LOS ANGELES — A family get-together starts out strange and quickly enters nightmare territory in “The Visit,” a horror-thriller that turns soiled adult diapers into a mo...
You’ll see much to applaud in the B-movie action pleasures on display in “Transporter Refueled.” You can’t do much better than this for a last gasp of mindless cinematic...
In the wake of “Wild,” in which Reese Witherspoon’s version of Cheryl Strayed hiked the Pacific Crest Trail and reckoned with her demons, we now have “Mild,” better know...
Part electronic dance music tutorial and part love letter to Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley, “We Are Your Friends” is a surprisingly accessible and sweet story of a gr...
Not since Saigon in the 1970s has an American operation in Southeast Asia been as ill-conceived as “No Escape,” a taut, well-made and entirely dubious thriller.
Where d...
A soup spoon turns lethal in the unlikely hands of sweet and spacy stoner Mike (Jesse Eisenberg) in the violently paranoid action comedy “American Ultra.” Mike's a lot l...
It has been a good year for pop music on film, from the Brian Wilson biopic, “Love and Mercy,” to the celebration of retro hip-hop, “Dope.” The trend continues with the ...
The latest cinematic Rube Goldberg machine from Guy Ritchie, “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,” sure is pretty to look at. That’s about all that this particular property rehaul ...
“Fantastic” is a strange name to claim for oneself. Pretty egomaniacal, really. It implies a certain level of pizzazz, of genius, of flash-bang razzle dazzle. And with c...
You wouldn't expect the latest kid-friendly release to offer up an opportunity to discuss cinematic traditions, but “Shaun the Sheep” from “Wallace and Gromit” and “Chic...
