A bright young man at a fancy tech company (Domhnall Gleeson) gets picked to visit the company’s founder (Oscar Isaac) in his country home, er, homey concrete fortress. There, he is introduced to Ava (Alicia Vikander), a sweet and pretty …
by Matthew LickonaWe open on gadgets, effects, and a chase filmed in jiggly close-up that makes it impossible to discern what’s going on. The image eventually stabilizes which is more than can be said for an insufficient script that too often relies …
by Scott MarksPlump computer cartoon about a tubby panda (voice of Jack Black, tubby typecasting), an envious aficionado of the martial arts, dissatisfied with his lowborn “place” in the family noodle business. Wanting nothing more than to witness the anointment of the …
by Duncan ShepherdIt’s telling that the two war photographers at the center of Alex Gar…
Early on in director, co-writer, and star Dev Patel’s madcap mashup o…
Author Henry James parable of paralyzing anxiety The Beast in the Jun…
Lawrence of Arrakis meets Dr. Sandworm, or, How I Learned to Stop Wor…
Michael Mohan delivers a fun if flawed twist on the old argument betw…
This creature-feature has, and is, a good time, but it works very har…
Over the course of ten days and 435 miles, an unbreakable bond is for…
From award-winning director Alejandro Monteverde comes the true-life …
Eager to leave his dark past behind, Finbar Murphy (Liam Neeson) lead…
What is there to say? That Kristen Stewart can act — that she can inh…
Alejandro is an aspiring toy designer who's struggling to bring his u…
Aren is recruited into a secret society of magical Black people who d…
Indecipherable exegesis, anyone? From the relative safety of a highrise bathed in the apocalyptic glow of the burnt-orange evening sun, Harper (Jessie Buckley) watches in horror as her husband plummets past the living room window to the ground below. With …
by Scott MarksA not despicable reprise of the same material, juvenile yet jaded, profoundly lazy and lackadaisical, sufficiently disdainful, even, to aim an occasional joke over the heads of the rubes (something about "my Laura Antonelli tapes"). It is least despicable when …
by Duncan ShepherdMore animated martial arts and loveable Chinese-bear antics in Jennifer Yuh’s sequel. Voices by Jack Black, Gary Oldman, Dustin Hoffman, Seth Rogen, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Jean-Claude Van Damme.