MMA star Gina Carano has the kick of an action heroine but not the charisma of a movie star.
Review
Joyful Noise: Is it Awfully Nice or Just Plain Awful?
Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton star in an aggressively uplifting musical that will leave you either snarling or singing—maybe both
Albatross: Just Call Her Emilia Bad-Elia
Downton Abbey’s Lady Sybil portrays anything but a lady in this coming of age tale.
Beauty and the Beast in 3-D: Still an Enchantment
Disney’s 1991 animated feature retains its lilt, glow and magic
Mark Wahlberg and Mark Wahlberg’s Muscles Are On a Boat in Contraband
The jacked actor stars in this one-last-heist flick with a fresh setting: smuggling via cargo ships.
A Separation: How about an Oscar for This Fascinating Iranian Drama?
Director Asghar Farhadi shows how, even in the nicest families, things can go horribly wrong
Meryl as Maggie in The Iron Lady: A Stunt of Genius
With the help of some great makeup, Streep slips into Thatcher’s skin and finds the British PM’s mettle as well as her metal
Wenders’ Pina: Dance Crazy
One icon of German modernism pays thrilling tribute to another in Wenders’ 3-D doc on the late Pina Bauch’s Wuppertal Dance Theater Company
Pariah: Coming Out and Coming of Age
The year’s best coming-of-age film has slipped in just under the wire. Pariah, which opens this week with a limited release geared towards awards season, opens in a lesbian club where shy Brooklyn teenager Alike (Adepero Oduye) …
War Horse: Spielberg’s Searing, Splendid Christmas Gift
How many Steven Spielbergs are there, anyway? One Spielberg released a 3-D animated comedy yesterday: The Adventures of Tintin. Another has an emotionally urgent live-action epic opening Christmas day: War Horse, the story of a …
Cameron Crowe’s We Bought a Zoo is Pure Cornography
Star Matt Damon shines bright, but all else in blight, in this egregiously dewy family drama
Angelina Jolie Goes Dark in the Land of Blood and Honey
In Angelina Jolie’s respectful and more than respectable directorial debut, the grimly immersive In the Land of Blood and Honey, a woman ends up in a Serbian rape camp overseen by a man she had a fleeting romance with on the …
Spielberg’s 3-D Cartoon Adventure: It’s Tintinastic!
The 65-year-old boy wonder finds a kindred spirit in Hergé’s teen hero, and the beloved comic book becomes a whirling, almost abstract miracle of nonstop motion