This now-streaming comedy from longtime SNL writer Fred Wolf is no great shakes, but features a pair of inspired comedic performances
This fourth version of the familiar rags-to-riches tale is as good as any of them, with dark subtext new to the story
The sixth addition to the Tom Cruise-starring series features some of the most breathtaking actions sequences you’ll see at the cinema this year
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation is the best film in the franchise since the 1996 original, sleek and tight with no-nonsense scripting and direction
Still Alice is a Disease-of-the-Week movie in which an A-list cast struggles with banal Lifetime TV material
Blue Jasmine is the best film Woody Allen has made since 2005’s Match Point – or even 1989’s Crimes and Misdemeanors
Four separate Rome-set storylines are given equal screen time in Woody Allen’s latest, To Rome with Love
It’s Complicated is well-produced, with a better cast than the material deserves, and its target audience should enjoy it
My Best Friend’s Girl may be watchable (just barely) but it’s so unpleasant you’ll be left feeling slimy for hours afterward
Dreamworks Animation’s Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa is brighter, livelier, funnier, and a shade or two better than 2005’s Madagascar
The Good Shepherd is richly detailed and expertly produced, if hellishly long and unbearably slow