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Review of The Interview (2014)

By Joe Mcgovern (126) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 17 Dec 2014

It's a pity that the film is bereft of satiric zing, bludgeoning the laughs with a nonstop sledgehammer of bro humor…

Review of Heli (2013)

By Joe Mcgovern (126) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 03 Dec 2014

The film’s nihilism serves as a metaphor for the merciless death pit of Mexico’s drug war, but not much else…

Review of Earth to Echo (2014)

By Joe Mcgovern (126) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 03 Dec 2014

The mildewed found-footage technique allows some tension to build from offscreen action, but also renders the knockoff John Williams score…

Review of Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger (2014)

By Joe Mcgovern (126) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 03 Dec 2014

With minimal conspiratorial bluster, Berlinger unmasks the compliant faces of evil…

Review of Bad Turn Worse (2014)

By Joe Mcgovern (126) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 26 Nov 2014

Directors Zeke and Simon Hawkins add air-quote references to Jim Thompson, Steven Soderbergh, and the Coen brothers but are too proud of the…

Review of National Gallery (2014)

By Joe Mcgovern (126) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 21 Nov 2014

The knowledge that Rembrandt recycled his own paintings doesn't minimize the scene in Frederick Wiseman's documentary where we see an X-ray…

Review of Rosewater (2014)

By Joe Mcgovern (126) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 12 Nov 2014

Rosewater, starring the geeky-charismatic Gael García Bernal as Bahari, is a gripping drama, smartly calibrated for Western audiences who…

Review of Point and Shoot (2014)

By Joe Mcgovern (126) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 06 Nov 2014

His film is an essential, fascinating critique—and product—of our ''look at me'' culture…

Review of Interstellar (2014)

By Joe Mcgovern (126) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 31 Oct 2014

Interstellar, his (Nolan) sci-fi spectaculorama helixed around a father-daughter love story, is a gamble like no other in his career…

Review of Citizenfour (2014)

By Joe Mcgovern (126) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 21 Oct 2014

For all its brio, the film is overcautious about pointing fingers…

Review of Camp X-Ray (2014)

By Joe Mcgovern (126) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 15 Oct 2014

The depiction of Guantánamo Bay as a banal, ugly hole of a place waiting to be condemned makes for a compelling first half hour in this military…

Review of Kill the Messenger (2014)

By Joe Mcgovern (126) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 07 Oct 2014

Director Michael Cuesta (Homeland) includes just enough real news footage among the heavily scripted scenes to make you crave a documentary…

Review of The Boxtrolls (2014)

By Joe Mcgovern (126) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 23 Sep 2014

The script lacks the wit of Wallace & Gromit…

Review of Pride (2014)

By Joe Mcgovern (126) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 23 Sep 2014

Celebrated theater director Mathew Warchus (Matilda, The Norman Conquests) unstiffens many of the script's clichés by affecting a sparkling,…

Review of The Equalizer (2014)

By Joe Mcgovern (126) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 23 Sep 2014

It's the sign of an empty, depressing experience when the only tension is over Bob's choice to use a power drill or a weed whacker for his next kill…

Review of Love Is Strange (2014)

By Joe Mcgovern (126) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 12 Aug 2014

Sachs, Molina, and Lithgow have given adult moviegoers a perfect piece of summer counterprogramming — a warm, humane, resplendent romance…

Review of What If (2013)

By Joe Mcgovern (126) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 06 Aug 2014

An unctuous rom-com that runs its characters through every plastic cliché of a pre-Oscar McConaughey vehicle, ultimately causing us to root…

Review of America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014)

By Joe Mcgovern (126) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 06 Aug 2014

There's no doubt that D'Souza loves America, but he loves it much in the same way that we all do: According to a map of his own design…

Review of And So It Goes (2014)

By Joe Mcgovern (126) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 24 Jul 2014

The Rob Reiner of the past might have tackled a challenging topic, even in a romantic comedy…

Review of The Purge: Anarchy (2014)

By Joe Mcgovern (126) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 18 Jul 2014

When the situation is played totally straight, as it is for eighty percent of the running time, the message is boring: We'd all commit murder,…

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