Self/Less, as written by Spanish filmmakers David and Àlex Pastor, is a pretty generic update of John Frankenheimer’s Seconds:
Amy is a disarmingly revealing inside look at how it all went down behind the tabloid headlines
Comedian Amy Schumer is utterly charming in director Judd Apatow’s new comedy Trainwreck, which was written by the star
The Age of Adaline examines the romantic history of a woman who hasn’t aged since the 1930s, remaining 29 years old forever
Home Care was one of two Czech films in competition at this year’s Karlovy Vary film festival, along with the far superior The Snake Brothers
Irrational Man is the classic Strangers on a Train setup, with the twist that there’s only one stranger, and he’s motivated by vigilantism
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation is the best film in the franchise since the 1996 original, sleek and tight with no-nonsense scripting and direction
Mallory follows its subject through a number of years; director Helena Třeštíková first began filming Mallory when she gave birth in 2002
Jake Gyllenhaal does his best Mike Tyson in Southpaw, a boxing movie about a tough kid from a Hell’s Kitchen orphanage
Sadness can be good, Inside Out tells us; that’s not the kind of thematic material we typically see in a children’s film
Paper Towns is a likable John Hughes-like teen drama adapted from the bestselling novel by John Green
Marvel’s Ant-Man is a fast, funny, often flippant comic book outing that, refreshingly, dials things back a bit from recent studio outings
he majority of Magic Mike XXL is a laid-back, low-burn, mostly plotless road movie exercise about the Kings of Tampa
Arnold Schwarzenegger is back as the cybernetic T-800 in Terminator Genisys, a film that attempts to appeal to fans by returning the series to its roots
Slow West is going for something like Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man, but it’s much too simplistic and straightforward to work on that level
The hoary old clichés of Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd don’t exactly mesh well with director Thomas Vinterberg’s low-key approach
Seth MacFarlane’s talking bear is back in Ted 2, an intermittently uproarious comedy that lumbers to an ungainly 115-minute running time
Those lovable yellow creatures from Despicable Me are back in action in Minions, a feature-length film that follows in the footsteps of Penguins of Madagascar
Woman in Gold is a perfectly decent version of this compelling true story bolstered by some terrific performances
Dark Places is a decent little thriller, and writer-director Gilles Paquet-Brenner has a keen sense for the Southern Gothic atmosphere
These are vapid, vacuous, arrogant and selfish men, driven by the most basic desires, and Entourage is the male equivalent of Sex and the City
Unfriended is being sold as a horror movie, but there’s nothing remotely scary during the duration of the film
When you cast Samuel L. Jackson as the President of the United States, you’re promising something that Big Game completely fails to deliver.
Insidious 3, for a good long while, is flat-out scary: writer and debut director Leigh Whannell has a great feel for atmosphere