Movie Review: Promised Land Is a Fracking Movie Scared of Its Own Politics
Movies like this sometimes make our critic ashamed to be a liberal.
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Movie Review: On the Road Is a Rambling, Beautiful Museum Piece
How to be faithful to a revolutionary work of the fifties without turning it into a musty period piece?
Edelstein: Jack Reacher Already Feels Like It Belongs to Another Era
It’s painful to see author Lee Childs’s ex-military vigilante embodied by the diminutive Tom Cruise.
Edelstein: David Chase’s Not Fade Away Is a Dream of the Sixties
A semi-autobiographical debut film from the creator of The Sopranos.
Ebiri on The Impossible: The Calculated Tale of a Fateful Trip
Naomi Watts stars as the matriarch of a family torn apart by the 2004 tsunami.
Edelstein: Django Unchained Is Manna for Mayhem Mavens
Every bullet generates a whoopee-cushion’s worth of red sauce.
Edelstein: Haneke’s Amour Stares Coldly Into the Face of Human Agony
The German provocateur has discovered a real-world antagonist even more brutal than he is: time.
Movie Review: Save the Date Is a Horror Rom-Com
Alison Brie and Lizzy Caplan are sisters in this alternately sweet and brutally real look at dating.
Edelstein on The Hobbit and Its Distracting Frame Rate
"The Hobbit probably plays better at the normal frame rate, but how much better?"
Edelstein: Zero Dark Thirty Is Borderline Fascistic ... and a Masterpiece
Let your liberal morals and cinematic appreciation fight it out.
Edelstein: You’ve Got to Admire the Gumption of Les Misérables
The film's tasteless bombardment would, under most circumstances, send audiences screaming from the theater, but the film is going to be a monster hit and award winner, and not entirely unjustly.
Movie Review: Hyde Park on Hudson — Does This Movie Even Care?
If you squint really hard, you could even imagine it as a sequel of sorts to The King’s Speech.
Movie Review: The Collection Makes the Saw Films Seem Like Exercises in Restraint
The Collection isn’t so much a movie as it is a grab-bag of gruesome ideas, shorn of purpose.
Movie Review: Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning Should Be Terrible. It’s So Not.
If more action movies were like Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, the world would probably be a better place.
Edelstein on Killing Them Softly: A Seventies Thriller Trapped in a Bailout-Era Body
Brad Pitt teams up again with the director of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
Edelstein: Rust and Bone, Brutal and Romantic
The much-discussed drama with Marion Cotillard as the trainer whose legs are eaten by a whale is messy and redemptive.
Movie Review: Rise of the Guardians Matches Childhood Wonder With Dazzling High-Tech Eye Candy
This animated film is both hip and gooey enough to make us look forward to the inevitable sequel.
Movie Review: Red Dawn, Red Yawn, Red Dumb
John Milius’s original looks like an Akira Kurosawa masterpiece next to this latest iteration.
Edelstein: The Gorgeous Life of Pi Is Transcendent
You'll walk out of Ang Lee's latest fervently believing in the magic of movies.
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