Reviews
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‘Going in Style’ Review: Michael Caine and Company Rob a Bank, But the Film Steals No Hearts
Replacing the melancholic sting of the 1979 original with slick, empty caper clichés, director Zach Braff wastes a great cast
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‘Gently Down the Stream’ Theater Review: Harvey Fierstein Throws a Pity Party
The star offers tedium and sympathy in Martin Sherman’s play. Another new drama about same-sex marriage, “Daniel’s Husband,” is only marginally more endurable
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‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’ Review: Jessica Chastain Saves Polish Jews But Can’t Rescue the Movie
Turning an incredible true story of a couple who sheltered Jews into bland historical fare is the most noteworthy of the film’s shortcomings
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‘Ghost in the Shell’ Review: Scarlett Johansson Takes Us to a Souped-Up Yet Familiar Future
Too aesthetically intoxicating to ignore but too derivative to adore, this live-action take on an anime classic is a frustrating tangle
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‘Wilson’ Review: Woody Harrelson Lightens Up a Dark Daniel Clowes Character
Harrelson’s needy misanthrope demands love, stomps feelings, never learns — but it’s fine
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‘CHiPS’ Review: Dax Shepard Commits Highway Slobbery With Unfunny Redo of 70s Series
Shepard and Michael Peña play motorcycle cops Jon and Ponch in this loud, strained moving violation of an action-comedy
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‘After the Storm’ Review: Hirokazu Kore-eda Crafts Another Masterpiece
The director of “Our Little Sister” returns with a deeply felt family tale, focused on a deadbeat dad trying to do better
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‘Mean Dreams’ Review: Bill Paxton Relishes Being Evil in One of His Final Roles
The late actor plays a crooked cop in rural Canada in his penultimate film
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‘T2 Trainspotting’ Review: Danny Boyle Gets the Band Back Together
Renton, Begbie, Sickboy and Spud are older but barely wiser in an OK sequel that turns disappointment into a dominant theme
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‘Song to Song’ Review: Terrence Malick’s Austin City Love Story Has Its Limits
Beautiful but empty tone poem/love triangle that shows a great filmmaker in a mythopoetic rut
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‘The Belko Experiment’ Review: Pink-Slip This Office Massacre Horror-Satire
It’s bring-your-homicidal-tendencies-to-work day in this bloody dull lark from writer James Gunn (“Guardians of the Galaxy”)
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‘The Most Hated Woman in America’ Review: Melissa Leo Shines in Shaky Atheist Biopic
SXSW: You can believe Leo as abrasive American Atheists founder Madalyn Murray O’Hair, but the kidnapping saga that ended her life makes a weak framing device
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‘The Sense of an Ending’ Review: Jim Broadbent Gets Swept Up in Past Romance
Many of the best features of Julian Barnes’ acclaimed novel don’t make the leap to the screen
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‘Catfight’ Review: Sandra Oh and Anne Heche Beat Each Other to a Bloody Pulp
Writer-director Onur Tukel heavy-handedly satirizes the military-industrial complex by turning his lead actresses into war machines
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‘Before I Fall’ Review: Teen Live-Die-Repeat Drama Isn’t the Same Ol’ Same Ol’
This YA adaptation with Zoey Deutch as a popular girl in a time loop of life and death has sincerity and style
