“I can’t help but wonder if Pain & Gain is the reason Michael Bay was put on this earth.”
Coming Soon
Before Midnight
Another blockbuster trilogy comes to a close
Fish eye, lensed
Leviathan
Documentary
"If you get into the rhythm of Leviathan, the experience can be at turns transcendent and overwhelming."
Family plots
Stories We Tell
Documentary
"Polley is genuinely intrigued in the project as both a daughter and a filmmaker."
Quantum leap
Star Trek Into Darkness
Action/Adventure
"...may not be satisfyingly true - at least for purists - to the original Gene Roddenberry television series. But it’s true to good filmmaking, and that’s what matters."
New sport
The Great Gatsby
Drama
"If you’re able to make it through the first party scene at Gatsby’s mansion, you’ll come out on the other side to find a film of surprising restraint and patience."
Losing power, Jarvis
Upstream Color
Drama
“…works on its own idiosyncratic wavelength, one that isn’t alienating, but isn’t quite approachable either.”
Trance
Thriller
“…mostly enjoyable for the way each of the three leads offers a twist on classic noir archetypes.”
Evil Dead
Horror
“…a blatant allegory in which drug addiction stands in for demonic possession (and vice versa).”
Spring Breakers
Drama
“…a fantasy version of Steubenville (with a wishful dose of girl power) that does nothing to help us understand the sort of aggression that has become such a dominant part of youth culture.”
Oz the Great and Powerful
Family
“In one picture we have everything that’s right and wrong about the contemporary blockbuster experience.”
