Reviews
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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
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‘If/Then’ Theater Review: Idina Menzel Lets It Go and Go
The switching back and forth in a film like ”Sliding Doors“ is easier to follow but it doesn’t have the pleasures on the stage, where the physical space never changes and the lead character goes to bed with one man but wakes up with another
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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
