Alonso Duralde
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‘One Direction: This Is Us’ Review: An Infomercial as Amiable and Disposable as the Boy Band’s Songs (Video)
"Super Size Me's" Morgan Spurlock’s doc is less interested in pushing the music than in selling us these five guys who have become friends under the oddest circumstances
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‘Closed Circuit’ Review: Surveillance Cameras Everywhere, but Nothing Worth Watching
The story is meant to shock us, but in this Edward Snowden/Chelsea Manning era, does any government-sanctioned chicanery come as a real surprise?
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‘The Grandmaster’ Review: Sweeping, Gorgeous, Exciting – and Butchered – Taste of Kung Fu Legend Ip Man
Wong Kar-Wai’s gorgeous martial-arts biopic jumps from event to event like a very long “Previously on ‘Homeland’…”
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Ben Affleck as Batman: Hey, Bat-Fans, Calm the *%!& Down!
Commentary: Fans didn't want Daniel Craig as 007 or Joss Whedon for "The Avengers" — or Michael Keaton for 1989's Dark Knight, either
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‘You’re Next’ Review: A Tense Slasher With Both Wit and Twists
This chiller nods to the classics but keeps enough tricks up its sleeve to keep audiences quivering at the edge of their seats
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‘The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones’ Review: Part ‘Harry Potter,’ Part ‘Twilight,’ All Dull
You’d think a movie with werewolf bikers, mini-skirted demon hunters and gay warlocks would offer some excitement. You would be wrong.
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‘The World’s End’ Review: 12 Pints of Laughs, Heartbreak and Male Menopause (Video)
In this hilarious new Edgar Wright-Simon Pegg-Nick Frost collaboration, five old friends learn you can’t go home again when the apocalypse is nigh
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‘Ain’t Them Bodies Saints’ Review: Stunning Cinematography Overwhelms a Slight Story
Writer-director David Lowery’s gorgeous film boasts powerful performances, but gets stuck as the plot spins its wheels
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‘Austenland’ Review: Lacking Sense and Sensibility … and Laughs
Clumsy comedy about love-starved ladies seeking a real-life Mr. Darcy squanders its promising premise with lazy writing and haphazard direction
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‘Jobs’ Review: Needs a Trip to the Genius Bar
Ashton Kutcher stars as the Apple exec in a movie that never convincingly portrays him as either genius or bastard
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‘Kick-Ass 2’ Review: Whiny Teens, No Kick-Ass Fun
The original felt like it was designed for adolescents; this feels like it was made by an adolescent with a whopping case of ADHD
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‘Prince Avalanche’ Review: Oddball Little Gem That’s Both Wacky and Lyrical (Video)
David Gordon Green's latest stars Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch as mismatched co-workers stranded on a desolate stretch of Texas highway
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‘Paranoia’ Review: Put This Cellphone-Industry Thriller on Your Do-Not-Call List
Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford slum it in a rehash that’s so predictable and inert that the double-crosses are more like crosses-and-a-half
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‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ Review: A Mass-Audience-Friendly Portrayal of Racism’s Legacy
The director's latest scores as a popcorn-politics survey of 20th century American racism but never becomes the soaring historical tearjerker it clearly aims to be
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‘In a World … ‘ Review: Promising Comedy Juggles More Ideas Than It Can Handle
In her debut as writer-director, Lake Bell doesn’t lack for witty observations, but she gives herself too many plot and character plates to spin
