300: Rise of an Empire review: Artemisia rocks
Eva Green stalks this movie with pride and honor, and is almost the only thing worth watching amidst frenetic CGI battles and endless ancient carnage.
reviews by genre
The Missing Picture review: giving cinematic life to unillustrated memories
A blend of documentary and memoir that’s like a dream and a nightmare, though it’s more commendable than actually engaging.
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa review: male privilege on parade
An unfunny “comedy” full of cheap crudity and punches down at targets who don’t deserve it. For some movies there should be hazard pay.
The Great Beauty review: pretty ugly
As a parody of Italian cinema, it’s tedious. Except we’re supposed to be taking this seriously. As if.
Omar movie review: trust no one
Palestine’s official submission for the Best Foreign Language Oscar is terse, tense suspense drama, and less overtly political than you might expect.
The Lunchbox review: when souls meet (for a meal)
A charming, bittersweet, utterly chaste love affair forged over food and cemented by kindred spirits.
Mr. Peabody & Sherman review: timey-wimey doggy-waggy
Wonderfully, sweetly geeky, and full of the sort of goofy yet intriguing adventures that inspire kiddie curiosity in history and art and science.
Non-Stop review: your popcorn bucket doubles as a floatation device
There’s a delicious cleverness to this very silly but very entertaining flick.
20 Feet from Stardom: raw real voices
This must-see music documentary introduces us to the extraordinary women you didn’t know were behind some of the songs you know by heart.
Cutie and the Boxer review: a canvas of her own
A sly, subversive portrait of an artist finally finding her voice… and the “genius” husband in whose shadow she has long lingered.
