
Reviews
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‘Bullets Over Broadway’ Theater Review: Woody Allen, Zach Braff and Very Large Dancing Hot Dogs
By Robert Hofler | April 10, 2014 @ 6:51 PMSusan Stroman achieves a level of low vulgarity not encountered even among the non-stop obscenities of ”The Book of Mormon“ in her staging of the Woody Allen musical
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‘Joe’ Review: Nicolas Cage Can Still Act, When Asked To
By Alonso Duralde | April 10, 2014 @ 12:24 PMDirector David Gordon Green builds a fascinating world with rich characters, but the plot gets in the way of the film’s subtler charms
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‘Draft Day’ Review: Football Tale Hangs Like Square Dad Jeans on Kevin Costner
By Inkoo Kang | April 9, 2014 @ 9:30 PMIvan Reitman’s gridiron drama is stodgy and boxy — and not too much to look at, either
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‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ Review: Tilda Swinton and Jim Jarmusch Revive the Moribund Vampire Genre (Video)
By Alonso Duralde | April 9, 2014 @ 5:35 PMUndead and louche, these Eurotrashy vamps bring wit and poignancy to a tale you thought you were sick of hearing
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‘The Realistic Joneses’ Theater Review: Michael C. Hall Confronts Eternity and Owls on Broadway
By Robert Hofler | April 6, 2014 @ 6:00 PMWill Eno’s dialogue isn’t just off-kilter, it’s way off center, and both Michael C. Hall and Tracy Letts handle the dazzling wordplay with great deadpan wit. But Toni Collette is left with one of the most thanklessly reactive roles in all of 21st century drama
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‘Veep’ Review: High Stakes Bring Out Selina Meyer’s Worst
By Tim Molloy | April 4, 2014 @ 4:32 PMJulia Louis-Dreyfus and the rest of the cast find new ways to be brutal
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‘Silicon Valley’ Review: Stabbing the Tech Bubble
By Tim Molloy | April 4, 2014 @ 4:04 PMMike Judge attacks his old stomping grounds in new HBO sitcom
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‘Game of Thrones’ Season 4 Review: Oh My Gods
By Tim Molloy | April 4, 2014 @ 11:21 AMNew characters! New nudity! And probably some more dead people
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‘Turn’ Review: Meet the Spies Who Made America
By Tim Molloy | April 4, 2014 @ 6:12 AMA tough time slot may quell the revolution, but it deserves watching
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‘A Raisin in the Sun’ Theater Review: Denzel Washington Looks Back and Forward in Anger
By Robert Hofler | April 3, 2014 @ 5:18 PMWith his bravura performance, Denzel Washington shifts the balance of Lorraine Hansberry’s classic play, and he shifts it in the right direction
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‘Under the Skin’ Review: A Is for ‘Alien’ and ‘Arthouse’ in This Oblique Scarlett Johansson Puzzler
By Alonso Duralde | April 2, 2014 @ 4:09 PMThe director of ”Birth“ and ”Sexy Beast“ returns after a decade-long absence with an enigmatic film that will entrance some and baffle many
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‘Alan Partridge’ Review: Steve Coogan’s Hilarious Creation Remains Vain, Even at Gunpoint
By Alonso Duralde | April 2, 2014 @ 12:51 PMIn this pungently funny media satire, a has-been sees a hostage crisis as a way to get back on television
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‘Oculus’ Review: Siblings Investigate Things That Go Bump in Their Past
By Todd Gilchrist | April 2, 2014 @ 11:56 AMAn uneven metaphorical core and a decidedly incomplete mythology prevents ”Oculus“ from reflecting anything truly haunting
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‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Reviews: Does Marvel’s Latest Land a Punch?
By Brent Lang | April 2, 2014 @ 10:01 AMCritics are weighing in on Chris Evans new adventure
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‘Dom Hemingway’ Review: Jude Law Goes Full Character Actor in This Hilarious but Hollow Gangster Comedy
By Inkoo Kang | April 2, 2014 @ 9:29 AMJude Law leaves his pretty-boy past behind him to play a middle-aged mobster in a movie that’s not always worthy of his exertions