Reviews
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‘A Case of You’ Review: Get Thee Out of Brooklyn, Too-Hip Rom-Com
Slight lampoon is smoothly directed but short on original insight — and a woeful misuse of Evan Rachel Wood
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‘Carrie’ Review: Stephen King Remake Is Bloody Irrelevant
There’s nothing particularly wrong with director Kimberly Peirce’s update, but it adds nothing to the 1976 Brian De Palma classic
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‘Reign’ Review: A Girlier ‘Game of Thrones,’ With Less Sex Than You Might Be Expecting
CW finds another star in Adelaide Kane
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‘Escape Plan’ Review: Stallone and Schwarzenegger Can’t Evade B-Movie Hell in Epic Pairing
Mikael Hafstrom movie hints at bigger ambitions but is impossible to take seriously
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‘Kill Your Darlings’ Review: Daniel Radcliffe Captivates in This Beat Superhero Origin Story
The ”Harry Potter“ gay sex scene might attract the curious, but this is a sensual exploration of youthful passion and artists coming of age
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‘Her’ Review: She’s Virtual, But You Can’t Have Everything
Spike Jonze spins a futuristic love story for the age of Siri, with Joaquin Phoenix falling for Scarlett Johansson as the voice of his operating system
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‘The Fifth Estate’ Review: Benedict Cumberbatch Wins Sympathy for the Devil
Bill Condon’s film offers a complex but ultimately one-sided portrait of charismatic Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
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‘Walking Dead’ Season 4 Review: The Zombies Are Slower Than Ever
TV’s biggest scripted show breaks a few rules it shouldn’t have
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‘Blue Is the Warmest Color’ Review: Porn? No. Sexy and Moving? Absolutely
Whatever she may have suffered on the set, Adele Exarchopoulos gives a magnificently unguarded performance
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‘Romeo and Juliet’ Review: It’s Just Teen Hormones, Dude
Adapted with unironic earnestness by Julian Fellowes, the latest adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic stage play effectively chronicles young love but doesn’t transcend it
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‘About Time’ Review: The Minutes Drag Like Hours in This Mawkish Time-Travel Romance
Writer-director Richard Curtis forgets to add the wit that made the sap of ”Love Actually“ and ”Notting Hill“ tolerable
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’12 Years a Slave’ Review: A Captivating, Harrowing Historical Horror Show (Video)
Director Steve McQueen seems determined to bury any lingering ”Gone With the Wind-ian“ notions of the antebellum South as a place of charm and grace
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‘Big Fish’ Theater Review: It Sings, It Dances, but Wait — Isn’t That ‘The Little Mermaid’?
The Tim Burton movie is now a musical, which is at its best when it thinks small and sticks to Daniel Wallace’s novel.
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‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ Review: Ben Stiller’s Daydreamer Tries Too Hard
Stiller’s ”Mitty“ tries so hard that his adventures — both real and imagined– are neither intriguing nor amusing
