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‘Neighbors’ Review: Seth Rogen’s Suburbanites vs. Frat Boys Comedy Is an Instant Classic
This raucous but intelligent farce offers both rollicking laughs and interesting observations about college and gender dynamics
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‘Moms’ Night Out’ Review: Unfunny and Anti-Feminist
Patricia Heaton stars in a grinding comedy that ostensibly celebrates motherhood but ultimately yanks the carpet out from under its target audience
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‘Belle’ Review: Jane Austen Would Swoon Over This Lustrous Romantic Drama
This biopic examines race, gender and class in 18th century England, but it’s also a sumptuous love story
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‘The Quiet Ones’ Review: Jared Harris Leads a Cast Too Good for This Demonic Nonsense
Things go bump in the classroom in this inane and clichéd horror movie where the coolest thing on display is the old-school 1970s gadgetry
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‘Brick Mansions’ Review: Paul Walker Outclasses the Script by Leaps and Bounds
The parkour is breathtaking and the plot twists are ridiculous in this U.S. remake of “District B13”
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‘Heaven Is for Real’ Review: Even Skeptics Can Find This Tale Humane and Even-Handed
A young boy claims to have glimpsed the afterlife during a near-death experience, and director Randall Wallace keeps his adaptation of the pop-religion best-seller on an even keel
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‘Draft Day’ Review: Football Tale Hangs Like Square Dad Jeans on Kevin Costner
Ivan Reitman’s gridiron drama is stodgy and boxy — and not too much to look at, either
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‘Dom Hemingway’ Review: Jude Law Goes Full Character Actor in This Hilarious but Hollow Gangster Comedy
Jude Law leaves his pretty-boy past behind him to play a middle-aged mobster in a movie that’s not always worthy of his exertions
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‘Rob the Mob’ Review: A Bonnie & Clyde Tale That’s Better Than Its Title
Michael Pitt and Nina Arianda star as real-life Robin Hoods – accent on the “hoods” – with a plan so brilliantly stupid it actually worked, until it didn’t
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‘Le Week-End’ Review: Can the City of Lights Save This Marriage?
Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan crackle as a sparring British couple on holiday in this perceptive and witty new dramedy written by Hanif Kureishi
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‘Bad Words’ Review: Jason Bateman’s Directorial Debut Exhilarates Until It Grates
The “Arrested Development” star avoids the trap of easy sentimentality in this spelling-bee comedy, but that leaves us with a movie about an unrepentant jerk whose jibes are more revolting than they are funny
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‘Mr. Peabody and Sherman’ Review: Amusing Cartoon Might Delight Adults More Than Kids
If only this inconsistent comedy-adventure, based on the classic TV show, were as singularly clever and capable as its canine hero
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‘Son of God’ Review: Bless Me, Surfer Jesus
Not unlike “Game of Thrones,” this big-screen condensation of History’s “The Bible” miniseries plays far more interestingly when it focuses on political machinations rather than on the supernatural
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‘Barefoot’ Review: This Love Isn’t Very Crazy, But It’s Plenty Stupid
When Scott Speedman and Evan Rachel Wood find love in a mental hospital, this dreadful dramedy takes “manic pixie dream girl” to new levels of dumb
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‘Omar’ Review: Palestinians Chafe Under Israeli Occupation in Oscar-Nominated Drama
Until a weak finish, writer-director Hany Abu-Assad (“Paradise Now”) takes a provocative look at how the ongoing struggles in the West Bank take a personal toll on the people who live there
