Bong Joon-ho's 'Snowpiercer'

An allegory with ax fights

Snowpiercer is worth seeing not just because of its indictment of widening global inequality, but because it seriously examines the alternatives.

Jake Blumgart

Jul 12, 2014 · Articles · 3 minute read

Paul Haggis's 'Third Person'

Third person, removed

Third Person underwhelms in its attempt to tie together three separate threads. Its downfall is the very detachment implied by its title.

Kayleigh Butera

Jul 08, 2014 · Articles · 3 minute read

Roger Ebert’s ‘Life Itself’

The secret of Roger Ebert’s success

Life Itself is a documentary about a remarkable man who spent his entire life in movie theaters yet somehow managed to develop more humane relationships with more real people than most of us who inhabit the real world.

Dan Rottenberg

Jul 07, 2014 · Articles · 3 minute read

Cormac McCarthy and Ridley Scott re-team for 'The Counselor'

Cormac and the Dark Side All-Stars

Cormac McCarthy is our Balzac of dope.

Bob Ingram

Jul 05, 2014 · Articles · 3 minute read

Drive-ins and the way we watch movies

Starry night

The drive-in experience is like tailgating before a sporting event, but for movie junkies.

Ryan Dellaquila

Jul 05, 2014 · Articles · 4 minute read

Clint Eastwood's 'Jersey Boys'

Jersey Goodboys

Clint Eastwood's version of the popular stage musical about the Four Seasons is a tone-deaf mess.

Armen Pandola

Jul 01, 2014 · Articles · 6 minute read

'Penny Dreadful' goes back to horror’s roots

Horror is the new black

Penny Dreadful features a rogue’s gallery of Victorian favorites, but this is no retread of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Paula Berman

Jun 29, 2014 · Articles · 5 minute read

'Orange Is the New Black,' Season Two

Truth and consequences

Jenji Kohan takes the cheesiest of B-movie settings, a women's prison, as her starting point for an engrossing and complex examination of morality and choice in Orange Is the New Black.

Judy Weightman

Jun 22, 2014 · Articles · 6 minute read

Philip Seymour Hoffman in 'God's Pocket'

Nominally a Philadelphia film

As Philip Seymour Hoffman’s last film, God’s Pocket may end up being remembered as better than it actually is.

Rick Soisson

Jun 17, 2014 · Articles · 3 minute read

James Gray’s ‘The Immigrant’

Ellis Island blues

What went on under Lady Liberty’s lamp? James Gray’s The Immigrant tells the Ellis Island story as the dark side of the American Dream.

Robert Zaller

Jun 16, 2014 · Articles · 4 minute read