Few actors are as legendary as Robert De Niro. Beginning with Mean Streets, De Niro built a jaw-dropping portfolio throughout the ’70s — The Godfather: Part II, Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, Raging Bull — immediately establishing himself as one of the greatest film actors of all time. He was ...

Backcountry Terrific thriller about a couple who gets lost while hiking in the Ontario wilderness and attacked by a bear. And, man, is this film terrifying — once your heart stops pounding and you remember to resume breathing, you'll vow never to step foot outside the city limit ever again. ...

This winter, audiences have been gifted with yet another adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s 19th-century novel Jane Eyre. From director William Brent Bell (The Devil Inside) comes the new spooky horror thriller The Boy, which… is not actually an adaptation of Jane Eyre at all. Except the film so closely mirrors ...

When it comes to film franchises based on young-adult fiction, we have seen the supernatural trend (Harry Potter, Twilight) of the aughts gradually give way to the dystopian craze sweeping theatres today. The Hunger Games is obviously the genre standard-bearer with its enormous box office returns and great reviews (and ...

A year ago, in mid-January, Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper expanded into wide release and became an instant phenomenon. It quickly assumed its position as the highest-grossing film of 2014 and picked up some major Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture. So it makes complete sense that the very same ...

Remakes. Hollywood makes them faster than audiences can consume them, even if it’s just to complain about how they don’t measure up to the originals. I know I’ve fallen into this trap more times than I can count, each time hoping for a different result. Don’t get me wrong; there ...

Even though we’re currently deep into award-season celebrating the best films of 2015, a period of non-stop kudos that will last for another good month and a half, the new year has already begun revealing the titles it has to offer. The very first film of 2016 is supernatural horror ...

There are films that you engage with on an intellectual level. And then there are films like No Escape that you experience with the rest of your body. The new film about an American family trying to escape to safety after a military coup breaks out in Southeast Asia is ...

It’s truly difficult to figure out how to start writing this review of the new film Hitman: Agent 47, based on the popular video game series. What is there to say about a film so shallow and joyless whose greatest accomplishment is desensitizing its viewers to violence and murder to ...

We’ve seen plenty of spy thrillers and countless stoner comedies, but have we ever seen a stoner spy movie? That’s the conceit of the new film American Ultra anyway, and it’s a mish-mash that takes the best qualities of each genre and becomes something new that’s actually really fun. A ...