A United Kingdom movie review: a love that changed the world
Insistent chemistry between David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike fuels a true story of passionate romance with an urgent message about love as radical and political.
Rosamund Pike
Return to Sender movie review: yes, return to sender
For almost the entire running time of this movie, we have no idea what it is about. What is it trying to say? What sort of story is it trying to tell?
87th Academy Awards: the Oscar nominees (and winners) for 2015
Now with winners indicated.
OFCS 2014 award winners
The Online Film Critics Society is one of the orgs for which I help choose year-end best-ofs.
Gone Girl movie review: proof of wife
Ruins itself as even high-toned cinematic junk food when its justifiable cynicism morphs into something manipulative and dangerously disingenuous.
Hector and the Search for Happiness movie review: unhappymess
A rich white man tours the misery of others to learn about happiness. Yes, it is as offensive as it sounds.
Jack Reacher (review)
Like a midseason episode of a basic-cable detective show you’ve never heard of.
Wrath of the Titans (review)
And now we learn the secret of that dreadful Clash of the Titans movie from a coupla years back. Its incoherence? Its soullessness? All by design.
Wrath of the Titans (trailer)
There’s so much conflagration here that I’m pretty sure one of the CGI AV guys is Beavis…
The Big Year (review)
A charming little movie that is so amiably ridiculous that you’re sure it must have been invented, but it’s based on a real wacky thing…
