This post contains spoilers for The East , Closed Circuit , and The Fifth Estate . Of the three, only one is actually worth the time, so if...

10) The Canyons  Blech. This movie is gross and dumb and not fun at all. Paul Schrader owes Stephen Rodrick a fruit basket for that piece...

10) Computer Chess Period pieces have an unusual burden. They must present a series of values and customs that are antiquated enough to ap...

I was really busy this week and I only wrote four entries instead of the typical five. I'm sure you are all beside yourselves about it. ...

Berberian Sound Studio Since horror is so dependent on culturally recursive imagery, often scaring us with things that we know we...

Friday the 13th has a well-earned reputation as one of the most venerable horror franchises in history, but despite its formidable box-offic...

David Cronenberg films are led by men almost universally, but nearly every one of them features at least one compelling female role as well....

At the peak of his popularity in the mid-2000s, Harry Knowles was making $700,000 a year through his self-proclaimed film nerd sanctuary...

I don't know if you guys have noticed, but 2013 has been pretty good to horror so far! At least to its box office - the quality of this ...

Minor spoilers follow. Elysium, the sophomore effort of South African writer-director Neill Blomkamp, continues a tradition of socially...

Sharknado , SyFy's newest media Hail Mary, premiered on Thursday to squarely average ratings and a deluge of Twitter lurkers despera...

Spring Breakers Try as you might to disassociate yourself from the parts of Spring Breakers that have already entered our cultural consc...

Not meant to be read, as always, as a "worst of" list. (The worst movie of the year is Taken 2. ) 10) Django Unchained  P...

10) The Raid: Redemption Roger Ebert gave this movie  one star on the basis that it is pandering to a built-in "fanboy audience,...

Go Now!   Laurence Anyways (A-) : Enormous, buoyant, effortlessly expressive depiction of lives lived in many different margins...

Spoilers for the last two Twilight movies. As of twenty-four hours ago, I have seen every single movie in the Twilight saga. Offering c...

"Daniel Day-Lewis characteristically delivers in this witty, dignified portrait that immerses the audience in its world and enterta...

Skyfall is a good, solid Bond movie. Not without its problems, if you choose to disregard the predictably hyperbolic BOND IS BACKers: the t...

It is as it says. MAJOR SPOILERS.  1) Cloud Atlas is a crushing 164 minutes long. I have absolutely no problem with long movie...

There Will Be Blood was the first P.T. Anderson film I'd ever seen, way back in 2007, and it knocked me on my ass. I was enraptured...