J.J. Abrams trilogy capper is overstuffed and underplotted, and bound to irk fans of The Last Jedi without winning over diehards
This sequel to The Force Awakens zigs where that movie zagged, delivering some genuine surprises along the way
This new film from the director of Black Swan and Requiem for a Dream abandons a compelling story in favor of heavy-handed metaphor
Tom Cruise stars as real-life drug smuggler Barry Seal in this breezy, entertaining film that fails to give much substance to the real-life story it depicts
Saoirse Ronan is an Irish immigrant in 1950s New York City in this gentle, good-natured, Oscar-nominated drama
The Revenant is a poor retelling of the fascinating true story of Hugh Glass, a completely un-faithful adaptation of its source novel
It’s official: this new Star Wars is the real-deal sequel we’ve been waiting for since Return of the Jedi
Ex Machina is a brilliantly conceived, thought-provoking piece of science fiction that puts its big budget contemporaries to shame
Unbroken is a gorgeously-photographed (by Roger Deakins), vividly-realized, authentic-feeling adaptation that nevertheless struggles to come to life
About Time spices up the usual rom-com sentimentality with a sci-fi twist: our hero can travel in time at will
In Anna Karenina, director Joe Wright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard put a bold, dazzlingly original take on a classic piece of literature
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is a wholly satisfying conclusion to the decade-long Harry Potter franchise
True Grit, a new western from the Coen Brothers, is more or less as good as Henry Hathaway’s 1969 original starring John Wayne