After the intense sadness that they wove throughout their last film, 2013’s great Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel and Ethan Coen switch gears into pure light-hearted silliness with their latest, Hail, Caesar! This isn’t the first time that the auteur brothers have made a broad all-star comedy to cleanse their palate ...

The first weekend of February brings with it three new wide releases, and it’s quite the eclectic bunch. There’s a goofy comedy from high-brow iconic auteur brothers, a sappy Nicholas Sparks adaptation, and, er, a British costume drama horror comedy. That last one is Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, based ...

When it comes to judging the merits of a road trip movie — and there are so many of these that it’s basically a legitimate sub-genre of cinema by this point — the most logical way to proceed is on a scale of Crossroads (dismal failure) to National Lampoon’s Vacation ...

The DUFF Mae Whitman gives a fantastic performance in this sweet, funny film. Many reviewers have called this the next Mean Girls or Easy A — but it's nowhere near as clever or original as those two entries in the teen comedy canon; every beat happens exactly as you'd expect ...

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, ...