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REVIEW: 21 Jump Street
Recently, I watched “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” the 1982 comedy still considered to be one of the best high school movies ever made, for the first time. It has obviously become incredibly dated...
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REVIEW: Now You See Me
No one would ever mistake Louis Letterier’s “Now You See Me” for Christopher Nolan’s “The Prestige,” that’s for certain. But if not living up to the Nolan standard was a crime punishable by death in...
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REVIEW: Neighbors
If you’re Zac Efron, how do you get people to take you seriously as an actor? See you as something more than a Disney Channel star without feeling yourself with a foam finger half-naked on television?...
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REVIEW: Now You See Me 2
Can two rabbits come out of the same metaphorical hat? Or two tricks from the same sleeve? Jon M. Chu’s “Now You See Me 2” does not really attempt such a feat. Rather than make a straightforward sequel...
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REVIEW: The Little Hours
Sundance Film Festival Raunchy comedies set in a distant past always run the risk of relying too heavily on anachronistic humor. (Cough, “A Million Ways to Die in the West.”) The humor that arises from...
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REVIEW: Nerve
Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman’s “Nerve” instantly makes us aware that, for today’s high schoolers, life is not lived alongside a screen so much as it is lived inside one. Devices are not an...
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