Reviews

‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’ Review: Michael Bay Restarts His Wackiest Franchise With Limited Spark Paramount Pictures The Transformers franchise has never been about humans – or,…

Music Box Films 2011’s Headhunters is a refreshing blast of blackly comic Norwegian fun that mixes laughs and blood-soaked shenanigans into a deliriously enjoyable cinematic cocktail,…

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. To hear it directly from Tommy DeVito (Vincent Piazza), there were only three choices for the youth of Belleville, New Jersey…

IFC Midnight What is the point of prefacing your horror film with text stating that it’s based on a true story? Obviously it’s meant to…

BBC America The concern with Orphan Black – as with any series built on an ongoing mystery-based narrative – has always been that it’s a…

CJ Entertainment Writer/director Lee Leong-beom’s second feature, 2010’s The Man from Nowhere, not only became the highest-grossing film in South Korea that year but it…

Canal+ The art and seductive power of conversation lies at the heart of the work of Éric Rohmer, the French New Wave filmmaker who passed…

Tribeca Film Festival Roman Polanski’s Venus in Fur is a film haunted by an epigraph. It’s a quotation from the apocryphal Book of Judith, used first…

Debra Granik Ronnie Hall’s nickname may be Stray Dog, but he is anything but a stray left on his own. Debra Granik’s documentary, Stray Dog,…