UA Kaufman Astoria Cinema 14

A watered-down adaptation that’s embarrassed to be wet, Fifty Shades of Grey is a sex-positive but hopelessly soft-core erotic drama that fails to be even a fraction as titillating as the E.L. James books that inspired it. And yet, that’s exactly ...

You have to hand it to Andy and Lana Wachowski: They don’t do things by halves. Fresh from blending dystopian sci-fi, period drama, cannibalism and just about everything else under the sun in 2012’s gloriously insane Cloud Atlas, they’ve taken a s...

Spoofing James Bond is hardly a new idea (see Woody Allen in the 1967 Casino Royale, not to mention the entire Austin Powers franchise), but that hasn’t stopped writer-director Matthew Vaughn from trying his hand at a little counterespionage with ...

Jury duty, head lice, chlamydia—just a few of the things we'd hoped to get before a sequel to 2010's utterly inessential Hot Tub Time Machine. To that movie's small credit: Whenever star John Cusack smirked and shambled his way out of midlife cris...

If Will Smith’s recent remorse over the failure of 2013 sci-fi disaster After Earth fooled you into thinking we were about to witness the all-guns-blazing rebirth of the original Fresh Prince, think again. His spiral into blandness continues with ...

Don’t call these misadventures of a high-pitched sponge and his random pals living in the undersea village of Bikini Bottom “kids’ stuff.” Nickelodeon’s animated TV sensation has always been a home for surreal stoner humor, utterly inappropriate s...

Just as only Nixon could go to China, only Clint Eastwood could make a movie about an Iraq War veteran and infuse it with doubts, mission anxiety and ruination. American Sniper is a superbly subtle critique made by an especially young 84-year-old....