Reviews
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‘The Last Days on Mars’ Review: Stylish Sci-Fi Monster Movie Can’t Decide If It’s High Art or Fun Trash
On the one hand, you’ve got a classy cast that includes Liev Schreiber and Olivia Williams, and on the other — astro-zombies!
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‘American Hustle’ Review: It’s Grifters vs. Feds in David O. Russell’s Sexy, Hilarious and Vivid Triumph (Video)
A quintet of great performances — from Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Jeremy Renner — anchor this audacious shaggy-dog story about the blurry line that separates hustlers from FBI agents
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‘Mob City’ Review: Frank Darabont’s Gangster Noir Burns Slow but Bright
Gangsters meet Hollywood in 1947 Los Angeles
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‘The Past’ Review: Iranian Filmmaker Explores Divorce, European Style
”A Separation“ writer-director Asghar Farhadi examines another couple torn asunder, but his excessive plotting distracts from his sharp observations of daily life and its human-sized revelations
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‘Oldboy’ Reviews: Is Spike Lee’s Remake Bloody Good Fun?
Critics are divided on the ”Do the Right Thing“ director’s revenge tale
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‘Oldboy’ Review: Besides Josh Brolin, Spike Lee’s Cult Classic Remake Adds Little That’s New
The themes of revenge and redemption feel muddled as Josh Brolin fights his way though an uninspired retooling of the Park Chan-Wook original
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‘The Invisible Woman’ Review: Ralph Fiennes’ Second Directorial Effort Is as Dull as the Dickens
This turgid biopic about Charles Dickens’ mistress Nelly Ternan feels as stiff and unyielding as a Victorian corset
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‘Black Nativity’ Review: Jennifer Hudson’s Joyful Noise Uplifts an Undercooked Plot
Sweet, seasonal and gorgeous, director Kasi Lemmons’ latest fills a void in African American cinema between inner-city action and broad situation comedy
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‘Waiting for Godot’ & ‘No Man’s Land’ Theater Review: Ian McKellen & Patrick Stewart Lighten Up on the Angst
For sheer laughs per minute, these two stars deliver the goods as if they were instead performing a farce by Alan Ayckbourn or Christopher Durang
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‘Jodorowsky’s Dune’ Review: A Riveting Chronicle of ‘The Greatest Movie Never Made’
Frank Pavich’s documentary chronicles the rise and fall of ”the greatest film never made“
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‘The Commons of Pensacola’ Theater Review: Blythe Danner Rocks, Sarah Jessica Parker Recyles
Amanda Peet’s ”The Commons of Pensacola“ belongs to that class of TV pilots that never get picked up and instead take up residence in Hollywood’s tiny store-front theaters
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‘Macbeth’ Theater Review: Ethan Hawke Stars in a Movie-Friendly Staging
Director Jack O’Brien lets us know that this is a very human-scale drama, but later in the play you may wonder who’s that horrible couple everybody’s gossiping about
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‘Homefront’ Review: Jason Statham vs. James Franco in Uneasy Mashup of Brutish Action and Family Values
This Sylvester Stallone-scripted shoot-em-up packs in the action, but the attempts at family-values messaging feel hypocritical at best
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‘Narco Cultura’ Review: Mexican Drug Kingpins Become Pop Culture Superstars in This Excellent Doc
Israeli photojournalist Shaul Schwarz digs deep and weaves a mesmerizing tale of cultural corruption and misplaced hero worship
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‘A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder’ Theater Review: Broadway’s Tops ‘Kind Hearts and Coronets’
Darko Tresnjak directs a compact, wickedly witty new musical. Especially delightful is the cheesy execution of the show’s hysterically funny murders
