Out of Step: A Monument to a Great Music Critic. Snowpiercer: Dystopia Revisited. Transformers: Age of Extinction: Whatever.
Nat Hentoff gets his due, Chris Evans hops a train, and Michael Bay does what he does all over again.
Kurt Loder Movie Reviews
22 Jump Street and The Rover: Top Drawer Laughs, Bottom-Shelf Dystopia
Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill score again, Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson…don't.
The Fault in Our Stars and Edge of Tomorrow: Teenage Tears and Blockbusting Terrors
Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort cement their stardom, and Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt kick several acres of alien butt.
A Million Ways to Die in the West Is a One-Note Jokefest, Maleficent Is Modern Disney Magic
Seth MacFarlane is not quite ready for the big screen, but Angelina Jolie rules over a Sleeping Beauty spinoff.
X-Men: Days of Future Past Is Near-Perfect, While Cold in July Has an Old-School Flair
Hugh Jackman in a time-tripping blockbuster, Michael C. Hall and Don Johnson in a nasty little noir.
Godzilla Brings Monsters To Life
Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Bryan Cranston in a great monster mashup.
Demented Excess and More in Chef, Neighbors, and Palo Alto
Food porn, frat boys, and teenage wasteland revisited
Blood Glacier Isn't Total Crap; Zombeavers Is
Screaming death birds and undead aqua-rodents.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Grapples With Love, Death, and CGI
Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone return in an overwrought arachnid adventure.
The Other Woman Brings New Twists to Chick Flicks
Leslie Mann classes up a predictable movie that has a light, jaunty comic rhythm.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch is Neil Patrick Harris' One-Man Show
The onstage band kicks, and the songs are fierce.
In Your Eyes: A DIY showcase
Joss Whedon's newest flick isn't just a great new movie. Its distribution model may be the future of great new movies.
Divergent and Nymphomaniac: Volume I
Shailene Woodley breaks out, Lars von Trier goes all the way.
Veronica Mars and Grand Piano
Kristen Bell back on the case, Elijah Wood playing for his life.
The Grand Budapest Hotel and 300: Rise of an Empire
Ralph Fiennes between two wars, ancient Greeks back in the thick of one.
Labor Day and Tim's Vermeer
Kate Winslet in a slushy romance, Penn and Teller on the trail of an artistic mystery.
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and Big Bad Wolves
Chris Pine in a franchise reboot, and a startling creepfest from Israel.
The Wolf of Wall Street
Martin Scorsese's electrifying tale of sex and drugs and very dirty money.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, American Hustle, and Saving Mr. Banks
Dragons and dirtbags and Disney revisited.
Inside Llewyn Davis and Out of the Furnace
The Coen brothers unplugged, Woody Harrelson unchained.
Nebraska and Charlie Countryman
A road trip with Bruce Dern and Will Forte, and a Romanian holiday with Shia LaBeouf.
Thor: The Dark World and About Time
Thunder god in diminishing return, romance in the past-tense.
Dallas Buyers Club and Ender's Game
Matthew McConaughey scores again, and a sci-fi classic sags on the screen.
Blue Is the Warmest Color and The Counselor
A great film from France and a Ridley Scott misfire.
12 Years a Slave and All Is Lost
Chiwetel Ejiofor in a stunning slavery tale, Robert Redford adrift on the stormy ocean.
Captain Phillips, Machete Kills, and CBGB
Tom Hanks goes to sea, the Mexican avenger returns, and a punk-rock chronicle flames out.
Gravity and Runner Runner
Bullock and Clooney lost in space, Justin Timberlake drawing a bad hand.
Don Jon, We Are What We Are and Muscle Shoals
Joseph Gordon-Levitt scores, horror finds a new style, and Southern R&B lives again.
