The Coen Brothers' latest comedy “Hail, Caesar!” is a loving tribute to the era of classical Hollywood, meticulously crafted with layers of reference, inside jokes, and ...
If you're one of those people — and I'm with you — who roll your eyes when handed a pair of 3-D glasses at the multiplex, wondering if all this rigmarole is REALLY neces...
“The Finest Hours,” based on the true story of the valiant 1952 Coast Guard rescue of a sinking oil tanker off the coast of Massachusetts, splits in two much like the wo...
Watching the “Ride Along” films (this is the second installment in the buddy cop franchise) is an exercise in succumbing to Kevin Hart's unique, manic charms. By the end...
January’s a notoriously rough month for movie releases. Most audiences are catching up on their late-December Oscar contenders, so the new release pickings are slim. But...
Of course Michael Moore exaggerates. Of course he engages in cheerful, unabashed cherry-picking. Of course he sees black and white where most of us see shades of gray.
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If you are an extreme sports junkie, “Point Break” is cocaine. If you are a fan of good writing, it’s a placebo.
This “Point Break” is less of a remake and more of a re-...
LOS ANGELES — Alejandro G. Inarritu knew Leonardo DiCaprio would go to the ends of the earth to make the 19th century survival epic “The Revenant” exactly as the famousl...
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s frontier survival saga “The Revenant,” filmed in the Canadian Rockies, seeks to join the ranks of Werner Herzog’s “Fitzcarraldo” and Franci...
“Concussion,” written and directed by Peter Landesman, establishes two things right away - the extreme reverence that people have for football, through a Hall of Fame ac...
