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Film Review: Fast And Furious 6 Wait until it is crazy hot out and the A/C will make this film enjoyable. | 5/24/2013
Film Review: The Iceman A hit man who hid his life of crime from his family gets the biopic treatment, with lackluster results. | 5/22/2013
Film Review: In the House This dark comedy uses the tricks up its sleeve to skewer the pretensions of the middle class. | 5/22/2013
The Epic Career of Screenwriter Dan Shere From viral videos to feature length films. | 5/22/2013
Film Review: Mud The love and pain of family are on dynamic display. | 5/8/2013
Stealth Stardom: Michael Shannon The most recognizable face you don’t know in Hollywood. | 5/15/2013
Is Robert Downey Jr. sick of 'Iron Man'? Has Robert Downey Jr. had enough? Called to duty as Tony Stark four times in five years (2015's The Avengers 2 will make number five), the... | 5/2/2013
Film Review: Iron Man 3 Even if Downey seems bored with his fifth time in the suit, this is still a fun thrill-ride | 5/1/2013
'To the Wonder,' a lesser effort by Terrence Malick As a fan of director Terrence Malick’s work, it might seem odd to criticize his latest film for its lack of specificity. After all, anyone versed in Malick’s... | 5/1/2013
Film Review: Pain and Gain Dick Joke Cinema | 4/26/2013
Film Review: The Company You Keep Robert Redford’s latest thriller is a good enough run, just more sober than snappy. | 4/25/2013
Robert Redford’s 'The Company You Keep' isn't bad, but could've used some help from two guys named Sidney Where are the two Sidneys when you really need them? Either Sidney Pollack or Sidney Lumet could have easily injected Robert Redford's old-fashioned... | 4/24/2013
Film Review: Disconnect Playing catch up with the times, this latest multilayered, ensemble-casted masterpiece-of-shit will raise your blood pressure or lower your eyelids. | 4/19/2013
Opening in Orlando Movies opening this week: Arthur Newman, The Big Wedding, Pain and Gain | 4/24/2013
Film Review: Upstream Color A brain-controlling parasite gives a man the locust-like ability to suck the will — and cash — from his unwitting victim. | 4/24/2013
'Room 237': 'The Shining' and how Kubrick and Hitler killed the Indians "There ain't nothing in room 237." — Scatman Crothers, The Shining | 4/24/2013
Film Review: To the Wonder Terrence Malick’s first contemporary story offers stunning visuals but unconvincing characters | 4/17/2013
The Place Beyond the Pines Ryan Gosling stars in this lyrical ode to father-son relationships and tortured male identity | 4/17/2013
Film Review: The Dirties A Revenge Fantasy Run Amok | 4/16/2013
Film Review: Trance Art heist film’s plot is full of holes, but savvy imagery makes it a gorgeous failure. | 4/12/2013
Film Review: The Place Beyond the Pines Runaway endeavor leaves audiences with dashed hopes — but with Ryan Gosling as eye-candy consolation. | 4/12/2013
'The Place Beyond The Pines' looks and feels better than it really is Director Derek Cianfrance sure likes to put Ryan Gosling in some God-awful T-shirts. As if the dollar store eagle-emblazoned crew neck he sported... | 4/11/2013
Film Review: Room 237 Kubrick:Insinuation or Insanity? Film theorists analyze or, more accurately, overanalyze Stanly Kubrick’s seminal film The Shining. | 4/10/2013
Film Review: No Voting on dictatorship. If that sounds weird, you’ll be surprised that the premise leads to a very watchable political film | 4/3/2013
Film Review: G.I. Joe: Retaliation Celebrate the bullet. Gun-crazy, speed-addled sequel is just a live-action two-hour toy commercial | 3/29/2013
'The Gatekeepers,' Israel's unprecedented look at itself Except for isolated cases like Errol Morris’ Oscar-winning documentary The Fog of War (starring former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara)... | 3/27/2013
Film Review: Beyond the Hills Out of the past. Romanian import is not for the faint of heart | 3/27/2013
Film Review: The Croods Fossil fools. CGI comedy about the ascent of man has few laughs, but stunning visuals | 3/22/2013
Film Review: Like Someone in Love Iranian director’s latest effort seems superficial and episodic | 3/20/2013
'Stoker' is all drips and no substance No matter what the Hollywood vehicle, Mia Wasikowska always makes for good company during the ride. In Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook's moody American debut... | 3/20/2013
Film Review: Gatekeepers The story of the Israeli Shin Bet | 3/20/2013
'West of Memphis' is an interesting, if unoriginal, retelling of the West Memphis Three How you receive Amy Berg's (Deliver Us from Evil) documentary depends a lot on what you already know. Those who have never heard of the West Memphis 3... | 3/20/2013
Film Review: Incredible Burt Wonderstone Not-so-grand illusion. New Carell comedy suffers from a script that doesn’t do the trick | 3/18/2013
Park Chan-Wook: Coming to America Quizzing an Asian director on his films, his past and family | 3/13/2013
Film Review: West of Memphis Railroaded. The story is a gripping one, but the ground has been covered before — and better | 3/13/2013
Film Review: Stoker Dark but empty. Acclaimed Korean director’s American debut is moody and suspenseful but lacks substance | 3/13/2013
Film Review: Oz the Great and Powerful Maybe Kansas ain’t so bad? Not long into this Oz prequel, you’ll be wanting for your own ruby slippers. | 3/8/2013
'Jack and the Giant Slayer' This big-production spectacle seems tailor made for an undiscriminating audience | 3/6/2013
Film Review: Lore How grim was my valley. After the fall of Nazi Germany, abandoned children traverse a shattered world | 3/6/2013
Film Review: John Dies at the End The going gets weird. Tailor-made cult film starts strong but can’t sustain the freakiness | 3/6/2013
Film Review: Jack the Giant Slayer Giant problems. Even CGI magic can’t stop a bad script from blighting this beanstalk | 3/1/2013
Film Review: The Sweeney Police and thieves. British film draws on BBC crime dramas but reaches its limits | 3/1/2013
'A Royal Affair,' a true story of love and betrayal An idealistic and charismatic doctor. A mad king. A neglected queen. Can you see where this is going? What makes director and co-writer Nikolaj Arcel's... | 2/28/2013
‘West of Memphis’ New documentary is an interesting, if unoriginal, retelling of the West Memphis Three story | 2/27/2013
Film Review: Barbara Deutsche treat. Film set in East Germany explores the political and the personal | 2/20/2013
Twilight of the Goths Special effects get the better of a supernatural-teen romance | 2/20/2013
Review: A Good Day to Die Hard Yippie-ki-nay! Big, dumb and loud, this latest installment is just a money grab | 2/15/2013
Review: Beautiful Creatures Missed spell. Romance with teen witch lacks reel magic | 2/14/2013
'Beautiful Creatures' embraces "classic stupidity" | 2/13/2013
Michael Haneke's 'Amour' holds a mirror to Death's harrowing face In Michael Haneke's Amour, Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) are an affectionate elderly French couple enjoying their twilight years in comfort. | 2/13/2013
Side Effects Whatever happened to the A-list suspense thriller? | 2/7/2013
Review: Wild in the Streets Hooligans’ island. Royal Oak Film Society presents a close-up look at a very unusual sporting event | 2/6/2013
Review: Side Effects Dose call. Polanski and Hitchcock and De Palma, oh my! | 2/6/2013
Review: Warm Bodies Zombie love. Undead boy eats brains, meets pretty girl | 2/1/2013
Sundance 2013 It’s all about who you don’t know Our intrepid film reviewer takes in Sundance 2013 | 1/30/2013
Review: Amour Grim weeper. French film holds a mirror to Death’s harrowing face | 1/30/2013
Sundance 2013 It's all in who you don't know: An outsider's view of Sundance | 1/30/2013
Review: Holy Motors Stop this crazy thing! Puzzling, absurd and over-the-top, Leos Carax’s latest impresses our critic | 1/23/2013
Review: Mama Leap of wraith. Horror film is formula-filled | 1/18/2013
Review: Luv Hate the game. Coming-of-age drama aims high but doesn’t make it | 1/18/2013
Review: Sister Despite the tough themes, this neorealist short story never gets maudlin | 1/16/2013
'Gangster Squad' Poor screenwriting reveals that this movie is all style, no substance | 1/16/2013
Review: The Impossible The disaster is amazing, it’s our pampered surrogates who are the problem | 1/14/2013
Review: Gangster Squad Mobster movies misses the mark | 1/11/2013
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters Snapshots in time — Documentary look at art photographer seeking 'moments between moments' | 1/10/2013
Opening this week Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away 3D, The Guilt Trip, Les Miserables | 1/9/2013
Not Fade Away Generation enough — Flick set in the 1960s rocks | 1/9/2013
'Not Fade Away' fades away God save us from boomer nostalgia and its endless idealization of the ’60s. Look, I get it. It was an important time for rock and roll... | 1/9/2013
Critical review A look at the good, the bad and the complicated from our film writers | 1/2/2013
Promised Land This American lie — Matt Damon plays a fracking frontman who gets more than he bargained for | 1/2/2013
The Guilt Trip Good-natured road comedy plays it a little too straight — but at least you can bring along Mom | 12/26/2012
'Django Unchained': Slavery, Tarantino style In Django Unchained, bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) readily expresses his disgust for slavery. But after killing... | 12/19/2012
Jack Reacher Overkill — Cruise's latest bang off | 12/21/2012
Stages of Film Intoxication Hollywood and booze have been partners in crime since the studios first started putting light to celluloid. The industry, long populated... | 12/19/2012
Opening this week Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away 3D, The Guilt Trip, Les Miserables | 12/19/2012
Django Unchained Tarantino-style revisionism — Last time Jews got Hitler, this time a slave mauls the Old South | 12/19/2012
The Hobbit When more is less — Peter Jackson bulks up and weighs down this tale of Middle Earth | 12/14/2012
Any Day Now I'm coming out — Alan Cummings gives a breakthrough performance in indie weeper | 12/13/2012
'The Hobbit', a less unexpected journey than you might think If there's one word that describes The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey it's "more." More action. More digital effects. More characters. | 12/12/2012
The Hobbit Peter Jackson's latest installment in the Lord of the Rings series suffers from too much of a good thing | 12/12/2012
The Central Park Five We all fall down &mdash Rape case brought out the ugliest in us, and doc shows how five paid the price | 12/12/2012
A Q&A with director Sacha Gervasi For filmmaker Sacha Gervasi, reinvention has been both an inevitable professional trajectory and a personal test of will. For a brief while, the one-time assistant... | 12/5/2012
Half-cocked Hitchcock’s script grazes the surface | 12/5/2012
Burn Flames, sweat and tears — Detroit's fires and the men who fight them | 12/3/2012
The House I Live In News from the front — The War on Drugs as a war on 'undesirables' | 11/30/2012
Life of Pi On the scenic sea — Gorgeous to look at, but ... | 11/28/2012
Hitchcock was 'the ultimate voyeur' And director Sacha Gervasi goes for broke (literally) to tell his story | 11/28/2012
Hitchcock Hopkins is brilliant, but the subject remains a mystery | 11/26/2012
A film fan's gift guide Toys, tools and a classic box set | 11/21/2012
Life of Pi On the scenic sea — Gorgeous to look at, but ... | 11/21/2012
Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln' celebrates the glorious mess that is democracy Don't let the battle scenes in the trailers fool you: Lincoln is less about rifles and cannons and more about dandified lawyers and crotchety politicians in... | 11/20/2012
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel Fashionably superficial — Style-maven doc isn't too deep — which may be just right | 11/16/2012
A Royal Affair Great Danes — How the Enlightenment came to Denmark | 11/16/2012
British Television Advertising Awards Commercial success — Reason to envy those English ads | 11/16/2012
Twilight: Breaking Dawn — Part 2 The sparkle is gone from this undead saga | 11/16/2012
Twilight: Breaking Dawn — Part 2 All sucked up — Last sparkle gone in undead saga | 11/16/2012
Lincoln Honest, Abe's vibrant — Spielberg flick brings history alive | 11/16/2012
Smashed Modest 12-step drama shows the hard road to recovery | 11/16/2012
Lincoln Steven Spielberg's new biopic is less about war, more about the spirit of Civl War-era politics | 11/14/2012
'Skyfall': Teaching an old dog new tricks As it turns out, you can teach an old dog new tricks. When Jason Bourne hit the big screen in 2002, many heralded the other JB's inevitable demise. | 11/9/2012

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