2014 theatrical releases archives - Page 4 of 28

Whiplash movie review: music as a savage beast

Fri, Jan 16, 2015

If you didn’t think music could involve actual blood, sweat, and tears, this breathtakingly visceral coming-of-artistic-age drama will set you straight.

American Sniper movie review: a pawn in the game, misplayed

Wed, Jan 14, 2015

78 comments

A banal, bland tribute to things no one questions as laudable (though it has to misrepresent its subject to do so). But Bradley Cooper is very good.

Unbroken movie review: where war movies have gone before

Sat, Dec 27, 2014

5 comments

Jack O’Connell is the most exciting young actor to break out in years, and he makes this overly familiar film worth your time… if only just.

Annie movie review: abandoned child

Wed, Dec 17, 2014

6 comments

Quvenzhané Wallis is adorable and Cameron Diaz is a hoot. But the movie is energetic yet bland, inoffensive and instantly forgettable.

Wild movie review (London Film Festival)

Mon, Dec 15, 2014

21 comments

A film full of spectacular landscapes of both the natural world and the human spirit. This is what it looks like when women get to be people onscreen.

Merchants of Doubt documentary review: capitalism kills

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

2 comments

Opens our eyes to the PR sleight of hand that huge corporations deploy to protect their profits when facts and science aren’t going their way. Enraging.