Banal, lazy filmmaking that cannot even be bothered to be cheerfully cheap and cheesy. Jennifer Lawrence is trapped in something that is constitutionally unable to allow her to be the strong, competent young woman she arrived as. Read more>>

Dismal, yet profound and pungent, ParaNorman makes its points in ways more sharp and brutal than other “children’s” films. This is a story about ostracism and bigotry taken to extremes, and about our own unspoken prejudices and assumptions. Read more>>

Why does Dakota Fanning get to really live onscreen here in a way that Teh Movies don’t usually allow girls to do? Because she’s dying. Read more>>

As a biographical documentary, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel is complete and satisfying. As a leading character, Mrs. Vreeland is entirely entertaining. And so is this documentary profile of and tribute to her. Read more>>

In this contemporary financial thriller, 60 year-old New York hedge-fund manager Robert Miller (Richard Gere) is about to make the deal of a lifetime – and retire in rarefied elegance. Problem is: he’s ‘borrowed’ $412 million dollars from a colleague to cover his assets and is betting that John Mayfield (Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter), representing the major bank that’s about to buy his trading firm, won’t catch on to how he’s cooked-the-books before the deal is done. Read more

Howls with a messy, human authenticity that transcends genre tropes to smack you in the face with beseeching truths about the contradictions of police work. Read more>>

Girls who’ve grown up under difficult circumstances in the former Soviet Union are looking for a way to work their way towards a better life by signing up to model in Tokyo. But, as we see in Girl Model, the path a young model must follow to the professional runway isn’t always as smooth as they imagined it might be. Read more>>

Michelle Rodriguez is nibbling on a piece of cheese. It’s early in the morning in San Diego and she is promoting Resident Evil: Retribution, another installment of the successful movies based on a super violent video game. Michelle is dressed in her usual black pants and shirt. She has this infectious laughter when she talks – which makes her sympathetic as hell. Known for her tough girl and super badass roles, she sat down and explained why it’s unlikely that she will wear a dress in a movie….
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In “Detropia,” filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady focus on the woes of the once prosperous city of Detroit, heartland America’s industrial capital and headquarters for the nation’s auto makers, but now in deep economic decline and civic crisis. Read more>>

In real life, a bike messenger with a death wish is an urban hazard. But in a zippy popcorn flick and played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt? He’s a charmer… Read more>>