2 Guns: Denzel and Marky Mark Smush the Smurfs
Washington and Wahlberg win the weekend at home, but the Blue Crew scores abroad
Articles from Contributor
A Declawed Wolverine Slouches into First Place
X-Man Hugh Jackman extends the run of underwhelming summer superheroes
Blue Jasmine: A Woody Allen Woman Under the Influence
Cate Blanchett plays a high-flying Manhattanite brought to ground in San Francisco
The Wolverine: Claws and F/X
Hugh Jackman is all-mutant, with no music, in this peripheral extension of the X-Men franchise
Conjure This: Low-Budget Horror Film Scares Off Pricey Tentpoles
Hollywood gets a financial scare, as ‘Turbo,’ ‘Red 2’ and ‘R.I.P.D.’ all go D.O.A.
R.I.P.D.: Too Awful to Review?
Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds are two dead cops in the summer’s most inert movie
Only God Forgives: No Absolution for Ryan Gosling
The star’s reunion with his ‘Drive’ director produces a bloody, broody melodrama that stays in Neutral
Despicable and Grown Ups Sequels Pummel Pacific Rim
After this weekend’s box office numbers, someone in Hollywood must be asking, ‘Can we just make sequels?’
Pacific Rim: Transformers Transcended
Guillermo Del Toro’s robots-vs.-dinosaurs movie raises the question: Why would a gifted director go to the trouble of outclassing Michael Bay?
Despicable Me 2 Makes Minions-Meat of The Lone Ranger
Comedies starring Steve Carell and Kevin Hart bring in the holiday crowds, while Johnny Depp as Tonto is left asking “How?”
Gettysburg: The Great Battle That the Movies Ignored
On its 150th anniversary, we look at a decisive conflict that rarely seized Hollywood’s imagination
The Lone Ranger: Lost in a Western Myth
Johnny Depp is Tonto and Armie Hammer his kemo sabe in this overly ambitious tribute to the vanished art of the sagebrush saga
Monsters Wins, The Heat Is Up, White House Down
Channing Tatum and his President get sideswiped by Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy and their female army