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 ...

When we saw them last nearly 20 years ago, the Griswolds were getting themselves into one predicament after another during their trip to Las Vegas. But in the new film Vacation, time has passed, the kids have grown up, and young Rusty is now an airline pilot with a family ...

After the first sequel to The Hangover proved to be identical to the original, only transferred to a new setting and less funny, I confess that I wasn’t exactly champing at the bit to sit through a third go-round of director Todd Phillips’s Tales of the Wolf Pack. To my ...