Reviews
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‘Breathing Time’ Theater Review: Beau Willimon Enters Mamet Territory
Willimon is especially good at having one of his characters drop a little bomb of information that takes the audience completely by surprise
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‘Sabotage’ Review: Schwarzenegger Came Back to Hollywood for This?
Without Ah-nuld’s name attached, this noisy, stupid and semi-incoherent blood bath would go directly to DVD without passing Go or collecting $200
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‘The Raid 2’ Review: Imagine an Exhilaratingly Hyper-Violent MGM Musical
Multi-hyphenate Gareth Evans returns to Indonesia for another insanely graphic fight movie that keeps upping its own glorious ante
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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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‘Mothers and Sons’ Theater Review: Tyne Daly and Frederick Weller Slug It Out on Central Park West
Tyne Daly gets some of the evening’s biggest laughs without even saying a word in Terrence McNally’s new play
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‘Girls’ Season Finale Review: Lena Dunham Finishes Strong With Fights, Death and Good News
And oh, what a song by Michael Penn
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‘Nymphomaniac, Vols. I & II’ Review: Lars von Trier’s Sexual Tragicomedy Starts Strong, Loses Potency
Charlotte Gainsbourg plays a Scheherazade of the genitals, recounting the history of her sexual obsessions to a captivated Stellan Skarsgård
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‘Noah’ Review: Darren Aronofsky’s Biblical ‘Waterworld’ Mostly Runs Aground (Video)
Russell Crowe plays a zero-population-growth Noah in a movie stuck between being a straightforward Biblical epic and a full-tilt-boogie arthouse film
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‘Aladdin’ Theater Review: Disney’s Animation Team Got It Right the First Time
Disney Theatricals turns the Genie into a big show queen in padded Broadway adaptation of the animated hit
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‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Review: Superheroic, Yes, But Smart and Subversive Too (Video)
A hero who’s literally wrapped in the flag must come to terms with the Age of the NSA, in a film that asks some big questions in between stirring fight scenes
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‘Rob the Mob’ Review: A Bonnie & Clyde Tale That’s Better Than Its Title
Michael Pitt and Nina Arianda star as real-life Robin Hoods – accent on the ”hoods“ – with a plan so brilliantly stupid it actually worked, until it didn’t
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‘Divergent’ Review: A Little ‘Hunger Games,’ a Little ‘Harry Potter,’ a Lot of Dull (Video)
This Frankenstein of stitched-together YA parts never stands on its own two feet, even with Kate Winslet giving full-on Faye Dunaway
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‘Crisis’ Review: You Are Ordered to Care About These People
NBC drama has incredibly high stakes, but the characters are too stock
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‘Veronica Mars’ Reviews Agree It Is Kickstarter Money Well Spent
The majority of critics agree the crowdfunded movie is a fun mystery that manages to please its longtime fans, as well as audiences that didn’t watch the CW series
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‘The Single Moms Club’ Review: Moviegoers — and Moms Especially — Deserve Better
Only Tyler Perry can make a movie that’s laughably sexist and racist and still completely dull
