Reviews
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‘The Bye Bye Man’ Review: Fear Takes a Hike In Overwrought Teen Flick
Clichés, cheap shocks, and talkiness mar this Freddy Krueger-ish yarn about a summoned spirit who foments delusions
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‘The Autopsy of Jane Doe’ Review: Emile Hirsch Slices Into Slow-Burn Horror
Hirsch and Brian Cox co-star as father-and-son morticians with a horrifying mystery to solve
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‘Toni Erdmann’ Review: Cannes Hit Sees Prankster Father Mortify Uptight Daughter, Out of Love
Marin Ade’s brilliant comedy explores family connections and generational divides
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‘Passengers’ Review: Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt Are Lost in Space
A morally dubious set-up to this glittering starship romance makes for queasy viewing and empty action thrills
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‘Silence’ Review: Martin Scorsese’s Passion Project Is a Fascinating, Flawed Endurance Test
Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver star as Jesuit priests in feudal Japan in a long, evocative and beautifully shot trial of the soul
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‘Assassin’s Creed’ Review: Michael Fassbender Flounders in Another Bad Video-Game Movie
Reteaming with his “Macbeth” co-star (Marion Cotillard) and director, Fassbender’s latest tries and fails to break the game-to-film curse
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‘Barry’ Review: Sharp Indie Focuses on College-Age Obama
The future president’s first year at Columbia makes for a winning portrait of searching and struggling with one’s place in the world
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‘Fences’ Review: Denzel Washington and Viola Davis Take Center Stage
Washington’s third directorial effort is his surest yet, honoring August Wilson’s powerful evocation of an African-American patriarch in 1950s Pittsburgh
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‘Neruda’ Review: Gael García Bernal Pursues Poetry and Politics
Pablo Larrain (“Jackie”) takes a surrealist approach to poet Pablo Neruda’s public and artistic lives in this non-traditional biopic
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‘Collateral Beauty’ Review: Will Smith and All-Star Cast Collide in Sentimental Trainwreck
Talented actors are reduced to quivering lips and puddles of tears in a hokey tale of loss and interconnectedness
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‘All We Had’ Review: Katie Holmes’ Directorial Debut Is Strictly by the Book
The actress works both sides of the camera in this cliché-riddled tale of a mother and daughter rambling through life
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‘Incarnate’ Review: Aaron Eckhart Never Excites as an Exorcist
This half-baked horror flick is a maddening hodgepodge of ideas that range from undercooked to unoriginal
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‘Jackie’ Review: Natalie Portman Provides Glimpses, But Not the Life, of Mrs. Kennedy
Director Pablo Larrain’s impressionistic portrait of JFK’s widow mixes familiar images and intrusive moments that don’t quite add up
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‘Mifune: The Last Samurai’ Review: Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg Honor Japanese Cinema Legend
Toshiro Mifune and his unforgettable collaborations with Akira Kurosawa are recalled in this celebratory doc about the indelible actor
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‘Bad Santa 2’ Review: Billy Bob Thornton’s St. Nick Never Sounded So Sour
This numbingly repetitive holiday crime comedy is the most cynical of re-gifts
