This slick, fast-paced adaptation of Stephen King’s 1975 novel overstuffs a narrative better served in TV adaptations into a breezy runtime.
Despite an electric performance from Margaret Qualley, writer-director Ethan Coen’s solo feature is only a mildly amusing trifle.
What could have been a sleepy legal drama surrounding a contract dispute turns utterly compelling thanks to its powerhouse lead performances.
Joaquin Phoenix gives a mesmerizing performance as an alienated would-be comic in this startling comic book tale that is more Taxi Driver than Batman
This modern-day Cold War thriller is a surprisingly classy, adult-minded film that plumbs the depths of spy game depravities
Deadpan humor uneasily mixes with psychological horror in this masterfully-directed film from The Lobster’s Yorgos Lanthimos
Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass bring some kinetic slam-bang energy back to the Bourne franchise
Black Mass is a film not so much about Bulger as it is about the system of corruption that allowed him to operate unhindered for almost two decades
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave is not just a bleak history lesson but a literate, engaging, and ultimately devastating film
John Hillcoat’s Lawless, a prohibition-era drama about moonshiners, couldn’t be opening at a better time in the Czech Republic
Public Enemies, starring Christian Bale and Johnny Depp, is Michael Mann’s finest film: an out-and-out masterpiece and an immense technical achievement