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Incoherent ‘A Cure for Wellness’ Will Leave You Feeling Sick
'A Cure for Wellness' is lurid, disgusting and plagiarized from every lunatic asylum flick from 'Shutter Island' to the 'Hostel' franchise.
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‘From Nowhere’ Is as Troubling as It Is Relevant
As a film, 'From Nowhere' is uneven, but as a political statement about the chaos we live in now, it's both enlightening and troubling.
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At the Roundabout, the Remarkable ‘On the Exhale’ and Awkward ‘Orion’
One of five showcases in New York devoted to “new and experimental works” produced by the Roundabout Theatre Company in its “underground” program, the tiny Black Box Theatre, Sixth Avenue and 46th...
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‘Lavender’ Is an Infuriatingly Illogical Ghost Story
'Lavender' is a Canadian ghost story with no thrills, no surprises, and no sense.
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‘Logan’ Review: Marvel’s Latest Mind-Number Is All Bark and No Bite
'Logan' is another heinous and sophomoric waste of Hugh Jackman ‘s time and considerable talent.
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Shirley MacLaine Deserves Better Than ‘The Last Word’
It's always nice to see Shirley MacLaine, but in 'The Last Word' she's strangled out of existence by lumpy direction and a lousy screenplay.
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‘Significant Other’ Brings a Dreary Theater Season to Vibrant Life
In Joshua Harmon’s exuberant comedy, expertly directed by Trip Cullman, Gideon Glick does a career-defining turn as Jordan Berman.
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‘Raw’ Is Hard to Stomach
This unspeakable endurance test by no-talent, first-time feature-film director Julia Ducournau is a French-Belgian co-production about (get a grip) a vegetarian who enrolls in a veterinarian school...
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‘This Beautiful Fantastic,’ an Oddball Modern-Day Fairy Tale
A charming, beautifully photographed modern fairy tale about love and gardening, 'This Beautiful Fantastic' is worth seeing.
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‘The Sense of an Ending’ Is a Powerful, Moving Portrait of Memories Past
If 'The Sense of an Ending' fails to move you, then you don’t really care much about the power of movies.
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Sam Gold Goes Gross With ‘The Glass Menagerie’
No, they are not blasting for a new subway under the Belasco Theater. The noise you hear is the sound of a mortified Tennessee Williams, turning over in his grave over what pretentious hack director...
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‘Mean Dreams’: Bill Paxton’s Final Film Does the Actor Justice
One of two final movies completed by the warm, likeable actor Bill Paxton before his untimely passing a few weeks ago, Mean Dreams is a pastoral thriller about two teenagers on the run from a deranged...
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‘The Belko Experiment’ Is a Psychologically Bewildering Mess
Nasty and aggressively nauseating, The Belko Experiment is another bloodbath from the “Midnight Madness” section of last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, made and marketed for the sole...
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Terrence Malick’s ‘Song to Song’ Hits All the Wrong Notes
Unfortunately, two hours and 10 minutes is too much attention to pay another lethal boring and relentlessly inert load of self-indulgent twaddle cut from the same maddening bolt of existential cloth as...
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‘Life’ Is a Mediocre Mix of ‘Alien’ and ‘Gravity’
If your craving for monsters from Mars needs immediate attention, 'Life' from Swedish director Daniel Espinosa passes the time painlessly.
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‘Bokeh’ Review: A Gorgeous, Peaceful Apocalypse
'Bokeh' is fascinating, valid, and off the beaten track.
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Dreadful ‘All Nighter’ Should Be Put to Sleep
J.K. Simmons stars in a throwaway comedy called 'All Nighter.' He should have stayed in bed.
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Contrived ‘Carrie Pilby’ Wastes the Charm of Bel Powley
In the title role of the sometimes clever but mostly contrived 'Carrie Pilby,' Bel Powley taxes the boundaries of her charm and talents.
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‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’ Is a Riveting Tale of Fascism and Fur
Adorable animals in peril, Nazis and Jessica Chastain fearlessly tackling a Polish accent are the ingredients of 'The Zookeeper’s Wife.'
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‘The Blackcoat’s Daughter’ Is a Bloody, Bewildering Bore
None of 'The Blackcoat's Daughter' makes one lick of sense and it quickly becomes clear that Oz Perkins couldn’t care less.
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