Reviews
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‘Draft Day’ Review: Football Tale Hangs Like Square Dad Jeans on Kevin Costner
Ivan 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)
Undead 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
Will 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
Julia 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
Mike Judge attacks his old stomping grounds in new HBO sitcom
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‘Game of Thrones’ Season 4 Review: Oh My Gods
New characters! New nudity! And probably some more dead people
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‘Turn’ Review: Meet the Spies Who Made America
A 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
With 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
The 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
In 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
An 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?
Critics 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
Jude 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
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‘Heathers: The Musical’ Theater Review: Singing and Killing People All the Way to the Prom
Imagine the wound-up, overly fraught Ida Lupino trying to play a distressed teenager, and you have Barrett Wilbert Weed’s Veronica. At age 16, Winona Ryder never went there.
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‘Afflicted’ Review: Clever, But Not Enough to Overcome Two Tired Horror Sub-Genres
It’s a better first-person mock-documentary thriller than most, but it’s nonetheless a first-person mock-doc thriller — and something else you’re probably sick of, but to reveal that would be telling too much
