Inkoo Kang
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‘Wish I Was Here’ Review: Zach Braff’s Passion Project Features Big Moments and Empty Characters
If you’re still listening to the “Garden State” soundtrack in your car, you may well be carried away by Braff’s latest; non-believers are more likely to find the proceedings self-indulgent and unconvincing
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‘Deliver Us From Evil’ Review: Eric Bana, Joel McHale, Olivia Munn and Cast Wasted on Just Another Exorcism Movie
Terrific performances and spooky atmospherics only stave off the predictable conclusion of a priest yelling at a guy who’s bleeding out of every orifice
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‘Snowpiercer’ Review: Chris Evans Thriller Embraces and Rejects Blockbuster Conventions
“The Host” and “Mother” director Bong Joon-Ho pours on the action but misses the heart — even with an eminently watchable Tilda Swinton — in this problematic adventure
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‘Venus in Fur’ Review: Actress and Director Tussle for Sexual Power in Roman Polanski’s Latest
The stage is the world for mind games between Emmanuelle Seigner and Mathieu Amalric’s characters, in another play-on-film from the émigré filmmaker
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‘How to Train Your Dragon 2’ Review: Something Gets Lost in the Leap from Romp to Epic
Gorgeous visuals and the addition of a strong new character (voiced by Cate Blanchett) don’t make up for a lackluster villain or the dumbing-down of the flying dragons
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‘Test’ Review: Dance Drama Ponders Survival in the Early Days of AIDS
This lovely and contemplative film examines the impact of the then-new HIV test on dancers in San Francisco in the mid-1980s
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‘Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon’ Review: Mike Myers Captures a Legendary Manager
Alice Cooper, Michael Douglas, and Sylvester Stallone are just some of the celebs who pop up to pay tribute to one of the gods of 1970s artist management
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’22 Jump Street’ Review: Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill Star in a Funnier, Smarter, Sexier Sequel
One could complain about the padding and the repetition, but who cares when the jokes and the performances are this hilarious?
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‘Blended’ Review: A Better-Than-Average Adam Sandler Movie Is Still an Adam Sandler Movie
Bringing Drew Barrymore back into the fold was a wise move, resulting in, for what it’s worth, the best of their three collaborations
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‘Chef’ Review: Jon Favreau Cooks for Himself, But Where’s the Flavor?
Leaving comic-book movies behind to write, direct and star in something smaller and more personal, the “Iron Man” director concocts a fairly bland stew of foodie fantasy
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‘Neighbors’ Review: Seth Rogen’s Suburbanites vs. Frat Boys Comedy Is an Instant Classic
This raucous but intelligent farce offers both rollicking laughs and interesting observations about college and gender dynamics
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‘Moms’ Night Out’ Review: Unfunny and Anti-Feminist
Patricia Heaton stars in a grinding comedy that ostensibly celebrates motherhood but ultimately yanks the carpet out from under its target audience
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‘Belle’ Review: Jane Austen Would Swoon Over This Lustrous Romantic Drama
This biopic examines race, gender and class in 18th century England, but it’s also a sumptuous love story
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‘The Quiet Ones’ Review: Jared Harris Leads a Cast Too Good for This Demonic Nonsense
Things go bump in the classroom in this inane and clichéd horror movie where the coolest thing on display is the old-school 1970s gadgetry
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‘Brick Mansions’ Review: Paul Walker Outclasses the Script by Leaps and Bounds
The parkour is breathtaking and the plot twists are ridiculous in this U.S. remake of “District B13”
