Reviews
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‘Hannibal’ Returns: 5 Reasons Why Season 2 Is Getting Off to a Great Start
The only problem with this season’s premiere is that it ends
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‘Ernest & Celestine’ Review: Oscar Got It Right, Nominating This Animated Delight
This French animated import (now featuring an English-language cast led by Forest Whitaker) mixes wit, warmth and watercolor to spin a charming tale for all ages
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‘Son of God’ Review: Bless Me, Surfer Jesus
Not unlike “Game of Thrones,” this big-screen condensation of History’s “The Bible” miniseries plays far more interestingly when it focuses on political machinations rather than on the supernatural
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‘Non-Stop’ Review: Liam Neeson Kicks Ass on a Plane Full of Red Herrings (Video)
In this cheesy but diabolically-entertaining thriller, an air marshal struggles to prove he’s not a terrorist — at 20,000 feet
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‘The Face of Love’ Review: Annette Bening in a Design Catalog That Overwhelms Its Characters
This tale of a grieving, privileged widow gets gummed up in plot mechanics and excessive design porn
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‘3 Days to Kill’ Reviews: Critics Open Fire on ‘Ridiculous’ Kevin Costner Flick
The message is clear: Proceed to the theaters this weekend with caution, unless you’re in the mood for a mindless action movie that doesn’t make any sense
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‘Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me’ Review: This Showbiz Spitfire Is Very Much Still Here
The larger-than-life Broadway (and TV and film) legend bursts off the screen in this loving but uncompromising documentary
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‘The Bridges of Madison County’ Theater Review: This Broadway Version Is the Charm
The collaboration here is a nearly perfect melding of story, arias, dialogue, recitative and pop tunes. Robert Jason Brown has written arias for Kelli O’Hara, country pop for Steven Pasquale, which is a sly reversal of Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza’s historic turns in “South Pacific”
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‘Barefoot’ Review: This Love Isn’t Very Crazy, But It’s Plenty Stupid
When Scott Speedman and Evan Rachel Wood find love in a mental hospital, this dreadful dramedy takes “manic pixie dream girl” to new levels of dumb
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‘3 Days To Kill’ Review: Kevin Costner Thriller Is Ambitious Disaster Trying to Be Both Action and Comedy
Director McG’s latest suggests the director wasn’t kidding when he named his last movie “This Means War”
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‘Omar’ Review: Palestinians Chafe Under Israeli Occupation in Oscar-Nominated Drama
Until a weak finish, writer-director Hany Abu-Assad (“Paradise Now”) takes a provocative look at how the ongoing struggles in the West Bank take a personal toll on the people who live there
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‘Pompeii’ Review: It’s Basically ‘Titanic’ With Lava — and Without Compelling Leads (Video)
Kit Harington and Emily Browning have about one facial expression between them as star-crossed lovers in this empty epic
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‘In Secret’ Review: Elizabeth Olsen Stars in the ‘John Carter’ of Homicidal Romances
Émile Zola’s “Thérèse Raquin” was a shocker in 1867, but its story elements have been borrowed so many times that they’re threadbare in this passionless remake
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‘About Last Night’ Review: Kevin Hart and Regina Hall Steal This Mixed-Doubles Rom-Com
This reworking of the 1986 comedy gets so much right about love and relationships that you’ll forgive the occasional cliché in the screenplay by Leslye Headland (“Bachelorette”)
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‘House of Cards’ Review: How Do You Raise the Stakes From Murder? Like This
We’re legally allowed to say it’s great, but that’s it
