Fantastic Four
Fantastic Four has all the nuts and bolts and moving parts of a fun modern superhero movie—from attractive stars to CGI bombast. But it’s a super-suited tin man seeking a heart.
Lucy
Evolution, brain-pumping drugs, superpowers, gangland shoot-’em-ups … and Scarlett Johansson. Another Avenger’s pic? Not even close.
Magic in the Moonlight
This is tricky territory to be sure, often more smoke and mirrors than serious substance.
And So It Goes
Weighed down by foul language, inappropriate talk and sexuality unconnected to marriage, And So It Goes is neither as beautiful or as wholesome as you might think it should be.
A Most Wanted Man
One of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s final acting turns, A Most Wanted Man, is a mature, measured look at the modern cloak-and-dagger trade.
Persecuted
It has its problems, both in terms of content and plot and even message. But its subject is a timely one, well worth putting much more thought into than most of us usually do.
Sex Tape
The idea for it was born in a bottle. The execution of it was filmed for the masses. The end of it was an obscene embarrassment.
The Purge: Anarchy
It’s 2023 and time for another night of lawlessness, a night when murder is legal, our worst sins are condoned and society rids itself of its most “problematic” members.
Wish I Was Here
Writer/director/actor Zach Braff follows up Garden State with a wistful rumination on lessons yet to be learned … and foul language already spewed. It’ll make you say, “Wish I Wasn’t Hearing This!”
Boyhood
It seems to me that the moments people might spend watching this film could be more fully lived somewhere else.