Alonso Duralde
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‘Need for Speed’ Review: Aaron Paul Can’t Get This Vehicle Off the Lot
The miscasting of the “Breaking Bad” star is just one of the many problems of this aggressively-idiotic video game adaptation
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‘Ernest & Celestine’ Review: Oscar Got It Right, Nominating This Animated Delight
This French animated import (now featuring an English-language cast led by Forest Whitaker) mixes wit, warmth and watercolor to spin a charming tale for all ages
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‘Non-Stop’ Review: Liam Neeson Kicks Ass on a Plane Full of Red Herrings (Video)
In this cheesy but diabolically-entertaining thriller, an air marshal struggles to prove he’s not a terrorist — at 20,000 feet
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‘The Face of Love’ Review: Annette Bening in a Design Catalog That Overwhelms Its Characters
This tale of a grieving, privileged widow gets gummed up in plot mechanics and excessive design porn
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Harold Ramis Remembered: The Original Revenge of the Nerd
As Dustin Hoffman and Al Pacino did for leading men, Harold Ramis’ comedies championed a new kind of underdog hero
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‘Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me’ Review: This Showbiz Spitfire Is Very Much Still Here
The larger-than-life Broadway (and TV and film) legend bursts off the screen in this loving but uncompromising documentary
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‘Pompeii’ Review: It’s Basically ‘Titanic’ With Lava — and Without Compelling Leads (Video)
Kit Harington and Emily Browning have about one facial expression between them as star-crossed lovers in this empty epic
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‘In Secret’ Review: Elizabeth Olsen Stars in the ‘John Carter’ of Homicidal Romances
Émile Zola’s “Thérèse Raquin” was a shocker in 1867, but its story elements have been borrowed so many times that they’re threadbare in this passionless remake
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‘Winter’s Tale’ Review: A Love Story With Lots of Colin Farrell and Very Little Sense
This fantasy-romance strives for magical realism, but the logical conundrums and plot conveniences get in the way of the hearts and flowers
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‘RoboCop’ Review: Not a Disastrous Remake, But Still Flat-Footed (Video)
It’s not a dark satire, it’s not ultra-violent, but it’s not much else instead except a competent but unexciting sci-fi action movie with a few good ideas
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‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ Review: Wes Anderson’s Latest an Exhilarating — and Ephemeral — Sugar Rush (Video)
This action-comedy-romance-nostalgia piece is a movie lover’s head-spinning delight, and two hours later you’ll barely remember it
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‘Cavemen’ Review: A Rom-Com That’s a Real Knuckle-Dragger
Despite Skylar Astin and Camilla Belle’s charm, this no-brainer makes “That Awkward Moment” seem like Mamet
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‘The Lego Movie’ Review: Funny Pieces Don’t Click With Heavy-Handed Message (Video)
This is an animated comedy-adventure with a moral — and the movie will grind to a halt to deliver it, even when it spoils the fun
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Remembering Philip Seymour Hoffman: A Fearless Artist, Taken Too Soon
Hoffman devoured the souls of his characters, never afraid to let audiences love or hate or pity them, so long as we were intrigued
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‘At Middleton’ Review: Vera Farmiga and Andy Garcia Are Way Too Cool for This School
Engaging lead performances can only do so much for a flimsy tale that coasts on charm until it falls apart
