A majestic mountain of muscles, Dwayne Johnson is fully capable of using his pectorals to catapult small objects hither and yon, a skill he demonstrates with berries in the blithely idiotic family movie Journey 2: The Mysterious …
Review
The Innkeepers: More Clerks Than Spooks
In The Innkeepers, writer/director Ti West’s first true project since his acclaimed 80’s retro horror film The House of the Devil, a pair of likeable slacker clerks, Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy), are left in charge …
The Woman in Black: Harry Potter and the Spooky Mansion
Daniel Radcliffe, sprung from Hogwarts, is menaced by another evil spirit armed with Voldemortian intentions and some killer sound effects
Big Miracle: A Slice of 80s Nostalgia, With a Side of Whale
This energetic family movie, about a pod of whales trapped in Alaskan ice, is less insipid than it looks.
Chronicle: It’s Carrie Plus X-Men, With Found Footage
A troubled teen gets telekinetic powers, and films himself flying high and going mad, in this diverting, annoying horror movie
Perfect Sense: Love in the Time of Catastrophe
What would you do if you started losing your senses, one at a time? Ewan McGregor has the right idea: cuddle up to Eva Green
Declaration of War: Romeo and Juliette Take on Cancer
Truth and beauty are the victors in this playful, autobiographical tale of a French couple fighting for their son’s life.
The Grey: Wolves Near a Plane
Mountain man Liam Neeson battles a lupine conspiracy in this fitfully engrossing but logorrheic thriller
Albert Nobbs: Glenn Close’s Quiet Man
The Oscar-nominated actress bases her performance of the title character, a lady disguised as a man, on Charlie Chaplin.
This Man on a Ledge Is Pretty Wobbly
The rage against the economic machine that exploded forth from movie theaters in late 2011 (Margin Call, Tower Heist, In Time) continues in Man on a Ledge. In this slight, but crowd-pleasing caper, a blue-collar hero (Sam …
Underworld Awakening: Me Somewhat Lycan
In this flashy fourth installment, Kate Beckinsale’s vampires and their rival werewolves battle a vicious new species: humans
Miss Bala: Beauty and the Beasts in a Mexican Drug War
Inspired by truly awful events, Gerardo Naranjo’s melodrama is as smart and thrilling as it is tragic
Red Tails: So Square It Can Barely Fly
Against the great odds of pervasive bigotry, a group of black pilots from the Tuskegee training program flew in World War II, shooting down German planes, bombing trains and trucks and even taking out a destroyer. They sacrificed …