The Woman Who Stole "Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation" From Tom Cruise
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View ArticleThis Thriller Is Like An '80s Kids Movie Gone Terribly Wrong
Kevin Bacon in Cop Car Focus World The most familiar face in Cop Car, a minimalist but heart-in-throat effective thriller from director Jon Watts, belongs to Kevin Bacon. Bacon, in a mustache and...
View Article"Fantastic Four" Tries To Do Something Different, But It Doesn't Work
The Thing (Jamie Bell) in Fantastic Four. Twentieth Century Fox The best idea that the new Fantastic Four has in updating Stan Lee's inaugural superhero team is finding the horror in the...
View ArticleMeryl Streep Has Moves, And Parenting Skills, Like Jagger In "Ricki And The...
Rick Springfield and Meryl Streep in Ricki and the Flash. Bob Vergara / Sony Pictures Ricki Randazzo is the kind of person who thrives in the spotlight, who blossoms under it into her brightest, most...
View Article"The Gift" Reinvents An Old-Fashioned Kind Of Fragile Heroine
Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall in The Gift. Matt Kennedy / STX Productions The Gift is a movie about two people who haven't managed to get past what happened in high school.It's a concept that's more...
View Article"Straight Outta Compton" Is Everything That's Wrong And Right With...
Aldis Hodge, Neil Brown Jr., Jason Mitchell, O'Shea Jackson Jr., and Corey Hawkins in Straight Outta Compton. Universal Pictures Vibrant, rambunctious, and as lopsided as a cake taken out of the oven...
View Article22 Wonderful Movies You Probably Missed This Year That You Can Watch Right Now
August is a painfully slow month for movies, so why not catch up on these gems (which are all available to watch right now) that you might have missed this year? 10,000 Km Game of Thrones alum Natalia...
View ArticleJesse Eisenberg And Kristen Stewart Are Still Good Together In "American Ultra"
Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart in American Ultra. Lionsgate When it comes to playing potheads, some actors are naturals. Jesse Eisenberg, for all his talents, is not one of them, as exemplified...
View ArticleChristopher Nolan's New Movie Is About The Best Directors You've Never Heard Of
The Brothers Quay. Robin Holland There are no unconscious heists, brooding superheroes, or journeys through space in the latest Christopher Nolan film. There are just two graying men crouched over a...
View ArticleThe Summer TV Heartthrob No One Saw Coming
It turns out the man behind the most socially anxious, self-medicating loner on television is kind of a people person.Wandering through Chinatown — the neighborhood in which Mr. Robot’s Elliot...
View ArticleOwen Wilson's New Film Turns Southeast Asians Into Horror Movie Monsters
Sterling Jerins, Lake Bell, Claire Geare, and Owen Wilson in No Escape. Roland Neveu / Weinstein Company No Escape isn't a zombie movie, but sometimes it sure feels like one.Take the early sequence...
View ArticleThe Irresistible Broetry Of Zac Efron's EDM Movie
Zac Efron in We Are Your Friends. Tony Rivetti Jr. / Warner Bros. Consider the tears of Zac Efron, how they glisten there on his inhumanly perfect if not supremely expressive face — those blue, blue...
View ArticleSix Secretly Amazing Movies You Can't Miss This September
Lots of great movies never make it to your local multiplex — here are six worth seeking out, and where to find them. About Elly The Cinema Guild It's not inaccurate to describe About Elly as a...
View ArticleThe Summer The Movies Started Treating Women Like People
Mad Max: Fury Road. Jasin Boland / Warner Bros. As blockbuster season winds its way to its melancholy end, here's a roll call of the summer's most notable ladies. We got Bryce Dallas Howard tottering...
View Article32 Movies We're Excited To See At This Year's Toronto Film Festival
Lots of biopics, lots of LGBT visibility, and double helpings of Tom Hardy and Tom Hiddleston — these and more are among the promising highlights of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, which...
View ArticleOptimism Doesn't Look Good On Michael Moore In His Secret New Movie
Michael Moore's Where to Invade Next. Robert D. Ward / Courtesy of TIFF Michael Moore made his latest movie, Where to Invade Next, on the sly, shooting abroad and keeping not just the concept but the...
View ArticleThese New Horror Movies Will Make You Scared Of Your Mom And Grandma
Deanna Dunagan and Olivia DeJonge in The Visit. Universal Pictures Seventy-five-year-old Deanna Dunagan is a scream in The Visit. Like, you will scream. Early on in the movie, her character, referred...
View ArticleThese Two Child Actors Steal The Spotlight From Idris Elba And Brie Larson
Children are placed in situations of heart-in-your-throat horror — in that, they're both tough to watch — in two of fall's most anticipated movies: Cary Fukunaga's Beasts of No Nation and the Emma...
View Article"The Martian" Proves That Science Is Totally Action-Adventure Worthy
Matt Damon in The Martian. Twentieth Century Fox Of all the stanning Hollywood has been doing for NASA in the last few years, from Gravity to Interstellar to Tomorrowland, The Martian is, by many...
View ArticleThere's A Lot Missing From Johnny Depp And Tom Hardy's Gangster Movies
Johnny Depp in Black Mass. Warner Bros. There's no way of knowing for sure how many guys have gotten into the acting business with dreams of playing a gangster, but my gut tells me it's roughly 1,000%...
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