Film Reviews
Summary: Joe Morgenstern shares his thoughts on current films
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Charm has curdled into smarm in the big-screen version of Entourage.
Can we fix our troubled world, or not?
George Miller, whose Mad Max gave the movie medium a new genre almost four decades ago, is back with Mad Max: Fury Road.
Unfriended is a micro-budget horror film played out entirely one high school girl's laptop.
Alex Garland's Ex Machina is an elegant sci-fi fantasy about artificial intelligence.
Cute dogs doing cute tricks have become stars of the social networks, but White God offers a different take on man's best friend.
Call it bias if you choose, but any Cinderella with Cate Blanchett as the wicked stepmother couldn't be bad.
In its advocacy of skeptical thinking, An Honest Liar dovetails neatly, if accidentally, with Merchants of Doubt.
Queen and Country, the sequel to Hope and Glory that took John Boorman almost three decades to make, is worth the wait.
Marketing campaigns can bring movie goers into theaters to see what the fuss is all about, but they can't generate the excitement of those rare occasions when audiences discover a movie on their own. A charming curiosity from New Zealand. One more riff on mythical bloodsuckers.
Reasonable minds may differ on what the playroom is all about in 50 Shades of Grey.
In a momentous conjunction of events, Jupiter Ascending -- the mega-budget sci-fi extravaganza -- is opening around the nation and the world on the very day that Jupiter, the mega-planet, is at its annual opposition to Earth.
Timbuktu takes a deadly aim at Islamic fundamentalism by playing its own game of deft ridicule.
The opening of Red Army is good news if you're a hockey fan, a history buff or just an admirer of first-rate documentaries.
Paddington is the comic chronicle of a Peruvian bear's adventures in London, and it turns out to be a total charmer...