Hail, Caesar! (Universal Pictures, PG-13)
It feels like a love letter both to movies and movie lovers.
Josh Brolin
Sicario (Lionsgate, R)
I expect that it will be well-liked, and it won’t do anything but further bolster Villeneuve’s impressive young career.
Inherent Vice (Warner Bros., R)
It isn’t so much about the story, but about the details along the way, the ambiance you create.
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (The Weinstein Company, R)
The film takes the vibrancy of the illustrated page and dulls it like a stone, the rough edges of which have been eroded away by thousands of years of ocean waves.
Gangster Squad (Warner Bros. Pictures, R)
Sean Penn is basically the male equivalent to Meryl Streep in the Academy’s eyes, and costar Ryan Gosling is perhaps the best young actor to pop up in the past decade.
Men in Black III (Columbia Pictures, PG-13)
What matters is, I felt like a man stranded in the desert suddenly presented with an entire pool of drinking water when I saw images of massive alien ships attacking a major city and the […]
True Grit (Paramount Pictures, PG-13)
I’m almost sorry to say it, but if this was the Coens’ obvious attempt to recapture the success of No Country for Old Men, it kind of worked.
The Tillman Story (The Weinstein Company, R)
Reportedly, Bar-Lev wanted to call it I’m Pat Fucking Tillman after the last words of the man himself. My own suggestion would be Blasting Through Bullshit: The Pat Tillman Cover-up.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Twentieth Century Fox, PG-13)
Stone is lucky enough to have assembled a truly magnificent cast who are the only reason the convoluted, overblown plot is even moderately believable.
Jonah Hex (Warner Bros. Pictures, PG-13)
What Brolin does in the film can’t really be called a performance because he merely grimaces and mumbles through the whole movie beneath the increasingly distracting makeup.