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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 ...

A silver fox for a silver crowd: Richard Gere is the magic card up the filmmaker’s sleeve for this warm if rambling sequel to the 2011 hit The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Novelist Deborah Moggach wrote only one book about a ramshackle Indian hotel...

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....