Money Monster
WHO'S IN CONTROL? During a live broadcast of a financial talk show, a distraught young man (Jack O’Connell) takes…
Suburbicon
WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD. In 1959, an African-American family moves into a white neighborhood at the same time as…
Tomorrowland
IMAGINE A PLACE WHERE NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE. Casey Newton (Britt Robertson) finds a pin that shows her a vision…
Three Kings
IN A WAR WITHOUT HEROES THEY ARE KINGS. After the Gulf War, a group of Army officers get their…
Hail, Caesar!
LIGHTS. CAMERA. ABDUCTION. In 1951, Hollywood fixer Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin) juggles a busy life, including trying to find…
The Men Who Stare at Goats
NO GOATS. NO GLORY. After flying to Kuwait to report on the Iraq War, journalist Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor)…
The Monuments Men
IT WAS THE GREATEST ART HEIST IN HISTORY. In 1943, art conservationist Frank Stokes (George Clooney) talks President Roosevelt…
Gravity: More Science, Less Hollywood
DON'T LET GO. Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and the most famous person working at the American Museum of Natural…
Spy Kids
REAL SPIES... ONLY SMALLER. Two retired spies (Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino), who are now married and raising two kids…
Argo: The Great Escape
THE MOVIE WAS FAKE. THE MISSION WAS REAL. In my reviews of Persepolis (2007) and A Separation (2011), I wrote…
Thin Red Line: Days of Hell
EVERY MAN FIGHTS HIS OWN WAR. “I didn’t think he was capable of betrayal of this magnitude.” That quote…
The Descendants: Trouble in Paradise
In a recent interview, Alexander Payne said that he’s only made minor films and that he’s still hoping to…
The Ides of March
AMBITION SEDUCES. POWER CORRUPTS. Shortly ahead of a Democratic presidential primary in Ohio, Pennsylvania Governor Mike Morris’s (George Clooney)…