Tag: movie review

J.K. Simmons in Whiplash. What makes a great cinema villain? On paper we look for a bit of nuance and ...

Bradley Cooper in American Sniper Confession: I’m reviewing American Sniper this week only because every new movie opening last week ...

Chris Hemsworth and Tang Wei in Blackhat It’s always a little intriguing when a new movie is released and its ...

Into the Woods’ James Corden, Emily Blunt and Daniel Huttlestone Fairyland has long been the setting for human nightmares as ...

Ian McKellen in The Battle of Five Armies. There is something so simultaneously satisfying and melancholy about coming to the ...

Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones in The Theory of Everything With both films receiving wide theatrical release nearly simultaneously, it’s ...

Jennifer Lawrence in Mockingjay – Part 1 Hollywood’s recent trend of splitting epic-scale fantasy novels into multiple installments, beginning with ...

Michael Keaton in Birdman For argument’s sake, let’s start from the basic premise that comic-book superhero movies are, in essence, ...

Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader in The Skeleton Twins The topic of suicide has been the stuff of high drama ...

Benedict Cumberbatch in Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation Game. When The Imitation Game comes around, run, don’t walk, to see it. ...

Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck (center) in Gone Girl Because the Village Voice’s resident movie reviewer Jonas Mekas was off ...

Still from This Is Where I Leave You . What does it say about our times that dysfunctional family comedies ...

Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan in The Trip To Italy Of late, food porn has leapt off the pages of ...

Brendan Gleeson and Chris O’Dowd in Calvary Oh blasé moviegoer, when was the last time that you walked out of ...

Om Puri and Helen Mirren in 'The Hundred-Foot Journey' What with glossy gourmet magazines, online recipes and the Cooking Channel, ...

Guardians of the Galaxy You may have noticed me complaining now and again about a movie that’s all shiny packaging ...

A Most Wanted Man with Willem Dafoe and Philip Seymour Hoffman The worlds of cinema and the stage lost one ...

Lucy with Scarlett Johansson Poor Morgan Freeman. These days, the veteran actor can’t seem to escape being cast – on ...

Still of Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel in the documentary Life Itself Film critics are an opinionated lot, though why ...

Mark Ruffalo and Keira Knightley in Begin Again Once in a while a little indie movie with an unknown cast ...