Top Movie Reviews

  • 'They Came Together' Movie Review

    Over dinner with friends, candy conglomerate executive Joel (Paul Rudd), joins chipper confectionary emporium owner Molly (Amy Poehler) in telling the adorable, improbable tale of how they met

  • 'Third Person' Movie Review

    Women! They're all desperate, relentless sources of internal and external conflict in 'Third Person,' the exasperating drama about how hard it is for a nice guy to be left alone. Liam Neeson stars as that guy

  • 'Ivory Tower' Movie Review

    Is college overrated? Is it worth its ever-increasing cost? Has it been oversold as the key to a child's brighter future? The stimulating documentary 'Ivory Tower' asks all these tough questions

  • 'Jersey Boys' Movie Review

    'Jersey Boys' the movie is a different, more sedate animal than the Broadway musical. In this case, those who missed the theatrical edition of the tale of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons may wonder what the fuss was about

  • 'The Rover' Movie Review

    Masterfully brought to life by Guy Pearce in a performance of pure controlled ferocity, Eric and his implacable, obsessive, stop-at-nothing quest to recover his stolen vehicle is the centerpiece of the tense and remorseless 'The Rover'

  • 'Think Like a Man Too' Movie Review

    'Think Like a Man Too' allows Kevin Hart to let loose. The gang reunites in Vegas for the meticulously planned wedding of Candace (Regina Hall) and Michael (Terrence Jenkins). The funniest scene is familiar, but it works

  • 'Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas' Movie Review

    Hot on the heels of the injustice tale "The Hunt," stone-faced Danish heartthrob Mads Mikkelsen plays another wronged man in the medieval saga "Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas"

  • 'Maleficent' Movie Review

    Disney's "Maleficent" is all about second thoughts. Our dominate anti-heroine (Angelina Jolie) spends much of the film as Aurora's conflicted fairy godmother, her heart warming, reluctantly, to the girl under the spell

  • 'Cold in July' Movie Review

    Only in Texas could the neo-noir of "Cold in July" be so believable. This striking new entry in pulp fiction stars Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard and Don Johnson in a tangled tale of crime and punishment that mines the Lone Star lore

  • 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' Movie Review

    There is so much plot in 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' which brings together the cast of the original X-Men films and the upstarts of the clever 2011 reboot 'X-Men: First Class' -- effectively teaming up several generations of X-Men

  • 'Blended' Movie Review

    Drew Barrymore, in her third pairing with Adam Sandler, still brings energy and conviction to her performance as Lauren, a mother of two thrown together on an African vacation with this lump (Adam Sandler) she met on the blind date from hell

  • 'The Immigrant' Movie Review

    "The Immigrant," starring Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix and Jeremy Renner, is one of those prickly period pieces about hard times that gets under your skin and leaves you unsettled long after. Its story is far more about survival than love

  • 'Ida' Movie Review

    One of the year's gems, photographed in velvety, expressive black-and-white by two different cinematographers working as one, "Ida" accomplishes so much, so surely in its 80 minutes, it's as if the director Pawel Pawlikowski had dared himself

  • 'Godzilla' Movie Review

    The premise of screenwriter Max Borenstein's script, taken from a story by David Callaham, rewrites, cleverly, the Godzilla lore as we know it. What first appears to be a plant meltdown is, of course, being caused by the radiation-seeking monster

  • 'Palo Alto' Movie Review

    'Palo Alto' revolves around a small group of high school kids in a suburban anywhere. The film follows shy April (Emma Roberts), who falls into a secret affair with her soccer coach (James Franco) as drifting Teddy (Jack Kilmer) pines for her from a distance

  • 'Million Dollar Arm' Movie Review

    In Disney's 'Million Dollar Arm,' a modest but heartening surprise, Jon Hamm steps up into a comfortable leading role, that of a sports agent who brings baseball to India and then brings a couple of promising teenage athletes to Southern California

  • 'God's Pocket' Movie Review

    If you were hoping that the late Philip Seymour Hoffman's film "God's Pocket" -- based on Pete Dexter's novel about the bad breaks of lowlifes in South Philly -- would feature yet another of the actor's distinctive turns, you are fresh out of luck

  • 'For No Good Reason' Movie Review

    The inventively shot and constructed documentary 'For No Good Reason' is an absorbing look at the unique work of British cartoonist Ralph Steadman. The film is directed by Charlie Paul and narrated by -- and also co-starring -- Steadman's friend and admirer Johnny Depp

  • 'Neighbors' Movie Review

    One part smart, one part stupid and three parts jokes, 'Neighbors' is a strange success story. Directed by Nicholas Stoller, 'Neighbors' sets up a series of conflicts as a suburban couple goes head-to-head with a fraternity next door

  • 'Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return' Movie Review

    'Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return' is a harmless but almost charmless adaptation of a book by L. Frank Baum's grandson. It's a derivative hash of grandpa's story, set in the present day

  • 'Devil's Knot' Movie Review

    Reese Witherspoon stars as Pam, whose adoring 8-year-old son, Stevie, was one of three who rode his bike off into dense woods, only to be found murdered in shallow Devil's Den creek. There's too much tragedy and grief here for a single movie

  • 'Moms' Night Out' Movie Review

    Faith-based films have become commonplace this year. But faith-based comedies? 'Moms' Night Out' -- a PG-rated romp that never romps -- lacks the jokes, sight gags, pacing and performances that laughs are made of

  • 'Bright Days Ahead' Movie Review

    Caroline, played by 64-year-old Fanny Ardant, has an affair with Julien, played by 41-year-old Laurent Lafitte, in 'Bright Days Ahead,' and that's pretty much all there is. Lame humor and underdeveloped drama make little of the theme

  • 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2'

    'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' is a decent superhero franchise product, lent some personality by Andrew Garfield's easy, push-pull rapport with Emma Stone, who plays Gwen, freshly graduated from high school, in love with Peter Parker

  • 'Locke'

    "Locke" is a solo act, and Tom Hardy is its superbly talented soloist. Fate has conspired against Ivan Locke. He's a successful construction manager who, married with two boys, had a bantamweight sexual encounter with a woman

  • 'Watermark' Movie Review

    'Watermark' will make you question society's contradictory view of water use. The clear liquid is as essential to human life as it is threatened, yet we don't seem to be able to do what it takes to make sure it stays available enough to keep us alive

  • 'No God, No Master' Movie Review

    Dreadfully earnest about its politics in the manner of John Sayles at his preachiest, the indie historical thriller 'No God, No Master' draws a line from the civil unrest of 1920s anti-immigrant America to today's terror-besotted society

  • 'Transcendence' Movie Review

    Johnny Depp plays Dr. Will Caster. He and his researcher wife, Evelyn (Rebecca Hall), have pioneered AI inching the human race ever-closer to transcendence, the ability to imbue a powerful computer with the personality, memories and foibles of a human being

  • 'Big Men' Movie Review

    No single resource is more essential to modern life than oil, and no film offers a more incisive look at how the enormous wealth oil subverts the morality of individuals, corporations, even entire countries than Rachel Boynton's compelling documentary "Big Men"

  • 'Draft Day' Movie Review

    'Draft Day' lives and dies on the low-key spectacle of Kevin Costner maneuvering his way through an administrative obstacle course, crises intermingling with draft-pick opportunities. Costner plays Sonny Weaver, the fictional GM of the Cleveland Browns

  • 'Rio 2' Movie Review

    The 2011 hit 'Rio' was a baby sitter. And so is 'Rio 2,' a routine sequel following the perilous adventures of the rare blue macaws Blu, Jewel and their offspring as they leave urban Rio life for a chaotic trip to Amazon rain forest country

  • 'Dom Hemingway' Movie Review

    In 'Dom Hemingway,' a facile, Guy Ritchie-esque crime jape, Jude Law goes to town, dines out on the scenery, spits out the scenery and then chews it up again as a London safecracker of insatiable appetites and Olympian self-regard

  • 'Frankie & Alice' Movie Review

    'Frankie & Alice' is inspired by the true story of an African American go-go dancer with multiple personalities who struggles to remain her true self while fighting against two very unique alter egos: a seven-year-old child and a Southern white racist woman

  • 'Ernest & Celestine' Movie Review

    'Ernest & Celestine,' the charming French-Belgium, Oscar-nominated animated film, is about a bear and a mouse whose artistic tendencies are forever getting them into trouble. Marked as outsiders by their respective societies, they forge an unlikely friendship

  • 'Finding Vivian Maier' Movie Review

    'Finding Vivian Maier' captures the bittersweet life, stealth photographic career and tantalizing riddle embodied by Vivian Maier (1926-2009). For much of her life Maier lived and worked as a nanny in Chicago's well-heeled northern suburbs

  • Kenneth Turan Reviews 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier'

    Kenneth Turan reviews Marvel's latest movie 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' starring Chris Evans, Sebastian Stan, Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Mackie, and Scarlett Johansson

  • 'Noah' Movie Review

    Noah played with steely purpose by Russell Crowe, is a flawed, angry and conflicted man just trying to do his job: Listen to the Creator, prepare for the cleansing, annihilating flood to fulfill his mission and then live with the consequences

  • 'Sabotage' Movie Review

    There's a weird, bashful moment in 'Sabotage' when Olivia Williams, atypically cast as a tough Atlanta police detective, is drawn like a moth to the flame of Arnold Schwarzenegger's lips. At least the screenwriters keep the moral compass spinning

  • 'Jodorowsky's Dune' Movie Review

    The beauty of Frank Pavich's documentary 'Jodorowsky's Dune' is twofold. It's a fond tribute to erratic, creative crackpots everywhere, and to films that almost got the green light, nearly got made and practically had a chance to change the world

  • 'Divergent' Movie Review

    Being a 'divergent' means you avoid easy categorization and defy the crushing dictates of your overseers. The movie version of 'Divergent' is no divergent. It goes along to get along. It's tame, formulaic and strictly by the book in every sense

  • 'Bad Words' Movie Review

    Surprisingly sweet, the black comedy of 'Bad Words,' starring Jason Bateman, is high-minded, foul-mouthed good nonsense. It zeros in on the bizarre world of spelling bees, a petri dish of strange behavior between bright kids and zealous parents

  • 'Enemy' Movie Review

    Based on 'The Double' by novelist Jose Saramago, 'Enemy' stars Jake Gyllenhaal. We're in Toronto, where a history professor, played by Gyllenhaal, tries to rally his half-empty lecture halls with warnings of the totalitarian state

  • 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' Movie Review

    'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is clever and most gorgeous, dipping just enough of a toe in the real world -- and in the melancholy works of the late Austrian writer Stefan Zweig -- to prevent the movie from floating off into the ether

  • 'Need for Speed' Movie Review

    When the actors are in cars, 'Need for Speed' is fun. When they get out to seethe, it's uh-oh time. Happily, director Scott Waugh comes out of the stunt world, and there's a refreshing emphasis on actual stunt driving over digital absurdities

  • 'Veronica Mars' Movie Review

    Although 'Veronica Mars' does its duty in identifying the major characters on the fly, this one's strictly for the fan base. Anybody who works in tech support will probably enjoy the film a tad more than I did

  • '300: Rise of an Empire' Movie Review

    Even with a change in directors and a half-enlightened, half-salacious emphasis on the voracious Persian conqueror, '300: Rise of an Empire' hews closely to the look, vibe and the casualty count of its 2007 predecessor, helmed by Zack Snyder

  • 'Mr. Peabody and Sherman' Movie Review

    The frantic, occasionally funny new animated feature 'Mr. Peabody and Sherman' is a 3-D big-screen version of a defiantly 2-D (if that) and utterly fantastic early 1960s artifact, endlessly replayed on television throughout the '70s and beyond

  • 'Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me' Movie Review

    'Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me' focuses on Stritch's valiant return to cabaret, struggling with a rickety memory and various physical ailments. A lifelong alcoholic, Stritch appears to have that part of her existence relatively under control now

  • 'Visitors' Movie Review

    'Visitors' is the latest collaboration between director Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass. 'Visitors' is an art piece masquerading as a movie, and whether you think that's a good thing will determine your reaction to what's on the screen

  • 'Kids for Cash' Movie Review

    'Kids for Cash' is a riveting look behind the notorious judicial scandal that rocked the nation. Beyond the millions paid and high stakes corruption, Kids For Cash exposes a shocking American secret about the judge hell-bent on keeping kids in line

  • 'Stalingrad' Movie Review

    'Stalingrad' is an epic look at the battle that turned the tide of World War II. A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building against a ruthless Nazi army, and in the process become deeply connected to two Russian women

  • 'Lone Survivor' Movie Review

    I wasn't eager about seeing 'Lone Survivor.' What worried me was that it would turn out to be a typical Hollywood war movie. But it wasn't a typical Hollywood war movie. It is about morality and the cost and a mission gone wrong. And I'm glad I saw it

  • '3 Days to Kill' Movie Review

    Kevin Costner and director McG are plunged into the madcap mayhem of Monsieur Luc Besson in "3 Days to Kill," a seriocomic thriller about mortality, murder for hire and fatherhood. It's also about car chases and epic shootouts

  • 'The Wind Rises' Movie Review

    'The Wind Rises' is being marketed as the 'farewell masterpiece' of Japanese writer-director Hayao Miyazaki. If this is indeed Miyazaki's farewell, it's a fine one. It makes the dream of flight itself a vehicle for bittersweet enchantment

  • 'In Secret' Movie Review

    'In Secret', set in Paris and the French countryside, is led by Elizabeth Olsen as Therese, abandoned by her father at a young age, raised in provincial anonymity by her aunt (Jessica Lange). Lange has such an interesting emotion inside her

  • 'The Last of the Unjust' Movie Review

    What's unique about 'The Last of the Unjust' are the thoughts of Benjamin Murmelstein. Murmelstein was the last surviving head of a Judenrat, the Jewish councils set up to administer, under Nazi supervision, concentration camps

  • 'Stranger by the Lake' Movie Review

    Despite the sunshine, gentle breezes and placid waters, something wicked this way comes in "Stranger by the Lake," French filmmaker Alain Guiraudie's tantalizingly erotic fable of love, passion and death.

  • 'The New Black' Movie Review

    When California voters passed Prop. 8 in 2008 outlawing same-sex marriage, many rushed to cast blame on African-Americans. That indictment was the catalyst for the documentary "The New Black," a clear-eyed look at the same-sex marriage debate

  • 'The Lego Movie' Movie Review

    A movie that, in its brilliantly crammed first half especially, will work even if you don't give a rip about Legos. "The Lego Movie" proves that you can soar directly into and then straight past product placement into a realm of the sublime, if you're clever enough

  • 'RoboCop' Movie Review

    The American public won't support robot police officers, unless they can package them as human-ish. Joel Kinnaman plays Alex Murphy, the Detroit police detective critically injured and reconfigured, by Gary Oldman's kindly OmniCorp researcher

  • 'About Last Night' Movie Review

    'About Last Night,' which is about hookups and relationships and the photogenic allure of the revitalized downtown Los Angeles, comes with a strange pedigree. Danny and Bernie are best pals played by Michael Ealy and Kevin Hart

  • 'Vampire Academy' Movie Review

    The various young blood suckers of 'Vampire Academy' belong to clans, with a royal family, 'guardians' of those royals, and silver daggers they use to kill each other. It's a self-aware horror / action comedy

  • 'The Monuments Men' Movie Review

    George Clooney plays a Harvard art historian based on George Stout, a World War I veteran returning to the fields and villages of battle with a different objective this time. He's a far better actor than many realize; but this time he sort of George-Clooney his way through

  • '7 Boxes' Movie Review

    Run Victor run! A swift and clever thriller from Paraguay, '7 Boxes' joins a list of diversions from all over the world -- the German "Run Lola Run"; the Philippine "Slingshot"; and Hollywood's "Premium Rush" -- built for speed, organized chaos and headlong velocity

  • 'If You Build It' Movie Review

    A struggling community finds its own kind of field of dreams in 'If You Build It,' Patrick Creadon's fine documentary about a teaching program that from 2010 to 2012 inspired a group of teens in tiny Windsor, N.C.

  • Asghar Farhad's 'The Past' Movie Review

    After a four year separation, Ahmad returns to Paris from Tehran, upon his estranged wife's request, in order to finalize their divorce so she can re-marry. During his tense brief stay, Ahmad discovers the conflicting nature of his wife's relationship with her daughter

  • 'At Berkeley' Movie Review

    'At Berkeley' is documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman's latest on the inner workings of American institutions. He embarked on a three-month project, auditing with their cameras for a semester or so in the life of University of California at Berkeley

  • 'Liv and Ingmar' Movie Review

    'Liv and Ingmar' is a lovely and lyrical documentary about the passionate, mutually inspiring yet fraught relationship between the late filmmaker Ingmar Bergman and his lover, frequent collaborator and, ultimately, dear friend, actress Liv Ullmann

  • 'Breakfast With Curtis' Movie Review

    Neighborly strife comes to a head in the film's first scene, when Syd blows his top at his 9-year-old neighbor for throwing a rock at a cat. Tension then dissipates from the movie, leaving just enough friction to perhaps produce a second of static cling

  • 'Her' Movie Review  | Movie Reviews Site

    A delicate, droll masterwork, "Her" sticks its neck out asserting that what the world needs now and evermore is love, sweet love. It tells a love story about a forlorn writer, played by refreshingly rage-free and wholly inspired Joaquin Phoenix, who is remarkable as Theodore

  • 'The Wolf of Wall Street' Movie Review  | Movie Reviews Site

    At Stratton Oakmont, the Wall Street brokerage firm run by Jordan Belfort, the customer wasn't king. Belfort's illegalities and near-death experiences were lovingly self-chronicled in his memoirs. Now Martin Scorsese has made a picture about the man and his pleasure missions

  • 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' Movie Review  | Movie Reviews Site

    In director Ben Stiller's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," Stiller himself takes the role of the daydreaming fellow. Mitty is the center of an easygoing self-actualization travelogue in which the title character, here conceived as a photo archivist for Life magazine

  • 'Walking With Dinosaurs' Movie Review | Movie Reviews Site

    The BBC series 'Walking With Dinosaurs' gets a kid-friendly big-screen treatment. 'Walking With Dinosaurs 3D' might be too childish for anybody older than 12, but the effort to pass knowledge on to young dinosaur fans make it as at home in the classroom as it is in theaters

  • 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' Movie Review | Movie Reviews Site

    Peter Jackson's sequel to the first "Hobbit" is livelier than its predecessor. The sequel interpolates sections of "The Quest of Erebor" setting up an alliance between Thorin Oakenshield and our old pal Gandalf. The dwarves want their kingdom back, and Smaug is the dragon in the way

  • 'Saving Mr. Banks' Movie Review | Movie Reviews Site

    Emma Thompson is swell as 'Mary Poppins' author P.L. Travers, who travels to Los Angeles in 1961 for a couple of contentious weeks in the pre-production life of the 'Mary Poppins' film released three years later. There are other fine actors on screen, among them Tom Hanks as Disney

  • 'The Punk Singer' Movie Review | Movie Reviews Site

    Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre, rose to national attention as the reluctant but never shy voice of the riot grrrl movement. She became one of the most famously outspoken feminist icons, a cultural lightning rod

  • 'The Ghosts in Our Machine' Movie Review | Movie Reviews Site

    "The Ghosts in Our Machine," a heartfelt meditation on animal rights, comes at you as a whisper. It depends on the persuasive powers of creatures great and small -- in their natural habitat or in cages -- to argue that we stop using them for food, clothing , research and entertainment

  • 'Bettie Page Reveals All' Movie Review | Movie Reviews Site

    In the kicky documentary "Bettie Page Reveals All," the 1950s cult pin-up gal with the trademark bangs is called "the first icon of her nature," "an extraordinary creature" and a "revolutionary." She was the girl next door, if the girl next door rocked fishnets and a leather corset

  • 'Frozen' Movie Review | Movie Reviews Site

    Big, bright, often beautiful and essentially an action movie, "Frozen" comes from Walt Disney Animation Studios. While Disney credits the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale "The Snow Queen" as primary inspiration, the movie owes a lot more to Broadway's "Wicked." It's a tale of two sisters  More  

  • 'Black Nativity' Movie Review | Movie Reviews Site

    A Baltimore teenager is sent by his cash-strapped mother to spend the holidays with the boy's estranged grandparents. Their relationship with their daughter is a fraught and weighty affair, which must be righted right around the time 'Black Nativity' gets to the Christmas Eve church service

  • 'Nebraska' Movie Review | Movie Reviews Site

    Some of "Nebraska" feels thin, but Alexander Payne elevates the material with images of serious and paradoxically ordinary beauty. Bruce Dern portrays the man who believes himself to be the lucky winner of a sweepstakes and is determined to travel to Lincoln, Nebraska, to collect the grand prize

  • 'Thor: The Dark World' Movie Review | Movie Reviews Site

    This sequel comes with the same old threats of galaxy annihilation, spiced with fish-out-of-water jokes. My favorite here: Encountering a London flat for the first time in his travels, Chris Hemsworth's Thor comes in the door and hangs his snazzy flying killer hammer from its leather loop on one of the coat hooks

  • 'Ender's Game' Movie Review - Harrison Ford and Asa Butterfield  | Movie Reviews Site

    'Ender's Game' unfolds in a vast zero-gravity battle-simulation arena, on a space station readying for an alien attack. The young teenagers being trained to save the world try to impress the authority figures. Asa Butterfield of is Ender Wiggins, the bullied boy who becomes Earth's ultimate military leader

  • 'Last Vegas' Movie Review - Robert De Niro and Michael Douglas | Movie Reviews Site

    A genial "Hangover" for the AARP set, "Last Vegas" is roughly what you'd expect, but a little better. The four stars are Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline. The setup: Lifelong Flatbush-born pals reunite for the bachelor party of the Douglas character. Old grudges reignite; new high jinks ensue

  • 'About Time' Movie Review - Domhnall Gleeson and Rachel McAdams | Movie Reviews Site

    "About Time" ends up working despite its fantasy element, not because of it. On his 21st birthday, Tim (Domhnall Gleeson) learns from his eccentric father (Bill Nighy) the family secret: The men in this clan are able to time-travel into their pasts, reliving and then restaging key embarrassing moments. It's "Groundhog Day" crossed with "Love Actually"

  • 'Angels Sing' Movie Review - Harry Connick Jr. and Connie Britton | Movie Reviews Site

    Harry Connick Jr. stars as a history professor who's always angling to dodge Christmas with his parents for reasons he's reluctant to tell his son. But his house-hunting throws him in the path of an old man (Willie Nelson) with a McMansion for sale, and he finds himself living on one of those Christmas-crazed streets where house decorations draw fans from far and wide

  • 'The Counselor' Movie Review | Movie Reviews Site

    The Counselor (Michael Fassbender) is a financially challenged Texan who takes a chance involving some cocaine cartel money to dig himself out of a financial hole. He's getting engaged to Laura (Penelope Cruz). He becomes involved with the crazy hair of Reiner (Javier Bardem). Ultimately, things get messy

  • 'All Is Lost' Movie Review | Movie Reviews Site

    Redford isn't precisely stretching his range as an actor here or revealing a new side to us. Rather, he's finding the cleanest, clearest way to express a quiet man's wiles and resources. We don't know who he is, or where he's been, or what he's done. We only know what he's doing in the threatening here and now, one day at a time

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    Tom Schilling plays Niko, a university dropout who hasn't yet told his father that his monthly payments no longer go to the funding of higher education. Schilling is vulnerable but vaguely hostile in this depiction of Lost Youth

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    Linor Abargil's emotional response to being crowned Miss World was more than just a case of tears of joy: Weeks before, she had been raped. 'Brave Miss World' illuminates the ways the attack changed the course of her subject's life

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    '22 Jump Street' tests the bond of this police partnership when the boy-men are assigned to work undercover, again as brothers, this time at a college where a new designer drug has claimed at least one life. Be sure to hang around for the closing credits

  • 'How to Train Your Dragon 2' Movie Review

    In an emotionally resonant key, 'How to Train Your Dragon 2' is as satisfying as the initial 2010 'Dragon.' Now a young adult, adorkable Viking lad Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) and his intended, Astrid (America Ferrera), live the good life

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    Insanely derivative, frenetically enjoyable, "Edge of Tomorrow" takes gaming to a new level of big-screen indulgence, sending Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt through the same alien-invasion scenario over and over until they learn how to win

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    "A Million Ways to Die in the West" is a grim vanity project for, by and about its creator, "Family Guy" guru Seth MacFarlane, determined here to prove himself capable of carrying his own movie in a romantic-comic leading role

  • 'Chinese Puzzle' Movie Review

    There was a time when we felt safe assuming the course of our lives would be predictable: courtship in our teens and 20s; career, marriage and kids by our 30s; settle down by 40. But that's changed. That's the larger subtext of "Chinese Puzzle"

  • 'The Cold Lands' Movie Review

    After the sudden death of his mother, a taciturn boy heads for the hills in 'The Cold Lands.' The kid survives on his own in the woods of upstate New York before befriending a grungy drifter who happily scrapes by off the grid

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  • 'Chef' Movie Review

    After a video of a flaming argument with a sour restaurant critic goes viral, the frustrated high-end LA chef (Jon Favreau) loses his job. Encouraged by his ex-wife (Sofia Vergara), the chef buys a battered old food truck and embarks on a cross-country jaunt

  • 'The Retrieval' Movie Review

    Equal parts suspenseful, persuasively detailed period drama and emotionally resonant coming-of-age story, 'The Retrieval' -- about black freedmen pressed into service by white bounty hunters -- is an outstanding example of filmmaking

  • 'Beneath the Harvest Sky' Movie Review

    Every generation needs its own stir-crazy small-town movie. Set against the hardscrabble backdrop of northern Maine potato country, "Beneath the Harvest Sky" offers a heartbreakingly authentic account of adolescent frustration and yearning

  • 'Decoding Annie Parker'

    "Decoding Annie Parker" tells the tragic story of a Canadian high school graduate who buried her mother and her sister, knew her grandmother died from breast cancer and couldn't get doctors to admit that maybe she inherited the disease

  • 'Brick Mansions'

    'Brick Mansions' is a remake of the French thriller 'District 13.' Director Camille Delamarre drops frames and jump-cuts his way through the fights and chases and parkour stunts of this picture, giving the action a jagged, nervy edge

  • 'The Other Woman'

    'The Other Woman' offers roughly equal parts wit and witlessness, casual smarts and jokes, lingering and detailed, regarding explosive bowel movements. The film stars Cameron Diaz along with Leslie Mann and Kate Upton

  • 'The Railway Man' Movie Review

    'The Railway Man' is about the rehabilitation of a broken man, largely through the persistence and the efforts of his wife, intent on unlocking the anguished riddle before her. Colin Firth is marvelous throughout

  • 'The Unknown Known' Movie Review

    'The Unknown Known' is the work of a masterly filmmaker comfortable in his own groove. The director's technique is so savvy in its visual layering and atmospheric assurance, even a dodgy, cagey camera subject such as Rumsfeld becomes movie-worthy

  • 'Only Lovers Left Alive' Movie Review

    With the YA swoon of "Twilight" safely in the rearview mirror, movie vampires get their mojo back in the sensuous dreamscape of "Only Lovers Left Alive," one of the strongest films yet from Jim Jarmusch

  • It wasn't so long ago that conservative Christians believed Hollywood to be evil and some preachers instructed their congregations not to go to movies lest they be tempted beyond their ability to resist. Now Christians are debating film content. That's progress of a sort

  • 'Oculus' Movie Review

    In the crafty new horror film 'Oculus,' Kaylie (Annalise Basso) and Tim (Garrett Ryan) are beset in their home. Referencing 'The Shining,' "The Stepfather" and a few other standards, 'Oculus' lacks a big finish

  • 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' Movie Review

    Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a better-than-average Marvel superhero bash, intriguingly plotted and pretty clever in its speculations about 21st-century life for Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, the greatest of the Greatest Generation warriors

  • 'Anita' Movie Review

    If the name Anita Hill means anything at all to you, you won't need any encouragement to see a compelling documentary featuring this usually private woman talking with exceptional candor and insight about the events that made her an instant national figure

  • 'Muppets Most Wanted' Movie Review

    High spirits and good times are hard to come by in 'Muppets Most Wanted,' the anxious follow-up to the commercially successful 2011 reboot ('The Muppets') and the seventh Muppet sequel to follow in the animal tracks of 'The Muppet Movie' in 1979

  • 'Nymphomaniac: Volume 1' Movie Review

    The new Lars von Trier lark 'Nymphomaniac: Volume 1' is a weirdly old-fashioned affair. If it weren't for the explicit sexual encounters, this could be an Ibsen or a Strindberg play, unclothed and unmoored from the late 19th or early 20th century

  • 'The Missing Picture' Movie Review

    Cambodian-born filmmaker Rithy Panh relives his own survival of the Khmer Rouge regime in 'The Missing Picture.' Panh blends diorama-like scenes with beautifully interpolated archival and documentary footage

  • Gravity and 12 Years a Slave Dominate 2014 Oscars

    Gravity &12 Years a Slave took top honors at the Academy Awards. The space odyssey Gravity earned seven Oscars, including one for director Alfonso Cuaron. Meanwhile, 12 Years a Slave earned three major awards, including Best Picture

  • 'Non-Stop' Movie Review

    Liam Neeson headlines the entertainingly preposterous thriller 'Non-Stop.' The film confines its action almost entirely to the inside of a trans-Atlantic flight. Federal air marshal Bill Marks (Neeson) is a nervous flier, an alcoholic ex-cop

  • 'Son of God' Movie Review

    Blame Mel Gibson if you like, but no Jesus movie these days is worth its salt without an utterly unflinching treatment of his Crucifixion. But 'Son of God,' a big-screen version of the History Channel series 'The Bible,' has a redemptive optimism about it

  • 'One Chance' Movie Review

    'One Chance' is the inspirational true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night. Paul became an instant YouTube phenomenon after being chosen by Simon Cowell for 'Britain's Got Talent'

  • 'Alone Yet Not Alone' vs Academy's 'Ethics'

    In a world where a 'The Wolf of Wall Street' sets a record for use of the F-word, it is a wonderment that 'Alone Yet Not Alone' has had its Best Original Song Oscar nomination withdrawn for allegedly violating ethical rules

  • 'A Fantastic Fear of Everything' Movie Review

    Geliophobia -- the fear of laughter -- is one of the few not held by Simon Pegg's nerve-addled protagonist in "A Fantastic Fear of Everything," but it does afflict this stunningly joke-free comedy-horror hybrid

  • 'At Middleton' Movie Review

    Vera Farmiga and Andy Garcia know what they're doing as they guide 'At Middleton', this brief encounter of a romance. Their characters, Edith and George, meet in the parking lot of Middleton College, where they've come with their respective offspring for a tour

  • 'That Awkward Moment' Movie Review

    Zac Efron plays a graphic designer whose life is one long hookup interrupted by beers, shots, trash-talk and Xbox with guy friends. This lady-killer, meant to be fetchingly blase on the surface and a fine fellow underneath, comes off like such a pluperfect egotist

  • 'Labor Day' Movie Review

    In 'Labor Day', Kate Winslet has such sound and reliable dramatic instincts she very nearly makes something of Adele. Josh Brolin lets his mellow voice do the heavy lifting as tight-lipped Frank, a hunky amalgam of Shane and a drifter out of an William Inge play

  • 'Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit' Movie Review

    'Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit' is a Jack Ryan prequel, introducing our hero portrayed by Chris Pine as an American grad student at the London School of Economics, driven to serve as a Marine once 9/11 changes the course of modern history

  • 'Ride Along' Movie Review

    "Ride Along" pairs Ice Cube, in the role of a snarling detective on the trail of an arms dealer, and Kevin Hart, as the detective's prospective brother-in-law, a security guard with aspirations to join the force

  • 'Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones' Movie Review

    'Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones' picks up with new characters: teenagers who stumble onto an unsettling mystery when a reclusive woman dies. What comes next remains to be seen, but 'Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones' feels like a fresh start

  • 'August: Osage County' Movie Review

    There are things to enjoy in 'August: Osage County,' mainly around the edges. But there's a serious case of miscasting. The miscasting, rather, is all about director John Wells, a competent but style-free veteran of TV's 'ER' and the film 'The Company Men'

  • 'The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box' Movie Review

    'The Misadventurer' is more like it: Taken from one of a trilogy of young-adult adventure novels by G.P. Taylor, 'The Adventurer' grinds through generic elements of apocalyptic fantasy familiar to fans of Indiana Jones, Percy Jackson and a million other guys

  • 'The Invisible Woman' Movie Review

    Charles Dickens' unfinished work, 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood,' has now been adapted into an absorbing film, 'The Invisible Woman.' Director Ralph Fiennes has given us a speculation that works as drama. It's an elegant bit of goods

  • 'Gimme Shelter' Movie Review

    It's hard not to be affected by a story about a pregnant, homeless teenager such as the one at the heart of 'Gimme Shelter.' But some movies, full of good intentions and cliches undermining those intentions, make it very hard indeed

  • 'The Broken Circle Breakdown' Movie Review

    'The Broken Circle Breakdown,' Belgium's submission for the foreign language Oscar, gets the music right and has the benefit of strong acting, but its unapologetically melodramatic plot has a tendency to throw everything at you

  • 'The Nut Job' Movie Review

    'The Nut Job' fights its protagonist's own charmlessness from the start. Turning a dislikable character a little less dislikable by the end credits sets an awfully low bar for this sort of thing. Kids deserve better. Even squirrels deserve better

  • 'Big Bad Wolves' Movie Review

    We'll be hard pressed to find a movie as disturbing as the darkly comic Israeli thriller 'Big Bad Wolves.' It's about the torture of an accused child molester-serial killer. The torturers are sure they have their guy. The accused keeps protesting his innocence

  • 'Lone Survivor' Movie Review

    'Lone Survivor' is gripping stuff, free of polemics, nerve-wracking in the extreme. Mark Wahlberg plays Luttrell. His fellow SEALs are portrayed by Taylor Kitsch, Ben Foster and Emile Hirsch, with Eric Bana as their commander monitoring what becomes a terrible ambush

  • 'Aftermath' Movie Review

    'Aftermath' is a bombshell disguised as a thriller. Its devastating story involves the Holocaust, yet not a single Jewish character appears on screen. Instead there are only Poles, grappling to different degrees with a history that is as difficult as it is complex

  • 'The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza) ' Movie Review

    Toni Servillo's latest role is that of an impeccably dressed, impossibly jaded journalist, Rome's answer to Tom Wolfe, in The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza). It's more a style show than a deep philosophical treatise, but I'll take style over substance

  • 'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom' Movie Review  | Movie Reviews Site

    It is the work of British actors Idris Elba and Naomie Harris that elevates our involvement in this authorized film version of Nelson Mandela's autobiography. That, the astonishing course of Mandela's life, and the remarkable psychological journey that went along with it

  • 'Grudge Match' Movie Review  | Movie Reviews Site

    Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone square off as aged boxers brought back by desperation. 'Grudge' borrows a few plot points from Stallone's 'Rocky Balboa', with a viral video of the guys mixing it up at the video game recording studio putting them back in the news

  • 'American Hustle' Movie Review  | Movie Reviews Site

    Christian Bale plays con man Irving Rosenfeld, and Jennifer Lawrence is formidably, unpredictably volatile as Rosenfeld's wife in David O. Russell's 'American Hustle.' The spacious ensemble comedy makes 'American Hustle' one of the year's slyest entertainments

  • 'Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues' Movie Review  | Movie Reviews Site

    In 'Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues,' Will Ferrell seems to be playing around with variations on the unctuous, clueless, preening Burgundy persona. The time is 1980 or thereabouts. Now and then, 'Anchorman 2' takes a stab at satiric commentary about the current state of cable news

  • 'Inside Llewyn Davis' Movie Review  | Movie Reviews Site

    'Inside Llewyn Davis' takes place in winter 1961. The scene is Greenwich Village. Crashing here and there, on couches uptown and downtown, Llewyn has a guitar, a voice and some talent. As a fond imagining of a distinct locale at a specific cultural time, the film is remarkable

  • 'Go for Sisters' Movie Review | Movie Reviews Site

    Set along the U.S.-Mexico border, 'Go for Sisters' touches on themes involving class, race, power and corruption. The indie stalwart departs from his recent playbook by placing a rather conventional plot, rather than political point-making, firmly in the foreground

  • 'Out of the Furnace' Movie Review | Movie Reviews Site

    Christian Bale and Casey Affleck play brothers trying to adjust to adjust to new versions of their old lives. Affleck's character tries to work off his gambling debts by bare-knuckle boxing in the realm of a vicious New Jersey backwoods gang headed up by Woody Harrelson

  • 'Philomena' Movie Review | Movie Reviews Site

    "Philomena" gains confidence in the strength of its narrative. Credit goes to Judi Dench's performance as Philomena Lee, a retired nurse with quite a story to tell. It is the genius of the actress's work that creates someone who is simultaneously average and extraordinary

  • 'Homefront' Movie Review | Movie Reviews Site

    For a time the picture was being shaped as a Rambo film, to star Stallone. Instead it became a Statham revenge outing, in which he plays a DEA cop who infiltrates a nest of drug dealers, survives a bust gone bad and relocates to bayou country with his preteen daughter

  • 'Delivery Man' Movie Review | Movie Reviews Site

    A meat truck delivery driver (Vince Vaughn) going nowhere in his life learns that as a young man, his rampant sperm donations led to 500-plus women being impregnated. More than a hundred of his offspring are suing the errant sperm bank to learn their father's identity

  • 'Oldboy' Movie Review | Movie Reviews Site

    This American remake of a 2003 Korean revenge drama stars Josh Brolin as the victim of a kidnapping and 20-year imprisonment. Upon his release, he must determine who did this to him, why, and why he's being framed for his wife's murder

  • 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' Movie Review | Movie Reviews Site

    Heroine Katniss Everdeen begins this second "Hunger Games" movie fulfilling a PR tour as penance for her killer -- literally, killer -- popularity. The movie is part treatise on the hardships of unwanted notoriety, part blood sport revisited, the games this time played by an all-star cadre of past winners

  • 'The Christmas Candle' Movie Review | Movie Reviews Site

    Filmed in Gloucestershire, England, 'The Christmas Candle' is the tale of a village -- Gladbury -- that has held onto a tradition that says every 25 years, the local candle-maker produces one batch that holds a magical candle, ensuring that an angel will grant the owner his or her heart's desire

  • 'The Best Man Holiday' Movie Review| Movie Reviews Site

    This sequel follows in the footsteps of director Malcolm D. Lee's successful 1999 comedy 'The Best Man.' 'The Best Man Holiday' is a far more mixture of comedy and tragedy than the easygoing 'Best Man' was. Still, some of the writing is pungently funny

  • 'Charlie Countryman' Movie Review | Movie Reviews Site

    'Charlie Countryman' is a modestly ambitious psychological thriller with a romantic streak. Not a 'safe' star vehicle in the mix. So give Shia LaBeouf some credit. Charlie (LaBeouf) is on hand to watch as his mother (Melissa Leo) is taken off life support. But even after dying, she's not done teaching him

  • 'The Armstrong Lie' Movie Review | Movie Reviews Site

    Documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney initially set out to make a movie called 'The Road Back,' an intimate look at cyclist Lance Armstrong's maybe-triumphant comeback. How could he lose, with a subject like that? But then Armstrong, the subject of various investigations, finally caved under the weight of the 'one big lie' he'd been living

  • 'The Book Thief' Movie Review | Movie Reviews Site

    Adapted from the internationally popular book-club staple by Markus Zusak, 'The Book Thief' tries so hard to warm our hearts amid grotesque suffering, it goes a bit mad under the strain. It relays an uplifting story that, ill-advisedly, is not so much Holocaust-era as Holocaust-adjacent, determined to steer clear of too much discomfort

  • 'Dallas Buyers Club' Movie Review | Movie Reviews Site

    Diagnosed with AIDS and given a one-month death sentence by his doctors, drug-using heterosexual Ron Woodroof scrambled to stay alive and used the next seven years to create an underground pharmaceuticals way-station for others with HIV and AIDS. Matthew McConaughey lost 50 pounds to play Woodroof at his sickliest

  • 'How I Live Now' Movie Review | Movie Reviews Site

    Imagine a Judy Blume rewrite of Cormac McCarthy's "The Road," and you'll end up somewhere in the ashen yet uplifting vicinity of "How I Live Now." Taken from the 2004 young-adult novel by Meg Rosoff, this is a dystopian vision of a near future in the English countryside, with World War III raging just off screen

  • 'Free Birds' Movie Review - Woody Harrelson and Owen Wilson | Movie Reviews Site

    The voice cast includes Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Amy Poehler and George Takei. Wilson voices Reggie, a scrawny turkey who figures out why his flock is being fattened up. The demented Jake (Harrelson) shows up to enlist Reggie in his mission: to travel back in time and change Thanksgiving history to get turkey off the menu

  • 'Diana' Movie Review - Naomi Watts and Naveen Andrews | Movie Reviews Site

    There's a myopia to 'Diana,' the new film about the divorce and last great romance of Princess Diana's life, that fits its subject like one of Diana's custom-tailored gowns. Isolated, focused on her image, her few contacts with the outside world and her work, when this lonely and lovelorn woman (Naomi Watts) zeros in on something or someone

  • 'Man of Tai Chi' Movie Review - Keanu Reeves and Tiger Hu Chen | Movie Reviews Site

    Who knew that what Keanu Reeves really wanted was to play the villain in a Jean-Claude Van Damme picture? And direct it? 'Man of Tai Chi' is a martial arts actioner that has the formulaic plot of a score of other films, many of which starred Van Damme, with Reeves playing the mysterious rich guy who stages private off-the-books brawls matching fighters of various styles

  • '12 Years a Slave' Movie Review - Chiwetel Ejiofor and Alfre Woodard  | Movie Reviews Site

    ased upon the 1853 slave narrative by Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), which takes the freeborn man of color from Saratoga, N.Y., to the swamps and whip cracks of Louisiana. While working as a violinist in Washington D.C., Northup was kidnapped and sold into slavery

  • 'The Fifth Estate' Movie Review - Benedict Cumberbatch and Daniel Bruhl  | Movie Reviews Site

    This tale about the formation of WikiLeaks and its mysterious founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) don't quite achieve the quality of 'The Social Network.' Much of the picture is a clash between new-school hot dog Assange and old-school journalistic types

  • Carrie' Movie Review - Chloe Moretz and Julianne Moore | Movie Reviews Site

    In this remake of the 1976 cult horror classic, Director Kimberly Peirce tactfully repaints the repressed and bullied and telekinetic Carrie (Chloe Grace Moretz) exacts revenge upon her fellow prom-nighters. Julianne Moore seizes the day as Carrie's fundamentalist and demonically cruel mother

  • 'Gravity' Movie Review - Sandra Bullock and George Clooney | Movie Reviews Site

    'Gravity' is a nerve-wracking visual experience of unusual and paradoxical delicacy. It's truly something to see. Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a medical engineer and newbie astronaut. Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) is a veteran space walker. They, along with their colleagues, are wrapping up a mission when disaster strikes

  • 'Parkland' Movie Review - Billy Bob Thornton and Paul Giamatti | Movie Reviews Site

    We may never know who really was involved in the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. But the opposite poles of the existing theories stand in clear disagreement. No politics or controversy here. Rubberneckers looking for an anti-conspiracy theory will be frustrated with 'Parkland'

  • Baggage Claim' Movie Review - Paula Patton and Christina Milian  | Movie Reviews Site

    Paula Patton plays Montana, a flight attendant so incensed by her younger sister's engagement that she vows to find a wed-able date to take to that sister's nuptials. Her besties (Adam Brody, Jill Scott, etc.) use their professional connections to hurl Montana in the path of her most promising exes

  • 'The Family' Movie Review - Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer  | Movie Reviews Site

    This violent action comedy stars Robert De Niro as Giovanni Manzoni, who ratted out his mob pals back in Brooklyn and now has a $20 million price on his head. And he's in France. Maggie (Michelle Pfeiffer), the long-suffering wife, moves with him to yet another town where they yet again need to fit in

  • 'Insidious: Chapter 2' Movie Review - Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne  | Movie Reviews Site

    This sequel picks up moments after the first one. Josh Lambert (Patrick Wilson) is a demon-possessed family man. His wife, played by Rose Byrne, returns as his justifiably paranoid spouse, who keeps losing her children. This installment isn't slovenly, but it's a bit of a jumble

  • The Patience Stone' Movie Review - Golshifteh Farahani  | Movie Reviews Site

    The war-scarred village we see in the new film 'The Patience Stone' is in 'Afghanistan or elsewhere.' While an unspecified war grinds on in the background, an unnamed woman, the mother of two girls, watches over her comatose husband in their barely furnished home

  • 'Ain't Them Bodies Saints' Movie Review - Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara  | Movie Reviews Site

    "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" is about a couple of small-town thieves and outlaws in love: Bob, played by Casey Affleck, and Ruth, played by Rooney Mara. Carefully calibrated and not long on words the movie set in the Texas Hill Country tells its story cleanly and well

  • 'Jobs' Movie Review - Ashton Kutcher and Dermot Mulroney  | Movie Reviews Site

    This biopic about Steve Jobs (Ashton Kutcher) is just not very interesting. Kutcher's performance is bland, and the depiction of Jobs is flat. We're shown the origin story, the start in the Jobs family garage, the early, clunky Apple computers in the '70s, paving the way for sleek multizillion-dollar design perfection

  • 'The Butler' Movie Review - Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey  | Movie Reviews Site

    Lee Daniels directs this historical drama in which Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker) served several presidents as a White House staffer during the Civil Rights movement. His wife (Oprah Winfrey) raises their two boys while her husband spends too much time at work. Their oldest son becomes a disciple of Dr. King and then Malcolm X

  • 'The Canyons' Movie Review - Lindsay Lohan and James Deen  | Movie Reviews Site

    Lindsay Lohan (auteur three) stars as a hard-drinking, trashed-out LA denizen currently living the high-low life with a trust fund punk (James Deen, No. 4). The latter has control issues and a penchant for group encounters, as long as he's the one behind the iPhone while the naked bodies are being filmed

  • 'We're the Millers' Movie Review - Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis  | Movie Reviews Site

    David (Jason Sudeikis) is an easygoing Denver marijuana dealer, the envy of all his pathetic married friends. He lives in the same building as Rose (Jennifer Aniston), a stripper. David's big client (Ed Helms), strong-arms him into becoming a drug mule. Not wanting to work alone, he hires Rose and two teenagers

  • 'Lovelace' Movie Review - Amanda Seyfried and Adam Brody  | Movie Reviews Site

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  • Charlie Day and Charlie Hunnam  in 'Pacific Rim'

  • Adam Sandler and Chris Rock  in 'Grown Ups 2'

  • Martina Gedeck and Ulrike Beimpold  in 'The Wall'

  • Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock  in 'The Heat'

  • Jamie Foxx and Channing Tatum  in 'White House Down'

  • Billy Crystal and John Goodman  in 'Monsters University'