This playfully droll triptych varies in tone and quality from segment to segment, and not every one hits the right mark, but two out of three ain’t bad.
This old-fashioned, no-nonsense thriller doesn’t waste a second of screen time, and represents director Steven Soderbergh‘s best film in years.
Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis fail to bring much life to this slickly-produced but dreadfully dull adaptation of the video game series.
Bradley Cooper stars as a carny con man in this visually rich but thematically muddled update of the William Lindsay Gresham novel
The plotting and execution of a Met Gala grab is the prime focus in this surprisingly on-point heist movie that matches – or even surpasses – its predecessors
Director Taika Waititi injects some eccentric humor into the Marvel Universe, resulting in the best Thor movie to date
Disney’s 2015 live-action update of Cinderella is an elaborate, vividly designed and gorgeously-detailed version of the familiar story
Peter Jackson’s The Battle of Five Armies lives up to its title with a epic extended battle sequence that goes on for nearly an hour
The Monuments Men tells the story of a handful of men who recovered artwork stolen by Nazis during WWII and their wartime efforts
The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug provides a response to critics of the first film, opening and closing with two enormous action set pieces
Blue Jasmine is the best film Woody Allen has made since 2005’s Match Point – or even 1989’s Crimes and Misdemeanors
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey give fans the chance to spend some more time in Peter Jackson’s vision of Middle Earth
Hanna litters the road with a number of subtle pop culture references, dark humor, and just a slightly twisted sensibility
Robin Hood is good-enough entertainment, made by capable filmmakers, tightly scripted by Brian Helgeland
David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a strange film with a strange premise
Ignore the cynics: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a film for pulp lovers, a throwback to old Republic serials and Errol Flynn adventures
Hot Fuzz is Edgar Wright’s hilarious and highly entertaining follow-up to Shaun of the Dead
Notes on a Scandal is a wildly overpraised Fatal Attraction derivation from director Richard Eyre
Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett star in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s masterfully directed tale of parallel stores