Movie Reviews & Stories It may be unfair to compare mixed martial arts flick Warrior with last Christmas’ widely acclaimed boxing biopic The Fighter. But they’re both about two brothers punching other men—and sometimes   More

Movie Reviews & Stories For all The River Why’s ponderous grasps for the meaning of life, nobody can accuse the movie of trying to be too universal. Not after the hero, a young man named Augustine Orviston (Zach Gilford   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Alex de la Iglesia’s glossy grindhouse lark, The Last Circus, opens with a nasty, over-the-big-top bloodbath. We’re in Spain. It’s 1937. Franco’s on the rise. A newly conscripted Republican    More

Movie Reviews & Stories John Sayles’ career is a maddeningly prismatic thing. So varied is the ambidextrous writer-director’s list of accomplishments that James Franco, following an ill-advised perusal of Sayles’ Wi   More

Movie Reviews & Stories John Madden’s The Debt feels like a talented but glib college student trying to pass a modern European history exam with an essay on the repercussions of the Holocaust and the founding of Israel   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Evan Glodell, the writer, director and star of Bellflower, has said that his debut movie was inspired by a bad breakup, which is about as revelatory a disclosure as Martin Scorsese admitting that Me   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Chicago epidemiologist Gary Slutkin likens societal violence to bubonic plague in its capacity to spread uncontrollably through a cycle of retribution and domination. His urban organization, CeaseF   More

Movie Reviews & Stories I have seen Steam of Life twice now, but it was only after going over my notes from both viewings that I realized just how frequently the dread specter of death noses into the proceedings. I’d li   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Hey, man, I don’t have any problem with your movie. It’s cool that you’re out there doing what you do, really making things, you know? I really dug that part at the end, when—oh, you don’t    More

Movie Reviews & Stories Vampire movies have sucked all the fun out of being a vampire.  These days, Dracula’s progeny are always moping around, sparkling   More