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In Theaters

The Great Gatsby

Audacious, over-long, and, occasionally dazzling, Baz Luhrmann has

delivered an adaptation that’s imperfect but also pretty darn fascinating...

Iron Man 3

Never intending to reinvent the wheel, this high flying chapter

happily settles for a big splash into the wheelhouse...

What Jackie Robinson achieved, on and off the baseball field, is the stuff of legend.

It deserves to be. This decent, formulaic salute does the job of recounting it,

yet never shows half the ambition of the people it depicts...

To The Wonder

Artistry aside, I do still wonder: for a movie with this much

dancing and twirling, how come it still feels like a ton of bricks?

The Company You Keep

There’s something wonderfully reassuring about seeing Robert Redford back,

directing and starring in a political thriller about the Weather Underground...

Admission

The biggest problem with this movie is that Tina Fey didn’t write it...

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

Not particularly magical, but thanks to its bevy of

stars, we leave this mess with a smile on our faces...

Jack the Giant Slayer

No, this is not your father’s Jack in the Beanstalk: under Bryan Singer’s

watch, this giant reboot is one definitely for the 21st Century audience...

Stoker

Once this Gothic thriller stops trying so hard, and lets itsnatural

freakflag fly, this horror becomes quite the entertainment...

A Good Day to Die Hard

A bazillion shots are fired, a gazillion vehicles and buildings are

blown up. Oops: sorry! Did I forget to say “SPOILER ALERT”?

Identity Theft

If this is the best we can offer two very fine actors, we’re in trouble.

As an industry and a culture. In other words, Melissa McCarthy

and Jason Bateman deserve a lot better. And so do we...

Side Effects

In his purported farewell to big screen directing, Steven Soderbergh has

delivered a salute to some film masters that’s also pretty darn fun...

Gangster Squad

Terrific actors, an irresistible story: so how come this pulpy

shoot-em-upnever equals the sum of its oh so snazzy parts?

Django Unchained

Expanding on his theme of historical revenge, Quentin Tarentino is at his bloody

best here.To borrow aphrase, this one ‘floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee’..

Les Mis

I feel like one of those reality show judges, sadly grimacing as I deliver the news. Audience

boos me. How could I not like this? After all, everybody’s TRYING SO HARD!!!!

Zero Dark Thirty

Kathryn Bigelow’s stunning look at the capture of Osama Bin Laden is a

tremendous achievement, on many levels. Stark, smart and boy-did-they-get-this-out-fast,

this is a film of urgent and undeniable accomplishment...

The Guilt Trip

Does it give it away where I’m coming from that I “invited” my son to join

me at the screening of this mother/son road comedy? I mean, it was demographic

research. Really. You know me, anything for the sake of my art...

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

The Lord of the Rings trilogy behind him, Peter Jackson has begun

yet another, this time adapting the Tolkien epic, The Hobbit...

Life of Pi

Ang Lee’s mounting of the best selling novel is an awesome

movie event: a loving interpretation of the mystical story as

well as a jaw dropping, how’d-they-do-that visual feat...

Silver Linings Playbook

David O Russell’s movie to love raises the bar

on what has become the traditional rom-com...

Lincoln

Often fascinating and beautiful to look at, Steven Spielberg’s

latest forms an imperfect union of history and storytelling...

Skyfall

Outlandishly ambitious, this sure-footed re-boot isn’t just among the

best of the Bond series, but among the best movies of the year...

Flight

It’s almost harder to tell which is more frightening: the remarkable crash scenes

in this thriller or the self-delusion of Denzel Washington’s heroic addict...

Cloud Atlas

For a movie about big ideas, this occasionally entertaining

fantasy sure gets bogged down in the small stuff...

Argo

Ben Affleck’s very dramatic, funny, and even timely period

thriller just may the most wholly satisfying movie of the year...

The Paperboy

I’m all for filmmakers reaching out of their comfort zone, but what’s with this

insistent attraction to scummy, sweaty lowlifes? Does allowing your crotch to

be shown in an unflattering position make you A Serious Artist?

Looper

I knew this was my kind of sci-fi movie when, after spending a bit of time establishing the

“rules”for this conceptual thriller, Bruce Willis yells at Joseph Gordon Levitt, insisting that

they stop talking about how time travel works and just get down to the business at hand...

Trouble With the Curve

As comfy as an old shoe, this one does nicely enough

but could have used a few curve balls of its own...

The Master

The buzz words alone: Scientology, Hoffman, Phoenix, Anderson,

made even the anticipation for this film compelling...

Arbitrage

Nicholas Jarecki’s screenplay may remind you of one of those paperback thrillers

people devour, but his savvy direction and Richard Gere’s best performance in

years make the movie as a whole wonderfully satisfying entertainment...

The Campaign

Will Ferrell and Zach Galifanakis’s political satire may not

deliver a profound punch but it’s no sucker, either...

The Bourne Legacy

“How doesn’t really matter, does it?” yells Ed Norton, about half way through this muddled

spinoff. I was so relieved, no longer having to sweat the small stuff, like plot...

Opening in Wide Release

Star Trek Into Darkness

In Selected Theaters

Also in Theaters

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

The Host

Tyler Perry's Temptation

Oz The Great and Powerful

21 & Over

The Last Exorcism Part II

Phantom

Dark Skies

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