Reviews
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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
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‘Endless Love’ Review: Teen Romance Isn’t Schmaltzy, But It’s Not Special, Either
Alex Pettyfer is poor, Gabriella Wilde is rich, and they’re both pretty in this slick but ardent love story
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‘Winter’s Tale’ Review: A Love Story With Lots of Colin Farrell and Very Little Sense
This fantasy-romance strives for magical realism, but the logical conundrums and plot conveniences get in the way of the hearts and flowers
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‘RoboCop’ Review: Not a Disastrous Remake, But Still Flat-Footed (Video)
It’s not a dark satire, it’s not ultra-violent, but it’s not much else instead except a competent but unexciting sci-fi action movie with a few good ideas
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‘The Tribute Artist’ Theater Review: Aging Drag Queen Gets Role of Lifetime in Charles Busch’s Daring Comedy
How is an aging drag queen who specializes in Bette and Marilyn going to keep working in Vegas when all the Millennials and Gen-Xers want are impersonations of Rihanna and Beyonce? Busch offers one possibility
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‘Vampire Academy’ Review: A YA Adaptation With More Hormones Than Brain Cells
More “Meaningless” than “Mean Girls,” Mark Waters’ vampire-themed thriller drowns overprivileged teens in an overcomplicated mythology
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‘The Monuments Men’ Reviews: Critics Bomb George Clooney’s World War II Movie
Many fault the film for being either a bit too boring, a bit too light, and a bit unbalanced
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‘Bronx Bombers’ Theater Review: Yogi Berra and Reggie Jackson Make Belated Broadway Debut
It’s crisis time in the land of the Yankees. And a sports crisis for playwright-director Eric Simonson is equal to a nuclear meltdown or the onset of male pattern baldness
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‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ Review: Wes Anderson’s Latest an Exhilarating — and Ephemeral — Sugar Rush (Video)
This action-comedy-romance-nostalgia piece is a movie lover’s head-spinning delight, and two hours later you’ll barely remember it
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‘Cavemen’ Review: A Rom-Com That’s a Real Knuckle-Dragger
Despite Skylar Astin and Camilla Belle’s charm, this no-brainer makes “That Awkward Moment” seem like Mamet
