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The Great Gatsby: movie review

The purists have had their knives sharpened for months, and now that Baz Luhrmann’s 3-D adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s canonical novel is finally here, the dissection and disembowelment can begin. This bombastic superproduction is certainly its...

Peeples: movie review

The great David Alan Grier deserves to headline a big-time summer comedy—albeit one superior to this second-rate Meet the Parents–style farce. Grier’s Judge Virgil Peeples is a demanding paterfamilias who frowns mightily upon Wade (The Office’s Craig...

A Wedding Invitation

QiaoQiao receives an invitation to Li Xing's wedding but is determined to win back her former love.

Fast & Furious 6: movie review

We’re a long way from the grease-stained cred (such that it was) of this series’s 2001 originator, a movie with a lunkheaded charm about it. Now most of the stunts are digital and the pleasures are video-game-stupid: Cars pounce like panthers over de...

The Place Beyond the Pines: movie review

You’re not going to learn it from the movie itself, but the poetic title of Derek Cianfrance’s latest is an English translation for Schenectady, the Mohawk-derived name for the New York town where it’s set. That’s a clue: For what’s basically a grubb...

Oblivion: movie review

In the year 2525…well, actually 2077, Earth has been decimated by an alien war. The majority of the human race has taken refuge on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. But there are a few humans left—people like Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) and his partner, Vic...

Olympus Has Fallen: movie review

Only weeks after a lackluster Die Hard sequel—and days since the release of another fabulously shoddy piece of North Korean propaganda video—comes this White House invasion thriller, so somberly silly that it comes close to redeeming itself. After a...

Mud: movie review

Arkansas teen Ellis (Tye Sheridan) is watching his life slowly unravel. His fisherman father’s livelihood is drying up, Mom is talking about divorce, and it’s looking like the state is going to raze the family home in an effort to modernize a moribun...

Pain & Gain: movie review

There’s more than a little pride swallowing in admitting this, but, for better or worse, Michael Bay is an auteur. His gleefully brash and unapologetically skin-deep oeuvre—with its Neanderthal macho men (except when they’re simpering queers), sex-to...

42: movie review

Jackie Robinson’s story is so blue-sky heroic and transcendent, it becomes hard for any filmmaker to run the bases without falling into emotional goo. (Tellingly, the first attempt, in 1950, starred Robinson himself and still felt like a fantasy.) Wr...

Evil Dead: movie review

That damn book just won’t stay dead. Buried in the cobweb-strewn, skinned-cat-bedecked basement of a cabin in the woods is the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis—an ancient tome that unleashes literal Hell when someone speaks the demonic words within. Unfortunat...

Jurassic Park

The Iceman

Hit man Richard Kuklinski gains a well-deserved reputation as a cold-blooded killer.

First: The Story of the London 2012 Olympic Games

Athletes from all over the world talk about their experiences at the London Olympics.

After Earth

With his father trapped in the wreckage of their spacecraft, a youth treks across Earth's now-hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon and signal for help.