Characters are frequently urged to "release the beast" in "The Purge," a high-concept home-invasion shocker set in a future where one night a year, all crime is legal. But what...

A social-conscience espionage film that has actually thought about its "eco-terrorism" themes beyond figuring out how to mine them for suspense, "The East" sends a straight-laced...

Come to think of it, Hollywood films and magic shows have something in common: You pay your money, and you want to believe. Even if it's exceedingly hard to do.   At the start of...

If you want to see Greta Gerwig's new film, "Frances Ha," you're going to have to do it the old- fashioned way — by going to the movie theater.   Gerwig said she...

Humanity's home planet hardly merits the name-check in "After Earth," M. Night Shyamalan's sci-fi survival tale whose shipwreck action could (with the exception of a scene where our...

Prolific documentary-maker Alex Gibney delivers a gripping account of the wins and losses of hard-charging idealism on the front lines of the information wars in "We Steal Secrets: The Story of...

She: "Baby, you are gonna miss that plane."   He: "I know."   Does that exchange immediately fill you with a sense of wistfulness? Then you're probably a...

"Daring" isn't a word you would use very much to describe 2011's "The Hangover Part II," the disappointingly lazy, beat-for-beat rehash of the wild and wildly successful...

Ever wonder what it would feel like to suddenly wake up in another universe?   You could find out, perhaps, by joining the next space mission to another galaxy, or, slightly easier, you...

"Star Trek Into Darkness" is like fan-boy fiction on a $185 million budget. It's reverential, it's faithful, it's steeped in "Trek" mythology.   It's also...