Lawless is the first John Hillcoat picture one could describe as fun. The director's two previous pictures -- his satisfying adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The...
Did you ever wonder what a guy like Sacha Baron Cohen could accomplish if his satirical bent towards political upheaval had more than cheap laughs as its goal? ...
I’m not sure what to make of the core argument of 2016: Obama’s America, a film with exotic locations and a logic that seems to fall apart as it hurls towards i...
It is easy to dismiss a movie like Premium Rush sight unseen. The trailer involves a lot of philosophizing about the virtues of the fixed-gear bike cut with som...
Samsara is not a traditional movie experience by any means, specifically due to the manner in which it defies the standard approach of both narrative and docume...
Sylvester Stallone is a senior citizen. And he’s not too old for this shit. The Expendables 2 is a glorious summer guilty pleasure – unapologetically badass, it...
In Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, Joaquin Phoenix plays one of the most unique alcoholics I've ever seen in a movie. What Aaron Johnson did to pot in Oliver...
I can't wait for the Director's Cut. No, not Criterion's much ballyhooed 216-minute edit of Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate. I'm talking about Salim Akil's Spark...
Christopher Kenneally's Side by Side is a comprehensive and diplomatic documentary about the ongoing combat between two feisty fields of filmmaking -- the one, ...
Though it sports a somewhat intriguing one-line premise (a married couple who can't get pregnant literally bury their hopes for the child in their garden, only ...
