Reviews
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‘Frozen’ Review: Disney’s Best Animated Musical Since ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (Video)
Proactive princesses and catchy tunes make for a winning combo in this updating of Hans Christian Andersen’s ”Snow Queen“
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‘The Wind Rises’ Review: Miyazaki’s Soaring Celebration of Man’s Dreams of Flight
If the Japanese animation master makes good on his threat to retire, he’s going out on top with this gorgeous, haunting biopic
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‘Free Birds’ Review: This Animated Thanksgiving Comedy Is Pure Gobble-dygook
Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson voice two turkeys who travel back in time to change the menu at the Plymouth Colony — but it’s just not funny, pilgrim
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‘Last Vegas’ Review: Robert De Niro + Michael Douglas + Morgan Freeman = Grumpy Old Hangover (Video)
”Last Vegas“ lives and dies by the aggregate charm and charisma of its stars, since that’s pretty much all it has to offer
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‘Betrayal’ Theater Review: James Bond’s a Loutish Cuckold
It’s a marvel of acting to watch Daniel Craig slowly bring the subtext of raging anger to the fore in scene after scene of this Harold Pinter revival
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‘The Armstrong Lie’ Review: A Too-Generously-Unbiased View of Lance’s Tour de Doping
Director Alex Gibney approaches his subject with the same sort of emotional detachment that Armstrong brings to his confessions
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‘Dracula’ Review: Vampire Trades Blood for Oil in NBC Update
Meet Steve Jobs as a vampire
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‘Ender’s Game’ Review: Complex Sci-Fi Adventure That Appeals to Children’s Inner Adults
”Ender’s Game“ is a rare example of filmmaking with a scalpel at a scale that usually demands a hatchet
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‘The Snow Geese’ Theater Review: Mary-Louise Parker Gets Lost in the Weeds
The characters unburden themselves of so much complicated history in the first moments that you might consider retitling it ”Autumn: Onondaga County“
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‘The Counselor’ Review: Javier Bardem’s Wardrobe Has More Flair Than the Film
Ridley Scott’s latest movie starts promisingly but turns into yet another movie about a drug deal gone bad
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‘The Landing’ Theater Review: The New John Kander Musical’s for People Who Don’t Like Musicals
David Hyde Pierce stars in John Kander’s first musical without longtime collaborator Fred Ebb, and there’s not a showgirl or boy in sight.
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‘Bad Grandpa’ Review: ‘Jackass’ in Old-Man Drag Is Slightly Tamer but Still Outrageously Hilarious (Video)
Johnny Knoxville even adds a bit of a plot in this ”Borat“/”Little Miss Sunshine” blend
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‘Thor: The Dark World’ Review: A Stirring, If Not Mighty, Return for the Thunder God (Video)
Filmmakers haven’t put a lot of new ideas between Chris Hemsworth and his hammer, but there are enough thrills and laughs to keep it aloft
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‘A Time to Kill’ Theater Review: John Grisham’s Tale Should Have Settled Out of Court
When you strip Grisham’s panoramic tale of racism and injustice down to a courtroom drama, there really isn’t much of a trial at the heart of it
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‘Nebraska’ Review: Bruce Dern, Alexander Payne Deliver Nuanced Portrait of Small-Town Life
Payne’s latest meets at an unexpectedly powerful crossroads between hazy optimism and clear-eyed nostalgia
