dollar-Short Doc Traces Trump’s Rise to the White House
After endless profiles in The New York Times about What Trump Voters Really Think, the last thing we need is a movie on the same subject
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‘White Boy Rick’ Film Review: Real-Life Drug Saga Bolstered by Strong Performances
Even if Richie Merritt never acts again, he’s made an indelible mark with his naturalist turn as a teenage drug dealer and FBI informant
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‘Peppermint’ Film Review: Jennifer Garner Vengeance Saga Lacks Snap
“Taken” director Pierre Morel returns with another gloriously dumb (and vaguely racist) parental revenge tale
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‘Kin’ Film Review: Genre Mashup About an Alien Weapon Shoots Itself in the Foot
This debut feature from Jonathan and Josh Baker wants to launch a franchise, but it can’t even juggle sci-fi with family drama
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‘Overboard’ Film Review: Flimsy Remake Lacks Buoyancy
This retread, starring Anna Faris and Eugenio Derbez manages some charm, but its take on class and labor packs no punch
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‘Active Measures’ Film Review: How Putin’s Tactics Stole Russia, and How They’re Corrupting the USA
Hot Docs 2018: Hillary Clinton and other experts detail Putin’s chicanery — and Trump’s refusal to push back against it
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‘Traffik’ Film Review: Paula Patton Overdoes It in Overwrought Thriller
The scenes run too long, and the characters invariably make ridiculous decisions, but at least Dante Spinotti makes it all look great
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‘The Miracle Season’ Film Review: Volleyball Drama Serves Few Dramatic Spikes
Even with Oscar winners Helen Hunt and William Hurt in the cast, this faith-based sports docudrama gets caught in a formulaic net
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‘Unsane’ Film Review: Claire Foy Is or Isn’t Going Mad in Steven Soderbergh’s Thriller
This tense character piece abandons gimmickry to explore the ways in which women’s voices are ignored
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‘Flower’ Film Review: Talented Cast Set Adrift in Disappointing Teen Satire
Zoey Deutch leads a strong ensemble, but Max Winkler’s dark comedy goes from unfocused to sleazy before a tidy ending
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‘Peter Rabbit’ Movie Review: Beatrix Potter’s Bunny Reduced to Flopsy Sweat
Annoyingly “hip” and clamoring to please, this shrill kid movie lacks charm and fun
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‘The Signal’ Review: Fun with Genre, Even When the Director Out-Clevers Himself
William Eubank’s reach exceeds his grasp, but his twisty second feature establishes him as an interesting filmmaker to watch
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‘Oculus’ Review: Siblings Investigate Things That Go Bump in Their Past
An uneven metaphorical core and a decidedly incomplete mythology prevents “Oculus” from reflecting anything truly haunting
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‘Cesar Chavez’ Review: Michael Peña Captures the Labor Leader’s Magnetic Intensity
Like its namesake, this portrait of the iconic activist thrives on quiet efficacy rather than conspicuous theatricality
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‘Enemy’ Review: It’s Jake Gyllenhaal vs. Jake Gyllenhaal for Double the Mystery
Denis Villenueve’s second collaboration with Jake Gyllenhaal feels like a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in an arachnophobe’s worst nightmare
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‘Kelly & Cal’ Review: New Mom Juliette Lewis Finds an Unlikely Suburban Soulmate
This SXSW premiere stars Lewis and Jonny Weston as two outcasts who find each other in a sweet, sensitive film that doesn’t settle for easy answers
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‘300: Rise of An Empire’ Review: More of the Same, But Slightly Less
Eva Green stands out in a film that’s otherwise a similar second serving of slo-mo ultraviolence and showy camera work
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‘3 Days To Kill’ Review: Kevin Costner Thriller Is Ambitious Disaster Trying to Be Both Action and Comedy
Director McG’s latest suggests the director wasn’t kidding when he named his last movie “This Means War”
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‘About Last Night’ Review: Kevin Hart and Regina Hall Steal This Mixed-Doubles Rom-Com
This reworking of the 1986 comedy gets so much right about love and relationships that you’ll forgive the occasional cliché in the screenplay by Leslye Headland (“Bachelorette”)
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‘Vampire Academy’ Review: A YA Adaptation With More Hormones Than Brain Cells
More “Meaningless” than “Mean Girls,” Mark Waters’ vampire-themed thriller drowns overprivileged teens in an overcomplicated mythology
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‘Best Night Ever’ Review: Anti-Funny Ruins Your Memories of Movies From Which it Stole
Ultimately, “Best Night Ever” feels more like “worst movie ever”
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‘Knights of Badassdom’ Review: A Cultural Phenomenon Edited Down to a One-Note Joke
Producers reportedly took over director Joe Lynch’s celebration of live-action roleplaying and reduced it to a repetitive punchline
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‘Devil’s Due’ Review: Found-Footage Horror Conceit Is Visually Ambitious – And That’s Not a Compliment
A needless multicamera setup becomes a trap for a promising idea and a pair of gifted filmmakers
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‘The Legend Of Hercules’ Review: Kellan Lutz’s Beefcake Saga is One Messy Myth (Video)
This retelling of Hercules’ mythology doesn’t feature 12 labors, but 99 — one for each minute the audience has to sit through
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‘Justin Bieber’s Believe’ Review: Portrait of an Artist Who’s No Longer a ‘Baby’
Growing pains and the price of fame take center stage in this tour-documentary follow-up to “Never Say Never”
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‘Walking With Dinosaurs’ Review: You’ll Be Rooting for Extinction
Insufferably inane movie assumes that youngsters think paleontology isn’t cool — and that the irritating performances by John Leguizamo and Justin Long will be funny
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TheWrap Screening Series: ‘Porcelain Horse’ Writer-Director on the ‘Expectation’ of Freebase Addiction
“I thought, if I could make a film about corruption, it would be an interesting place to start with personal corruption”
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TheWrap Screening Series: ‘The Book Thief’ Star Geoffrey Rush Heaps Praise on Co-Star Sophie Nelisse (Video)
“To suddenly work opposite someone who is 12 who was just mind-blowingly focused, graceful, effortless, disciplined, deeply moving, I found it shifted the goalposts for me for what I thought acting was about,” he revealed
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‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ Review: Peter Jackson’s Second Verse Is Better Than the First
Clearer and more engaging than its predecessor, this second installation in the “Hobbit” trilogy deftly brings out the human side of dwarves and elves while upping the action quotient
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‘Twice Born’ Review: Penélope Cruz and Emile Hirsch as Twits Under Fire in Sarajevo
When bombs are falling and people are dying, it’s hard to care a hill of beans about the problems of two underdeveloped and self-indulgent characters
