The goal is an Olympic gold medal in wrestling, but the real grappling goes on between two families: the Schultzes (brothers Dave and Mark) and the DuPonts (mother Jean and son John). Yes, those DuPonts. Poor John (Steve Carrell in a fake schnozz) is a crazily wealthy nothing of a …
Frank (Michael Fassbender), the visionary lead singer in an unsung alt-rock band, spends his entire life hiding beneath piñata headgear that brings to mind a Jack-in-the-Box drive-thru. His parents later confess their adult son suffers from mental illness. Really? Forrest Gump for hipsters, this huggable, Sundance-sanctioned babble joins the ever-stretching …
Once the pleasures derived from eyeballing black-and-white on a big screen wane, what remains is a digitized manure pile that adds new meaning to the term green-screen composting. This 3D pop-up primer on misogyny for 9-year-old boys finds sequel scion Robert Rodriguez — once again aided and abetted by comic …
A woman signs on to be the first coach of the Tennessee State University men's golf team. Bereft of scholarships, she must recruit a plucky band of misfits from around the world. Will she succeed?
Because your little girl simply will not stop singing "Let it Go" and "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?" you are seized with the faint and entirely unreasonable hope that taking her to see this sing-along version will somehow sate her appetite. She will join with the movie for …
Mark Wahlberg stars in a remake of the 1974 film starring James Caan.
A World War II epic from the losers' perspective, continued.
File under: bravura openings to set the theme. Director Tate Taylor (The Help) has the intestinal fortitude to start this James Brown biopic with the Godfather of Soul in full meltdown: baked, aged, and enraged that someone has taken an unauthorized dump in his building. But when he stops to …
He doesn’t drink, cheat, gamble, or raise a hand to her, so why is the rabbi’s wife so intent on getting a divorce? In a culture where the man is always given final say, the Israeli brother and sister writing-directing team of Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz (also starring as …
A cliche-juggling feminist vampire tale by any other country of origin would still hit a dry socket. We never learn where our impoverished hero (Arash Marandi) picked up enough spare cash to acquire a cherry Ford T-Bird or the amount of vigorish that’s owed Bad City’s local pimp. Iranian-American writer-director …
After the wild success of The Hunger Games and the slightly less wild success of Divergent, and before the hotly anticipated success of The Maze Runner, they decided to let Jeff Bridges realize his 18-year-old dream of bringing this YA dystopia novel to the screen. That was nice of them …
An "interactive experience" where theatregoers are expected to use social media to "raise your voice and show your passion for changing America's education system."
Eve, a clinically diagnosed anorexic (Emily Browning), skips out of her treatment facility with little more to lead her than a desire to forever change the face of rock ‘n’ roll. She adopts as her bandmates a Napoleon Dynamite-ish lifeguard-cum-guitarist (Olly Alexander) and his wacky (and flush) friend (Hannah Murray). …
A neatly nasty cautionary tale about the dangers faced by the artist when he undertakes to speak for the common man. Richard Jenkins (Killing Them Softly) is spot-on as an old-school, Studs-Terkel style newspaper columnist drunk on the notion that his city is universally grateful to be immortalized in fishwrap. …