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'While We're Young' is skimpy in its female characterizationsThe newest film by writer-director Noah Baumbach has his usual strengths like sharp urban insights and brainy comedy. But it also has a visual style that's serviceable at best.
'Furious 7' is graceless but handles Paul Walker's exit wellThe movie is a clobberfest but if a thriller is only as good as its bad guy, 'Furious 7' does a fairly good job with Jason Statham's Deckard Shaw.
'Serena' aims for tragic monumentality but hits very wide of the markThe movie is a lugubrious period piece in which the production values and the costumes are the true stars.
'The Salt of the Earth' does justice to Sebasti茫o Salgado's life and artSalgado's indelible imagery has captured some of the world鈥檚 most remote and tortuous locations, though the film doesn't really acknowledge the criticism his art has faced.
The top 6 Hollywood celebs: How do they rank in salary and charity? The top Hollywood actors and actresses are earning millions of dollars per movie. Do their big paychecks translate into a desire to give back?- 'Frozen,' 'Princess Mononoke,' and more: How well do you know animated movies?
From the revolutionary 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' to more current films like 'Shrek' and 'How to Train Your Dragon,' animated films long ago proved that they're great for all ages. Are you an animated movies expert? Try your hand at our quiz.
'Insurgent' doesn't stray from the well-worn YA adaptation pathThe two 'Divergent' movies are curiously content to eke out a rigid, lifeless fable in drab futuristic environs and 'Insurgent' has the tale largely spinning its wheels.聽
'The Gunman': Sean Penn is too fine an actor to be mired in nonstop shoot-outsPenn works with 'Taken' director Pierre Morel for the new movie, which has a mostly wasted cast that includes Javier Bardem and Ray Winstone.
'Danny Collins': The film's premise is promising but the protagonist is a theatrical conceitAs written and directed by Dan Fogelman, star Al Pacino's role聽never allows the actor much opportunity to cut below the surface.
'Insurgent': Why the many women in its cast mattersWhen women lead up action-driven films and franchises, it's usually one female against the world, but 'Insurgent,' which hits theaters on March 20, includes multiple female leads and supporting characters played by Shailene Woodley, Naomi Watts, Kate Winslet, and Octavia Spencer.
'Cinderella' tops the box office, while 'Run All Night' stumbles'Cinderella' grossed more than $70 million in North America. Interest in the movie was boosted by a 'Frozen' short that played before the film. Meanwhile, the Liam Neeson action movie 'Run' opened with only $11 million.
'Run All Night' may be the best of the recent Liam Neeson action filmsNeeson stars as a Brooklyn hit man, while Ed Harris portrays a mob boss and Vincent D'Onofrio is a veteran police detective. There's not a lot of fresh ground to this New York crime drama, but the movie offers simple, well-acted genre thrills.
'Cinderella': The new live-action version of the fairy tale never soars'Cinderella' stars Lily James and Richard Madden are charming without being bland, but the movie is more of an聽illustrated storybook of a cherished classic than a living thing in its own聽right.
'Seymour: An Introduction' masterfully conveys the sheer passion involved with great music'Seymour' centers on Seymour Bernstein, an acclaimed pianist who became a renowned piano teacher. The movie is directed by actor Ethan Hawke.
'Frozen 2' is coming, 'Star Wars: Episode VIII' will be in 2017, Disney saysDisney announced that 'Frozen 2' is moving forward and that the second new 'Star Wars' film, 'Star Wars: Episode VIII,' will be released in May 2017 and that Rian Johnson of 'Looper' will write and direct.
'Merchants of Doubt' approaches the climate change controversy from a novel angleThe movie is the newest project from documentarian Robert Kenner, who was behind the film 'Food, Inc.'
'The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel': The movie is 'second-best' to the first movieActress Maggie Smith is great and Asian actors get almost as much screen time as white actors, but the India of this movie is essentially an ersatz confection 鈥� we see almost nothing of dire poverty or political distress.
'Chappie' is jumbled and the movie's logic disintegrates'Chappie' centers on a robot who is built by engineer Deon (Dev Patel) and raised by a group of gangsters.
'Unfinished Business': The comedy starring Vince Vaughn is choppy and all-too-familiarAnyone who's been in a movie theater in the last 10 years will recognize the comedy tropes in 'Business,' in which Vince Vaughn, Tom Wilkinson, and Dave Franco's characters start their own company.聽
Will Smith on box office failures: 'It's a huge emotional shift for me'Smith's movie 'After Earth' didn't perform well at the box office in the summer of 2013, and the actor says it hit him hard at first. 'Mr. July!' he said. 'No. 1! Eight in a row! All of that collapsed and I realized I still was a good person.' Smith stars with Margot Robbie in the movie 'Focus.'
