“What happens when a man who hates killing finds himself in a situation that demands lethal force—indeed, in which killing becomes a...

“Does The Hobbit really need to be divided into three films?” It’s a valid question. I’ll admit, I mulled it over more than once. The...

Steven Spielberg is one of our greatest living storytellers. I seem to recall that several critics accused last year’s War Horse of being...

There were only two reasons I wanted to check out this rather routine-looking slasher flick. First, it costars Josh Peck, best known for...

Disney has a talent for spinning existential despair into heartwarming, hilarious adventures; like the company’s best output (Aladdin,...

Occasionally, I like the memory of a movie better than the movie itself. The first twenty to thirty minutes of Kaneto Shindo’s The Naked...

Tim Burton returns to form with this animated love letter to The Bride of Frankenstein, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Gremlins,...

“Bruce. Why do we fall down?” Bruce Wayne spends the majority of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Saga flat on his back. After his...

Haywire lets Michael Fassbender down. Inglourious Basterds. Hunger. X-Men: First Class. Shame. The man has more than established himself...

While the trailers are selling it as something of a horror/action hybrid, The Grey is actually a poetic, contemplative, economically-told...

After watching Rare Exports last weekend, I was in the mood for another offbeat Holiday movie, and Anna and the Apocalypse—a Christmas...

The season finale of Telltale’s Walking Dead adventure game showed up on Playstation Network way late in the day. To kill time while my...

I was still feeling a little sick this morning, but I’m a glutton for punishment as well as a cinephile, so I willed myself out of bed,...

Gravity is no ordinary movie; it is an experience, in every conceivable sense of the word. Director Alfonso Cuaron’s fluid, free-floating...

For some directors, it takes a few films to ease into a consistent creative voice. Others, including Martin Scorsese (Who’s That Knocking...

The Wolverine is the best X-Men related film to date, by far. Like The Dark Knight Rises and Skyfall, it finds its central character at...

Guillermo del Toro ends the credits of his love letter to monster movies with a dedication to Ray Harryhausen and Ishiro Honda. This...

With Quentin Tarantino, it’s never about the story. When the maverick director chooses a premise, he leans towards the audacious, the...

We thought we’d seen the full extent of James Bond’s “origin story” back in 2006, when Martin Campbell’s Casino Royale re-imagined the...

No, the title is not a metaphor. In this bombastic kung-fu epic, the Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA (also the co-writer and director) slips on a pair...