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That Awkward Moment exudes an "old school" romantic comedy vibe. (Since it borrows from Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, the "old" really applies here.) The script has an '80s/'90s sensibility wrapped in a layer of lewd, crude, rude packaging. S...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-01-31
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Tom Gormican
Cast: Zac Efron, Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, ...
[Note: In 2014, as in 2012 and 2013, this article will be published over a span of several days, with the reveal of two or three new titles every day during the December 25-30 period. It's done that way to generate some suspense and keep the website ...
James Marsh's The Theory of Everything is an unremarkable bio-pic about a remarkable man. Its ordinariness is in large part compensated for by an extraordinary performance from lead actor Eddy Redmayne. Those looking for a chronology of the life of...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-11-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Adult Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: James Marsh
Cast: Eddy Redmayne, Felicity Jones, David Thewlis
This Is Where I Leave You is a card-carrying member of the "family reunion" category of motion pictures wherein circumstances bring together characters whose once-close relationships have grown distant over the years. The mechanism by which this ha...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-09-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: Shawn Levy
Cast: Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda, ...
To be fair, Transcendence contains its share of "big ideas" - science fiction tropes that have fascinated readers and viewers for decades, ever since the concept of computer sentience became fodder for stories and movies. Unfortunately, it takes mo...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-04-18
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Wally Pfister
Cast: Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, ...
Michael Bay has often said how he loves to "blow things up real good." Well, if that's his desire in life, there's little doubt that he tops himself in Transformers: Age of Extinction. This is as excruciating a movie as is likely to be experienced ...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-06-27
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Painful Dialogue)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/ACTION
Director: Michael Bay
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, ...
Angelina Jolie's sophomore effort as a director is a high-profile adaptation the true-life book Unbroken (written by Laura Hillenbrand, the author of Sea Biscuit). Those unaware that the film is based on historical events might understandably ass...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Angelina Jolie
Cast: Garrett Hedlund, Domhall Gleeson, Jack O'Connell, ...
It has now been close to 13 years since I embarked upon what I called at the time my greatest challenge as a film reviewer: whittling down the nearly 6000 films I had seen (at the time) to the top 2%. I have no idea if I got it "right" or not, but ...
Writer/director Javier Fuentes-Leon’s The Vanished Elephant is a moody, atmospheric neo-noir crime story that starts in traditional territory before taking the viewer on a trippy, mind-bending journey where the reliability of the narrator com...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-06-15
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Javier Fuentes-Leon
Cast: Salvador del Solar, Lucho Caceres, Vanessa Saba, ...
Veronica Mars is a delightful piece of fan service - a supersized TV reunion episode expanded for viewing in movie theaters. Warner Brothers, unsure of the film’s box office potential, has chosen an unusual distribution model. Simultaneous with t...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-03-14
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: Rob Thomas
Cast: Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, Chris Lowell, ...