‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ Review: Tim Burton Gums Up the Works
What should have been a charming mix of the bizarre and the charming gets weighted down with clumsy plotting and exposition
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Curtis Hanson Remembered: A Filmmaker Who Was Also a Movie Lover
Writer-director’s love for old Hollywood went way beyond his brilliant screen version of James Ellroy’s “L.A. Confidential”
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‘Storks’ Review: Andy Samberg Delivers Laughs and Babies in Charming Animated Adventure
Writer and co-director Nicholas Stoller‘s script achieves hilarity and poignancy by following storytelling rules — and breaking them, too
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‘The Oliver Stone Experience': Matt Zoller Seitz Gets Deep With the Auteur
“He’s a very conflicted guy, and there are a lot of areas where he’s contradictory, conflicted,” author tells TheWrap about the Oscar-winning filmmaker
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‘Blair Witch’ Review: Generation Selfie Gets Lost in the Woods
The tech may be updated, but this remake of the 1999 horror hit follows an all-too-familiar roadmap (now with GPS!)
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‘Katie Says Goodbye’ Toronto Review: A Young Woman’s Destruction Gets Served Up, Once Again, As Entertainment
Toronto 2016 Review: First-time writer-director Wayne Roberts clearly empathizes with his young heroine, but ties her to the railroad tracks anyway
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‘Snowden’ Toronto Review: Oliver Stone Plays It Aesthetically Safe
Toronto 2016: Stone names the right (and left) names in this biopic of the whistle-blower, but his storytelling style lacks punch
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‘London Road’ Review: True-Crime Musical Overstays Its Welcome
Olivia Colman stars (and Tom Hardy has a cameo) in this movie that sets eyewitness transcripts to music, a clever idea that can’t sustain an entire feature
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‘Hacksaw Ridge’ Venice Review: Mel Gibson Says War Is Hell — Except When It’s Awesome
The “Passion of the Christ” director extols pacifism with one hand while making war brutally exciting with the other
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‘Frantz’ Venice Review: François Ozon’s Post-War Tragedy Lacks Subtlety
The auteur’s examination of the perils of nationalism delivers most of its points with far too heavy a hand
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‘The Young Pope’ Venice Review: Jude Law Does the Vatican Rag
The first two chapters of the Paolo Sorrentino miniseries seem uncomfortably perched between satire and nighttime soap
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‘Nocturnal Animals’ Venice Review: Tom Ford Gambles Big and Wins on Second Feature
Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal star in a film that successfully melds grit and glamour, the past and present, fiction and reality
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‘Arrival’ Venice Review: Amy Adams Talks to the Aliens in Cerebral Sci-Fi Story
Denis Villeneuve‘s tale of humanity’s first contact with ETs wants to appeal to both the heart and the head, but it succeeds mostly above the shoulders
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‘La La Land’ Venice Review: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone Trip the Light Fantastic
In his follow-up to “Whiplash,” writer-director Damien Chazelle serves up a recognizable Los Angeles that’s also a singing, dancing land of dreams
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‘The Light Between Oceans’ Venice Review: Alicia Vikander Flirts With Tragedy, Settles Down With Sap
This sweeping tale, also starring Michael Fassbender and Rachel Weisz, takes a hairpin turn from Thomas Hardy to Nicholas Sparks
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‘Morgan’ Review: Kate Mara Battles a More-Human-Than-Human Hybrid
If director Luke Scott wants to avoid comparisons to his father Ridley, perhaps his feature debut shouldn’t touch upon themes from “Blade Runner”
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Remembering Gene Wilder’s Best Performance: The Delightful, Devilish Willy Wonka
The actor’s mesmerizing turn as Roald Dahl’s confectioner — like the movie that contains it — operates on a completely different level for children than for adults
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‘The Hollars’ Review: Margo Martindale Can Only Do So Much With a Clichéd Script
A talented cast — including Richard Jenkins, Anna Kendrick and director John Krasinski — buckles under a film that feels like a million Sundance movies that came before
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‘War Dogs’ Review: Miles Teller and Jonah Hill Shoot Blanks
Director Todd Phillips doesn’t know if his tale of 20-something arms dealers is a satire, a cautionary tale or a rags-to-riches saga. It winds up being nothing
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‘Sausage Party’ Review: Seth Rogen’s Bawdy Food Cartoon Is Hard to Swallow
This adults-only animation earns its R rating, but it’s never outrageous, inventive or funny enough to satisfy
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‘Suicide Squad’ Review: Margot Robbie, Viola Davis Stand Out in Overstuffed Spectacle
This latest DC Comics adaptation tries to stuff 10 pounds of supervillain backstory into a five-pound bag
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‘Bad Moms’ Review: Mila Kunis and Company Turn This Mother Out
This surprisingly hilarious comedy marries R-rated laughs of the Judd Apatow-Will Ferrell school with Erma Bombeck’s observational hausfrau humor
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‘Nerve’ Review: Emma Roberts-Dave Franco Online Adventure Has More Than a Few Bugs
The thrills are thrilling, and there’s even a compelling idea or two, but the script for this Internet adventure could have used a version 2.0
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‘Nightlife’ Karlovy Vary Review: Lawyer’s Life and Reputation Hang in the Balance in Slovenian Thriller
An estranged wife must cover up the dodgy details of a political hit job before the press finds out, over one tense evening
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Hey, Marvel! Charlie Kaufman Will Write a Superhero Movie (If Asked)
Writer-director of “Anomalisa” and “Synecdoche, New York” explores his options after making two critically acclaimed box-office disappointments
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‘The Pleasure Is Mine’ Karlovy Vary Review: Passion Burns Hot and Flames Out in Sexy Mexican Drama
Director Elisa Miller and her two leads are fearless in portraying the rise and fall of a sexual relationship, even when it comes to on-screen erections
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‘The Confessions’ Karlovy Vary Review: Tedious Thriller Has Nothing New to Say About Banking and Greed
Toni Servillo (“The Great Beauty”) stars as an anti-materialist monk who does nothing but sermonize and receive exposition dumps
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‘Blood Father’ Karlovy Vary Review: Mel Gibson Strikes Grindhouse Gold
This sleazy, satisfying fugitive revenge drama balances blood, guts and explosions with interesting characters and sharp banter
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‘Anthropoid’ Karlovy Vary Review: Jamie Dornan Battles Nazis in Resistible Resistance Tale
Dornan and Cillian Murphy star as two real-life Czech resistance fighters — but a fascinating real-life story doesn’t guarantee an interesting movie
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‘The Legend of Tarzan’ Review: Alexander Skarsgard Swings Through a Bungle in the Jungle
Action saga feels like another by-the-numbers attempt at reviving a familiar hero (see “Carter, John” and “Ranger, Lone”)
