Nathan Bartlebaugh

[Review] X-Men: Days of Future Past

The world that opens X-Men: Days of Future Past is a dismal, barren wasteland, stacked tall with the bones and corpses of extinguished super-beings while chamel...

[Review] Locke

In Steven Knight’s Locke the whole wide world is reduced to the nighttime interiors of Tom Hardy’s car. For most films, this kind of gimmicky paring-down would ...

[Review] Million Dollar Arm

It’s likely that you’ll know well ahead of entering the theater whether or not Disney’s Million Dollar Arm is your kind of entertainment. The final product—a we...

[Review] Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return

Early on in Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return, our tornado-riding, dimension-hopping heroine realizes that the world she’s come back to is a very different, dimin...

[Review] Whitewash

The frozen, gray confines of a forest in Quebec become an unstable purgatory for hapless Thomas Haden Church in Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais' darkly comic Whitewash. ...

[Tribeca Review] Extraterrestrial

What is it about interstellar travel that seemingly halts an advanced species’ sense of sophistication? If Hollywood and the internet conspiracy cultists are to...

[Review] The Quiet Ones

It may be called The Quiet Ones, but the latest supernatural offering from revamped Hammer Studios is anything but. John Pogues would-be chiller may not raise t...

[Review] The Other Woman

The Other Woman is one of those lame comedies that pretends allegiance to the female demographic but spends most of its time toiling around in sub-moronic, play...

[Review] Brick Mansions

A few months back I was watching a small indie thriller called Hours, and was surprised with a personal revelation; I’m going to miss Paul Walker in the movies....

[Review] 13 Sins

How far would you go for the “right” amount of money? The very rich preying on the desperation of the poor is obviously not a new concept in fiction, but rec...