Reviews

As Halloween Movies Go, John Carpenter's Were Funnier

A Pilot For A Show You Wouldn’t Watch

Seven Psychopaths is as irreverent a send up of crime films as you could hope for, buoyed by genuine moments of emotion and being by far the funniest movie of the year.

Not Everything Needs To Come Back From the Dead

Mindless But Painless Sequel

This near future comedy is the softest of science fiction, but beneath its cold, robotic exterior beats a very human heart that is impossible not to attach to

This time travel movie is less of the action chase film the advertising would lead you to believe, but in the tangled web of consequence and human foibles comes one of the best science fiction films in recent memory.

An unusually heartfelt teen story

Less a narrative about Scientology and more an examination of what drives people to question and need answers, The Master becomes an intimate film about what it means to lack purpose set amidst history.

Not a Classic At-Bat, but Clint and Amy Adams Make the Play

The fifth installment of this increasingly unapproachable franchise is still a mess of lore and bad CG set pieces, but a renewed faith in the weirdness of its universe propels it to new camp heights.

This light comedy straddles a strange line between anti-romcom and coming of age story, but its real charm lies in the truth of its look into who and what a comedian is.

This nightmare vision of one day in the car of one of the world’s most important men ends up being a difficult but infinitely rewarding attempt to encapsulate the sickness of the modern condition.

For a movie that sells itself as being more than a rom-com, this charming story never really breaks new ground but instead focuses on smart, human moments—and the rapidly rising talent of Rashida Jones.

A Moonshine War to Make You Long for “Boardwalk Empire”