Steven Soderbergh’s “last” movie (until the next one) twists an anti-Pharma diatribe into a top-grade thriller
Review
Identity Thief: The Wrath of Con
Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy play victim and thief in a mean-spirited road-trip comedy
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III: Boys Behaving Badly
Roman Coppola’s nonsensical film—featuring Charlie Sheen as a playboy trying to get his girlfriend back—is visually stimulating. Don’t expect anything more.
Warm Bodies: A Hot-Zom Rom-Com
Finally, a reprieve from January’s movie wasteland. You’ll never find zombies more charming
Scent of Doomed Men: Al Pacino and Christopher Walken Team Up for Stand Up Guys
Pacino and Walken play old gangsters reunited for one last night together, with Alan Arkin playing the third musketeer. So why do these Stand Up Guys seem like they’d rather be sitting?
A Punkster ‘Hansel & Gretel’: That Witch Does Not Kill Us
Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton are the hero siblings, outmatched if not outfought by some wondrous creatures in cool action scenes
The Mystery of Broken City: Who Killed the New York Crime Drama?
A strong cast in a knotty plot about conniving politicians can’t keep this drama from splintering
Hero Glock Dirty: Arnold’s Back, Guns Blazing, in The Last Stand
Schwarzenegger returns in an NRA vision of America the Beautiful that even a pacifist could enjoy — because it’s a Movie
Jessica Chastain Survives the Supernatural in Mama
The Zero Dark Thirty star’s last stop before the Oscars is the horror genre. Now everyone really will know her name
Gangster Squad: Heroes as Violent as the Villains
L.A. cops are righteous vigilantes in this history lesson turned into a colorful cartoon
Parental Guidance: Should Be Rated R for Rotten
Billy Crystal and Bette Midler as fun-loving grandparents? On paper that sounds good. On screen it’s painful.
Quartet: The Least Exotic Country Retirement Home
Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay and Pauline Collins are up to their usual fine standard, but Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut about retirees putting on a show to help save their retirement home lacks bite
Matt Damon’s Promised Land: What the Frack!?
The star and cowriter takes on the natural-gas industry, and everyone loses