The Raid: Redemption (2012) ****/*****

Too often action movies fall into the trap of focusing too much on their spectacle. Before…

Project X (2012) **/*****

There have been lots of movies about big parties over the years, but usually they end up being more about the…

Jeff Who Lives at Home (2012) ****/*****

Brothers Jay and Mark Duplass still don’t make mainstream movies. But, with their last…

John Carter (2012) ****/*****

The danger with these sorts of sci-fi/fantasy epics is that often they can get so nerdy and…

Short Round: Crazy Horse (2011) ***/*****

Frederick Wiseman’s latest documentary takes the famous Parisian cabaret club Crazy…

The Hunger Games (2012) ***/*****

The Hunger Games started off as a series of super successful young adult novels written by Suzanne…

Short Round: Casa de mi Padre (2012) ***/*****

Silent House (2012) ***/*****

I would always prefer that a movie fail because it contained too many ideas, rather than fail because it…

21 Jump Street (2012) ****/*****

EDIT: The rating of this review has been bumped up from *** to **** due to the re-watchability of the humor. Everyone here does funny stuff. I should have cut them some slack.

Short Round: Trust (2010) ***/*****

Director David Schwimmer’s Trust is a horrifying look at how living life online has opened our…

Short Round: Goon (2012) ****/*****

Goon is an adaptation of a novel that was written about a real guy who made a career in minor…