Reviews
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‘That Awkward Moment’ Review: All the Man-Child Rom-Com Clichés, Plus a Nearly-Nude Zac Efron
While it strains for R-rated raunch, this exceedingly mild comedy just rehashes all the men-are-like-this, women-are-like-that observations from “About Last Night” and “When Harry Met Sally…”
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‘Stranger by the Lake’ Review: Summer Lovin’ with a Murderer
This sexy gay French import offers the kind of terse suspense Hitchcock and Polanski would appreciate
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‘I, Frankenstein’ Review: Aaron Eckhart Lumbers Through Stitched-Together ‘Underworld’ Knock-Off
This dreary horror-superhero hybrid about a war between angels and demons is as soulless as the title character
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‘Outside Mullingar’ Theater Review: John Patrick Shanley Returns to ‘Moonstruck’ Turf Via Ireland
Compared to Debra Messing and Brian F. O’Byrne’s long courtship here, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen’s wait for Godot a few blocks away at the Cort seems comparatively brief in theater time
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‘Gimme Shelter’ Review: Vanessa Hudgens Homeless Drama Also Charmless and Witless
Heavy-handed sermonizing, sloppy writing and overacting render this message movie dull, with flashes of unintentional hilarity
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‘Gloria’ Review: Paulina Garcia Shines in Heavy-Handed Middle-Aged Romance
Sebastian Lelio hammers home the marginalized existence of a woman in her late 50s looking for love in Santiago
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‘Knights of Badassdom’ Review: A Cultural Phenomenon Edited Down to a One-Note Joke
Producers reportedly took over director Joe Lynch’s celebration of live-action roleplaying and reduced it to a repetitive punchline
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Alonso Duralde’s Sundance Reviews: ‘Skeleton Twins’ Satisfies, ‘Infinitely Polar Bear’ Overdoses on Cute
The Wrap’s film critic sums up his final Park City screenings, from dysfunctional family dramedy to hard-hitting docs about powerful pedophiles
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‘Boyhood’ Review From Sundance: In Richard Linklater’s Latest, the Child is the Father of the Man
The cast ages in real time in this extraordinary epic of the ordinary, a stirring look at a family’s perseverance through the day-to-day business of getting older and growing up
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‘Looking’ Review: HBO’s New Gay Series Will Make You Work (Video)
The half-hour comedic drama isn’t a match for viewers with commitment issues
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Alonso Duralde at Sundance: Gay Marriage Comes to Utah, and Michael Fassbender Gets a Head
Marriage equality plays a role in very different movies, both documentary and narrative
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‘Devil’s Due’ Review: Found-Footage Horror Conceit Is Visually Ambitious – And That’s Not a Compliment
A needless multicamera setup becomes a trap for a promising idea and a pair of gifted filmmakers
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‘Machinal’ Theater Review: Rebecca Hall Wins by Losing It in Her Broadway Debut
This dazzling Roundabout Theater production often recalls an urban contradiction that is a hallmark of Edward Hopper’s paintings: loneliness coupled with a total lack of privacy.
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‘Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit’ Review: Chris Pine Reboots Tom Clancy’s Hero in a Slight But Spry Spy Game
Pine officially becomes Hollywood’s “Mr. Do-Over” in this origin story of the beloved number-crunching CIA agent
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‘American Idol’ Season 13 Review: Musicality Takes Center Stage Again
It is always all about the judges on these TV talent shows and this trio makes me OK with that
