Reviews

Deep Focus: The End of the Tour

By Michael Sragow

July 31, 2015

David Foster Wallace's bromantic intellectual journey with a journalist yields a finely tuned literary road movie

Deep Focus: Southpaw

By Michael Sragow

July 23, 2015

Rigged: Antoine Fuqua’s boxing picture could have had a contender in Jake Gyllenhaal, but its routine melodrama is locked into place

Film of the Week: Horse Money

By Jonathan Romney

July 16, 2015

Night shifts: the third entry in Pedro Costa's Fontainhas series sends his characters into the darkness amidst memories of colonialism, revolution, and bureaucracy

Deep Focus: Mr. Holmes

By Michael Sragow

July 16, 2015

Mystery man: Ian McKellen plays Arthur Conan Doyle's famed detective, searching for answers of a different sort

Review: Trainwreck

By Violet Lucca

July 15, 2015

She's not so unusual: Amy Schumer's character in her feature debut is her own worst enemy, but can the same be said of the movie?

Review: Self/less

By Jackson Arn

July 10, 2015

The remake fantasy: Tarsem Singh transplants John Frankenheimer’s Seconds to the present day, but does this new model have a conscience?

Film of the Week: Tangerine

By Jonathan Romney

July 10, 2015

Streetwise: Sean Baker’s day-in-the-life look at two transgender prostitutes in Los Angeles taps into the headlong energy of its characters

Deep Focus: Minions

By Michael Sragow

July 9, 2015

Strength in numbers: the backstory of Kevin, Stuart, Bob, and their fellow banana-loving hordes yields comedy gold (or yellow)

Film of the Week: Amy

By Jonathan Romney

July 1, 2015

Witnesses to the persecution: Asif Kapadia's wrenching found-footage chronicle of Amy Winehouse's rise and fall inventories the gawkers and vultures around her

Deep Focus: Terminator Genisys

By Michael Sragow

July 1, 2015

It's a bug not a feature: the latest installment of the Terminator series repeats the main programming error of the franchise