Review: Bridge of Spies
With the mountains of awards and Saharas of praise heaped upon them over their decades-long careers, it would be difficult to classify...
Review: Mr. Holmes
The Sherlock Holmes at the center of director Bill Condon's Mr. Holmes is 93, unsound of body, and slipping into the early stages of...
Review: Crimson Peak
"Ghosts are real," begins Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak, and the first image we see is that of Mia Wasikowska's Edith Cushing, pale...
Review: The Gift
The premise may be familiar, but actor Joel Edgerton's intelligent screenplay and confident direction elevate the psychological thriller,...
Review: Knock Knock
Bad things apparently happen to Keanu Reeves when left home alone with a dog. Don't worry, the dog remains unharmed in the actor's latest...
Review: Pan
Never has a spectacle been less spectacular and more hollow than Joe Wright's Pan. The film purports to chart the origin story of Peter...
Review: Sicario
"Nothing will make sense to you. And you will doubt everything I do. By the end, you will understand," Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro) tells...
Review: Black Mass
It's not always easy to tell the cops from the robbers, one character notes in Black Mass. How many gangster films have audiences seen...
Review: The Walk
Never forget. The Walk urges us to remember and celebrate. Post-9/11, the Twin Towers have been a tricky proposition for filmmakers, who...
Review: The Martian
The Martian is director Ridley Scott's rendition of a workplace comedy. It might be odd to describe it as such, but not entirely...