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‘The Good Dinosaur’ Review: Pixar’s Prehistoric Tale Improves as It Evolves
After a schmaltzy start, this Jurassic coming-of-age story blossoms into a tale as subtle, funny and moving as anything the studio has ever made
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‘The Big Short’ AFI Review: Brad Pitt and Christian Bale Get Bullish in Financial-Crisis Comedy
Director Adam McKay gets serious with an inventive and intellectual condemnation of Wall Street
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‘Concussion’ AFI Review: Will Smith Stars in Timely But Dreary Drama
For all its acknowledgements of football’s beauty, the film makes it unequivocal that going pro might mean an early death
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‘Love’ Review: Gaspar Noe’s Sexually Explicit Romance Stays Too Long in the Sack
This gorgeously shot and conceived picture can’t help flagging the longer it goes on
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‘Miss You Already’ Review: Drew Barrymore, Toni Collette Elevate Cancer Drama
Actresses are hilarious and heart-breaking as friends contending with lady parts that fail them
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‘Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict’ Review: Portrait of an Influential Collector Needs More Depth
Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s doc is comprehensive, yet never gets to the core of her subject
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‘CodeGirl’ Review: Feminism – There’s an App for That in This Disappointing Doc
Documentarian Lesley Chilcott has good intentions, but not enough tension or well-developed characters to sustain a film
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‘Suffragette’ Review: Carey Mulligan Fights for Women’s Rights in Nuanced Drama
The first women’s movement of the 20th century finally gets the big-screen treatment it deserves
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‘The Last Witch Hunter’ Review: Vin Diesel Casts a Boredom Spell in Effects-Driven Action-Fantasy
Rose Leslie, Michael Caine, and Elijah Wood appear in a derivative supernatural epic in which the biggest star is the special effects
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‘I Smile Back’ Review: Sarah Silverman Reinvents Herself in Dour Drama
The comedian goes dark in a film that illuminates its protagonist too little
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‘Room’ Review: Brie Larson’s Abduction-Escape Drama Walls Itself In
Flawed narrative diminishes the film’s potency, despite powerhouse performances from Larson and young Jacob Tremblay
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‘Victoria’ Review: Single-Take Drama Makes for a Night to Remember
Far from a mere stunt, the drama transports and transfixes despite the main character’s implausible naivete
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‘Goosebumps’ Review: Jack Black Horror Spoof Is Nostalgia Done Right
Black stars as author (and monster hunter) R.L. Stine in a silly, rollicking adventure that doesn’t take itself too seriously
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‘He Named Me Malala’ Review: Flat Portrait of Nobel Winner Belongs in Schools, Not Cineplexes
Oscar-winning documentarian Davis Guggenheim offers more talking points than insight
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‘The Green Inferno’ Review: Eli Roth’s Cannibal Horror Flick Is Racially Reprehensible
Roth’s brutal homage to Italian horror is mired in exploitation — and not in the good way
