Well, people kept asking about it, so I finally went and saw Interstellar and found it much better than I had expected.Its science is pretty ridiculous,…

Much as I admire The Theory of Everything, the supposedly true movie of the life of scientific genius Stephen Hawking, I can't quite go along with the two…

It is a hard thing to have to review Part Three of a four-part series without having seen Parts One and Two. There is bound to be a certain unclarity as…

Whiplash is one of the strangest and most gripping movies about showbusiness I've ever seen, in its exclusive concentration on two psychological studies--…

Birdman is a lot of things besides a story, with a variety of elements and genres-- comedy, drama, psychological study, internal action, external action,…

Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler is almost an example of an old-fashioned American ideal.He is certainly starting at the bottom of his chosen field, as…

St. Vincent is a rather quiet little movie made remarkable mostly, but not exclusively, by Bill Murray's performance in a basically non-comic role, as a…

I'm a little embarrassed to be giving such a rave review to a movie about which I have so little to say.But The Book of Life fascinated me so much with…

Kill the Messenger is a pretty good political movie about what happened to a reporter who revealed illicit dealings of the CIA in Los Angeles, especially…

Ben Affleck's new movie, Gone Girl, is two-and-a-half hours long, but has plot enough for two-and-a-half miniseries. And wonder of Hollywood wonders, it…