[Review] Unbroken
Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken, the true-life story of Olympic winner Louis Zamperini’s World War II travails, is a film that specializes in visions both mythic and ...
Nathan Bartlebaugh
[Review] The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
There’s a moment early in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies that captures all of the restless and vivid immediacy that director Peter Jackson has freque...
[Review] Exodus: Gods and Kings
Ridley Scott and the biblical epic seem like an intriguing proposition, but Exodus: Gods and Kings, the latest take on the story of Moses, proves to be a vacuou...
[Review] Horrible Bosses 2
Arriving to the cinematic Thanskgiving table like that chunky jello salad no one recalls asking for, Horrible Bosses 2 proves to be more of the same forced, unn...
[Review] A Most Violent Year
J.C. Chandor’s A Most Violent Year starts out on just the right moody note for a searing, low-level crime drama; a young oil truck driver is waylaid by thugs wh...
[Review] The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
At long last, revolution has finally come to Panem, the ruthless, tyrannical society at the heart of The Hunger Games franchise. As it turns out, that revolutio...
[Review] Beyond the Lights
The heady, emotional lyrics of Nina Simone’s Blackbird keep rising up under the skin of Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Beyond the Lights, revealing the earnest, strivi...
[Review] The Book of Life
When Guillermo Del Toro produces an animated film about traveling into the afterlife and then releases it in time for Halloween, one would be right to expect so...
[Review] Kill The Messenger
Following the leads, pushing for the truth, and refusing to back down are the qualities that distinguish the great news journalists from everyone else. In Micha...
[Review] Dracula Untold
Dragging the dark, kicking and screaming, into the light is the intentional aim of Universal’s Dracula Untold, an obvious experiment in re-imagining the studio’...
