As people continued to flock to the two biggest hits of the holiday season, four new wide releases made their debuts in the final weekend of January, to very mixed results. Surprising nobody, the #1 film of the week was Kung Fu Panda 3, which nevertheless had the lowest opening ...

Of the weekend’s three new releases, one clearly stood out as a major hit, one found minor success, and a third was an outright flop. Meanwhile, the two big box office sensations of the past few weeks continued to rake in the dough. The Ice Cube/Kevin Hart comedy sequel Ride ...

In this second weekend of the new year, Star Wars: The Force Awakens continued to dominate the charts and break records. This week, it passed Avatar to become the highest-grossing film ever in North America — and it also becomes (in only its third weekend) the first film ever to ...

Happy New Year, friends! It has been quite a while since there’s been any activity on the site, and during the busiest time of the movie year at that. I’m sorry for the unexpected silence, but it should be smooth sailing from here on out. In any case, here we ...

American Sniper I'm torn on this one. My first instinct was to grade this slightly higher for what is a gripping, well-acted war movie that explores the toll relentless killing takes on a soldier. However, the politics of this thing make me uneasy. That the film offers an overly simplified, ...