Alonso Duralde
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‘If I Stay’ Review: Chloë Grace Moretz Livens Up This Terminal-Teen Tearjerker (Video)
The saga of a comatose girl at the border between life and death makes some missteps, but Moretz sells the character and her romance with Jamie Blackley’s young rocker
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‘The One I Love’ Review: Elisabeth Moss, Mark Duplass Explore Unconventional Couples’ Therapy
This haunting Sundance hit is worth seeing before someone spoils its surprises
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‘The Trip to Italy’ Review: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon Serve Up More Delicious Mid-Life Crises
The comedians reteam with writer-director Michael Winterbottom for another exploration of friendship, rivalry, regret, and really amazing seafood
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‘The November Man’ Review: Pierce Brosnan’s Aging Spy Can’t Save This Double-0 Dud
Too few engaging characters and one thoroughly negligible performance from Luke Bracey results in a thriller that trying too hard to thrill
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‘Let’s Be Cops’ Review: Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans, Jr. Have Too Few Good Jokes in Their Holsters (Video)
The leads are appealing, but the script is operating dangerously below the comedy speed limit
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Lauren Bacall’s Movie Legacy: 5 Performances You Might Have Missed (Video)
From desperate housewife to Broadway diva to cartoon witch, the screen legend’s roles were varied and memorable
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Robin Williams Appreciation — Master of Laughter, Master of Tears
His manic absurdity as a comedian was matched only by his ability to go dark (and go subtle) as a dramatic actor
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‘Step Up All In’ Review: No, Seriously — Shut Up and Dance (Video)
This fifth entry feels like a mixed bag even by the standards of the series, but all is forgiven when the stars stop talking and their feet start flying
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‘The Expendables 3’ Review: Sylvester Stallone Gums Up the Works with a Dull Junior Auxiliary
The pleasure of these silly shoot-em-ups comes from its over-the-hill ensemble, so why devote so much of the movie to a bunch of forgettable millennials?
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‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Review: Michael Bay’s Reboot an Empty Shell
There are a few thrills and a few laughs in this rejiggered, CGI-heavy reimagining of the comic book/TV/movie superstars, but even by kid-movie standards, it’s a hollow experience
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‘Deepsea Challenge 3D’ Review: James Cameron’s Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
The “Avatar” director plummets to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in this amiable doc that’s basically a big-screen version of a National Geographic special
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‘Get On Up’ Review: Chadwick Boseman Brings the Funk in This Surprisingly Daring James Brown Biopic
Who would have thought that the director behind the cloying “The Help” could turn the story of the Godfather of Soul into something this cliché-defying?
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‘The Hundred-Foot Journey’ Review: Helen Mirren Can Add Only So Much Flavor
Despite some nice moments, what starts out as a retread of director Lasse Hallstrom’s “Chocolat” goes completely a la carte in an extraneous third act
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‘A Most Wanted Man’ Review: Philip Seymour Hoffman Bends the Spy Game Rules
Hoffman gives a memorable performance in this masterful John le Carré adaptation as a German master of intelligence coping with a post-9/11 world
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‘Lucy’ Review: Scarlett Johansson Grows Smarter As the Movie Gets Dumber
More full-tilt-boogie Euro-schlock grindhouse existentialism from Luc Besson, featuring a droning, brain-powered superhero that Morgan Freeman tries his darnedest to explain
