• Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made

    Capsule Reviews: February 2020 Digital Releases

    All the Bright Places Calling this a movie about sad teens in love is unfairly reductive, but that doesn’t mean it’s an inaccurate description. Violet (Elle Fanning) is still reeling from the car accident she survived several months earlier, but which her sister did not — and we first meet ...
  • How to Be Single

    How to Be Single

    So many romantic comedies feature female protagonists who are professionally successful, intelligent, and educated, but whose entire self-worth is nevertheless determined by whether or not they have a boyfriend. We’ve been trained by years of movies starring Meg Ryan and Sandra Bullock and Kate Hudson to think that a woman’s ...
  • Deadpool

    What’s New: Weekend of February 12

    This weekend, expect Kung Fu Panda 3 to end its reign as #1, as three new films open, all of which seem likely to appeal to mass audiences. Plus, Michael Moore’s first documentary in seven years! The film which appears to have the greatest chance of winning the weekend is ...
  • The Visit

    What’s New: Weekend of September 11

    Here we are now at the beginning of the fall movie season. The big juicy movies that we’ve been waiting for are just around the corner, but we’re not quite there yet. Last week’s holiday weekend was financially very underwhelming at the box office, and this weekend will likely be ...
  • Chappie

    Capsule Reviews: March 2015 Wide Releases

    Chappie Inferior mash-up of RoboCop and A.I. set in a dystopian Johannesburg where robots act as the police force. When a programmer illegally reprograms one of them to be sentient, the robot is "raised" by a couple of wannabe-gangsters (Ninja and Yolandi Visser from the South African band Die Antwoord, ...