Who doesn’t like to cozy up to an old-school spy thriller that knows how to build tension and tighten it? Bridge of Spies may be a snooze to the ADD crowd allergic to historical drama, but it’s dished out by experts. That’s director Steven Spielberg and star Tom Hanks, working… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

We’ve been choking on Peter Pans lately — Allison Williams crowing in tights on TV, Finding Neverland on Broadway, the high school production you rightfully dread seeing. The nadir, till now, was Steven Spielberg’s 1991 Hook, with Robin Williams as the grown-up Peter longing for his golden youth and a… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

If you’re going to interpret on film the searching mind of an indisputable genius, it helps not to make too many dumbass moves. On that basis, score a triumph for Steve Jobs, written, directed and acted to perfection, and so fresh and startling in conception and execution that it leaves… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Expect the worst from the first half of The Walk. That’s the part before high-wire artist Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) hits New York in 1974 and strings up a wire between the World Trade Center towers. Director and co-writer Robert Zemeckis kills time with curdled whimsy as Gordon-Levitt, speaking in… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

I cringe whenever a movie starts by putting the audience on notice: It’s either “based on a true story” or “inspired by a true story” or, my favorite, “based on actual events.” The warning always makes me think that somebody’s lying or spraying the facts with Hollywood sweeteners. Freeheld has… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

You won’t find a space epic that’s more fun to geek out at than The Martian. Director Ridley Scott rediscovers the light touch he’s been missing in recent misfires such as Prometheus, The Counselor and Exodus: Gods and Kings. Scott’s film version of the bestselling debut novel by space nerd Andy… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

It’s not much of a movie. But raging bull Robert De Niro, suited up to play for humor and heart, proves he can be a world-class charmer. He plays Ben Whittaker, 70, a retired widower hired as an intern for a Brooklyn e-commerce fashion house run by Jules Ostin (Anne… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

I’ve been raving about this spellbinder since I saw it at Sundance. I’ll rave again, now that it’s hitting theaters and VOD. Gambling tales are a hard sell. But this one is on a lucky streak. Writer-directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck take their cue from Robert Altman’s iconic California Split… Source: Rolling […]

Before it goes off the rails in the final stretch, 99 Homes is a riveting rabble-rouser that thinks it can make a difference. In these days when Hollywood typically dulls our wits, Ramin Bahrani’s 99 Homes has a fire in its belly. It’s spoiling to be heard. Michael Shannon explodes onscreen… Source: Rolling […]

In Spanish, “sicario” means “hitman.” In film terms, Sicario is sensational, the most gripping and tension-packed spin through America’s covert War on Drugs since Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic 15 years ago. French-Canadian director Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Incendies), working from a dense, devastating script by Sons of Anarchy actor Taylor Sheridan, is… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]