This bracing political thriller is a welcome tonic for the end of a sluggish summer at the movies
Reviews
Higher Ground: When God Doesn’t Talk Back
Vera Farmiga goes looking for heaven in her directorial debut
Our Idiot Brother: Paul Rudd on a Couch-Crash Course
Finally, an offbeat summer comedy that’s more amiable than outrageous
One Day: A Page Turner Becomes a Head Scratcher
Even with cute stars Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess, this adaptation of David Nicholls’ best-selling novel lacks the punch of its source material
Conan the Barbarian: That’s Sado-tainment!
This grimy, gruesome revenge tale has a body count in the mid-trillions and plenty of things to make you go eww
Amigo: John Sayles’ Latest Declaration of Indie-pendence
Pushing Vietnam and Iraq analogies in depicting the U.S. occupation of the Philippines a century ago, the veteran filmmaker gets stuck in the Big Muddy of his grand ambitions
Glee The 3-D Concert Film: The Church of Latter-day Songs
The McKinley High glee club has accrued the odor, say the incense, of a secular religion
30:Minutes or Less: Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari in a Go-Nowhere Fargo
The only entertainment value viewers can mine from this Grand Rapids mishigas is to meet the film on its own sub-basement level and count the movie references
The Help: The Secret Lives of Maids
It is safe to say actress Viola Davis will get an Oscar nomination for her uncompromising performance in this adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s best seller
The Interrupters: Heroes in an Urban War Zone
An enthralling new documentary, airing tonight on Frontline/PBS, tracks a group of reformed criminals fighting a plague of violence in Chicago
The Whistleblower: Rachel Weisz Against the Sex Trade
The Oscar winner delivers a great, subtle performance as a Nebraska cop trying to right wrongs in Bosnia
The Change-Up: Body Swapping, Plus Fake Boobs and F Bombs
Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds trade bodies, but this comedy does little to switch up a familiar movie formula
Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Chimpan-tastic!
As both a simian simile and a wonder of technology, this reboot is a triumph — the year’s finest action movie