Reviews
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‘A Haunted House 2’ Review: Less Terrible, Still Terrible
Leaden sequel might offer one or two more laughs than its misbegotten predecessor, but it’s still a lazy and slapdash horror spoof
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‘Fading Gigolo’ Review: Woody Allen Pimps It Up With John Turturro in Surprisingly Soulful Farce
Turturro wrote and directed the story about a sensitive florist turned man-‘ho
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‘Act One’ Theater Review: Tony Shalhoub Does Triple Duty in Moss Hart Memoir
Former ”Monk“ star’s many physical transformations emerge as one of the production’s greatest pleasures and its major element of suspense
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‘Heaven Is for Real’ Reviews: Does the Faith-Based Film Make Believers Out of Critics?
While some critics say the movie transcends its hokey Hallmark Channel-esque premise, few like its version of Heaven
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‘Bears’ Review: A Year in the Life, From Hibernation to Salmon Fishing and Back Again
In this sweet-natured Disney nature film narrated by John C. Reilly, the title characters really do go over the mountain to see what they can see (and eat)
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‘Of Mice and Men’ Theater Review: James Franco, Chris O’Dowd Bring Vibrant and Poignant Life to Steinbeck Revival
Franco completely abandons any trace of the laconic slacker that’s defined his best-known screen portrayals
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‘Transcendence’ Review: Johnny Depp Is a Ghost in the Machine in This Bug-Riddled Techno-Thriller (Video)
You can feel this movie’s attempts at Big Ideas about technology get weighed down by a dopey, nonsensical plot
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‘Heaven Is for Real’ Review: Even Skeptics Can Find This Tale Humane and Even-Handed
A young boy claims to have glimpsed the afterlife during a near-death experience, and director Randall Wallace keeps his adaptation of the pop-religion best-seller on an even keel
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‘The Library’ Theater Review: Steven Soderbergh, Scott Z. Burns Take Aim at Gun Violence
Chloe Grace Moretz is the bad girl in this scenario carried forth on nonstop cable news, and the actress’s fine performance, a stage debut, helps to keep us intrigued, if not always sympathetic
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‘Fargo’ Review: Billy Bob Thornton Brings Out the Worst in Nice Midwesterns
The body count starts rising when Lorne Malvo meets mild-mannered Lester in FX’s adaptation of the Coen brothers movie
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‘Rio 2’ Review: A Zippy Musical Trapped Inside a Tedious Kiddie Movie
When the fine feathered (and amphibian) cast sings and dances, you almost forget what a bore the rest of this sequel is
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‘Draft Day’ Reviews: Should Audiences Catch Kevin Costner’s Latest Flick or Punt It?
Critics are mixed on the NFL drama starring Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner, Denis Leary and Chadwick Boseman
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‘Mad Men’ Review: Let’s Cling to the Past a Little Longer
The future is coming too fast for Don Draper
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‘Bullets Over Broadway’ Theater Review: Woody Allen, Zach Braff and Very Large Dancing Hot Dogs
Susan 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
Director David Gordon Green builds a fascinating world with rich characters, but the plot gets in the way of the film’s subtler charms
