Reviews
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The Lazarus Effect Barely Gives Rise to Our Interest
Relativity Studios Popular culture is filled with cautionary tales of what happens when overly ambitious scientists play god, and from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to Stuart…
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Focus Puts Will Smith Front and Center of an Attractive and Affable Thriller
Warner Bros. Movies about con men come in a few different varieties – from the broadly comical (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) to the more dramatically entertaining…
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Wild Tales Is a Beautifully Chaotic Anthology of Anger, Love and Revenge
Sony Pictures Classics Anthology films seem to back in vogue these past few years, but the vast majority of them – if not all – are…
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Kung Fu Elliot and Digging Up the Marrow Have Fun With the Documentary Format
The Orchard Two of this week’s limited releases tell their stories in documentary form, but while neither of them seem all that believable only one…
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Hot Tub Time Machine 2 Suggests a Worse Hot Tub-Related Find Than STDs
Paramount Pictures Time travel can be a tricky subject for a film to nail down, and it grows even tougher when it comes to a…
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Mae Whitman is All That in ‘The DUFF’
Bianca (Mae Whitman) is a normal teenager with best friends, a high school crush and a wardrobe filled with overalls and flannels, but her world…
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Kingsman: The Secret Service Is a Spy Comedy Tailored Toward the Kick-Ass Crowd
20th Century Fox The James Bond franchise is three films into its darker, more serious reboot phase (with a fourth due in theaters this Christmas), and…
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‘Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead’ Leads This Week’s Limited Releases
The best film hitting theaters this weekend, whether in wide or limited release, is the ridiculously funny faux-documentary from New Zealand, What We Do in…
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Jeff Bridges and Nicolas Cage Play Marble-Mouthed Mentors in Seventh Son and Outcast
Universal Pictures It wasn’t that long ago that Jeff Bridges and Nicolas Cage were known as Academy Award-winning actors with talent to burn, but time…