• Mad Max: Fury Road

    Capsule Reviews: May 2015 Wide Releases

    Aloha Comedy (?) where Bradley Cooper plays a military contractor and former soldier who returns to Hawaii for a secret new assignment, where he makes amends with his ex (Rachel McAdams) and finds new love. Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous, Vanilla Sky) was one of the most promising filmmakers ...
  • Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

    What’s New: Weekend of March 25

    Two new sequels are opening in theatres this weekend, and you can expect one of them to do enormous business, despite atrocious reviews. That film is Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the new sequel to Man of Steel and second entry in the DC Extended Universe film series. What ...
  • The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

    The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

    Guy Ritchie has always been, if anything, a very stylish director. He launched his career with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, two very idiosyncratic films that wielded their surprising lowlife vulgarity as a kind of cinematic street art; these early films established Ritchie as an auteur with ...