Columns
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‘When the Game Stands Tall’ Review: More Shapeless — and Pointless — Than a Deflated Football
The stealth faithiness of this awkward football docudrama is just one of several ingredients that don’t play well together
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‘Love is Strange’ Review: John Lithgow and Alfred Molina Play Homeless Husbands in a Classic New York Story
The veteran actors’ spot-on, heartbreaking portrayal of an older couple buffeted about by discrimination and Manhattan’s prohibitive rents highlights a moving film that doesn’t always live up to its promise
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‘Life After Beth’ Review: Aubrey Plaza’s Monster More Appealing Than the Romance
There’s a distinct lack of humanity in this zombie-rom-com, resulting in not enough brains nor heart to chew on
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‘The Giver’ Review: Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep Can’t Teach This Predictable YA Thriller New Tricks
This adaptation of the Lois Lowry best-seller gets adolescence right and everything else wrong
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‘The Dog’ Review: Portrait of a Bank Robber an Expertly Crafted Game of Revelations
Smart and provocative, this portrait of the true-life figure behind “Dog Day Afternoon” dazzlingly punctures its subject’s delusions
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‘The Knick’ Review: Steven Soderbergh’s Vision of New York as Hell
Clive Owen stars as a drug-addicted doctor in 1900 Manhattan
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4 Million Reasons James Corden Makes Sense for ‘The Late Late Show’
CBS isn’t just replacing Craig Ferguson with another white guy from the United Kingdom
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‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Season Finale: Men vs. Women, Old vs. New
Do creation and pain go hand-in-hand?
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Eli Wallach and Paul Mazursky: Summer Trips with the Screen Greats (Guest Blog)
Summertime and the “livin’ is easy.” My recent rail trip from Brittany to Paris allowed me the opportunity to reflect on the joy of traveling with the actor Eli Wallach and director Paul Mazursky, two greats that the film community has just lost
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‘Hercules’ Review: Dwayne Johnson in an Epic That Never Feels Epic
The mythological hero may be half-man and half-god, but Brett Ratner turns him into half-superhero, half-dullard
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‘And So It Goes’ Review: Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton Shine as Rob Reiner Channels Nancy Meyers
It’s pure trifle, but the seasoned stars will win you over as next-door enemies who embark on a romance in their twilight years
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‘Magic in the Moonlight’ Review: Woody Allen’s Ugly Vision of Love
Emma Stone couldn’t be more charming, but her on-screen romance with Colin Firth couldn’t be more contrived or ickiliy age-inappropriate
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‘The Purge: Anarchy’ Review: Horror Sequel Looks Dumb by Trying to Appear Smart
Returning director James DeMonaco flirts with messages about politics, society, and inequality, but they’re all dazzle camouflage for a silly and squalid shoot-em-up
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Charlie Sheen ‘Hammered’ Taco Bell Video Not So Funny Considering His History
Sheen’s drug- and alcohol-fueled troubles cost him TV’s best-paying role in 2010
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‘Sex Tape’ Review: Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel Go the Distance, but the Script Can’t
The foreplay in this internet-age farce is promising, but the comedy deflates by the disappointing climax; Rob Lowe proves his comedic staying power with another scene-stealing, supporting bit
