It's the final week of 2014, so we're wrapping the year up the usual way: with lists! Friday, we each gave you our…
It's the final week of 2014, so we're wrapping the year up the usual way: with lists! Friday, we each announced…
Yes, most people have already written their Top 10 movie lists for 2014. We're saving ours for the last week of…

Yes, most people have already written their Top 10 movie lists for 2014. We're saving ours for the last week of…

Yes, most people have already written their Top 10 movie lists for 2014. We're saving ours for the last week of the…
According to Unbroken, director Angelina Jolie's adaptation of Laura Hillenbrand's 2010 nonfiction bestseller,…
Monday night, Seth Rogen was a guest during the final week of The Colbert Report. Ordinarily, he isn't much of a…

Recently, a listener called into a talk-radio show I was on, asking if Paramount had sped up the release of its…
With each passing movie, Paul Thomas Anderson wanders further and further away from the terrain mapped out by his…
1. I'm not sure who ever could have thought that Exodus: Gods and Kings was a good idea. Putting aside—only for a…
Chris Rock has such a warm, magnetic presence that it's baffling that he has never seemed that comfortable as an…
Late in Amir Bar-Lev's harrowing and deeply fair documentary Happy Valley, which tracks the Jerry Sandusky tragedy…
I've now seen three Hunger Games films, and I feel confident saying that eventually, something is finally going…
1. Before you get too wrapped up in the negative early reaction to Dumb and Dumber To, the 20-years-later sequel…
Foxcatcher is a movie about America, but what makes it so compelling is that you don't realize it at first.…
If you were trying to turn a kid onto action films for life, you could do a lot worse than starting him or her off…

Two years ago, just as I was about to see The Dark Knight Rises, I wrote a glowing overview of its director's…
1. Why don't we talk about Jake Gyllenhaal more? This is an actor who

As of this second, we are 122 days away from the 2015 Academy Awards, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris as Billy…
Movies are lots of things, but "important" isn't one of them. It's not that they can't be meaningful and…