Oscar’s Hidden Gold
Matthew McConaughey, Cate Blanchett, Jared Leto, Lupita Nyong’o. You won’t go too far wrong if you pick those people to win the Academy Awards...
Blood and Waters
Late in the supernatural teen comedy Vampire Academy, one of the gossip girls at St. Vladimir’s (Sami Gayle) tries to start a fight with...
RoboCop Cleans Up
Can a movie comment on its own remake? It almost feels that way, as if the original RoboCop, with its satire of ’80s excesses...
Hit the Bricks
You’re right to be suspicious of a movie based on a set of wildly popular children’s toys, and yet The Lego Movie is far...
The Art of War
The true story of how a team of artists and art historians fought to keep the Nazis from looting or destroying priceless works of...
Odds and Ends
I spend every December catching up with films that I didn’t see in the theater, and every year I find interesting ones that never...
Ryan’s Hope
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is the fifth big-screen adventure of the all-American superspy invented by Tom Clancy, the second one that imagines Jack as...
Apple and Tree
For the first two minutes of Gimme Shelter, I thought this modestly budgeted drama was on to something. Crazier, I thought its star, Vanessa...
All Folked Up
When I ran my list of 2013’s best movies a couple of weeks ago, I left off one film that was on many other...
Letts Do It
I need to say this right off the bat: I haven’t seen Tracy Letts’ play August: Osage County on stage. I’ve heard that the...
