Short of heading to the Himalayas and climbing the world’s highest mountain yourself, seeing Everest in 3D IMAX is the next best thing, a dizzying visual adventure that will knock the wind out of you. As personal drama, not so much. Working from a script by survival experts William Nicholson (Unbroken)… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Ice-cold. Dead eyes. Demonic laugh. His face a mask you can’t read until he’s up in yours. Then run. That’s Johnny Depp giving everything he’s got in a riveting, rattlesnake performance as South Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger in Black Mass. The FBI finally grabbed this Osama bin Laden of… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Biopics are a dime a dozen, but Tobey Maguire gives such a transfixing, transformative performance as chess master Bobby Fischer in Pawn Sacrifice that you’re hooked. Working from a script by Steven Knight, director Edward Zwick lays the groundwork for Fischer’s obsessions and tirades — hatred of Russians, anti-Semitism (though he… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Everyone involved in this small miracle of cinema is on the high wire. Richard Gere, deprived of his movie-star looks, plays a homeless man adrift in New York. Oren Moverman, the gifted Israeli-American writer-director of The Messenger and Rampart, deprives himself of the tearjerking backstory that keeps butts in seats…. Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Someone has called this comic raunchfest “When Harry Met Sally with assholes.” Since that someone is the film’s writer-director, Leslye Headland, she’s allowed. But she’s also selling herself short. Sleeping With Other People hits the sweet spot between hot and hilarious because its lovers spit at romcom clichés. Maybe not… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Well, it’s not in the same league as The Sixth Sense, but director M. Night Shyamalan ends a long dry spell with The Visit. It’s a blend of mirth and malice that combines Grimm fairy tales with the found-footage gimmick of Paranormal Activity. A mom (Kathryn Hahn) sends her two… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Stay alert if you’re a white guy from Texas (Owen Wilson) who’s just taken a job in a conveniently unnamed country in Southeast Asia (the film was shot in Thailand, which should sue). It’s tough shit for this dude that the locals, pissed-off at a U.S. imperialist grab at their… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Finding a visual equivalent for EDM (Electronic Dance Music) is a wickedly seductive temptation — not to mention building an emotional narrative around it. So first-time feature director Max Joseph, of MTV’s Catfish reality series, earns points for trying to give our eyes and ears a soulful workout in We… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

It’s the end of the world. (Nuclear Armageddon did the trick.) No zombies — just three people left alive. Z for Zachariah, adapted quite freely and lyrically by director Craig Zobel and screenwriter Nissar Modi from a 1974 sci-fi thriller by children’s-book writer Robert C. O’Brien, is hunting something deeper… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

The problem about reviewing this mindless mindblower is spoiling the surprise by giving shit away. So I will tread carefully. American Ultra opens nice and easy, with stars Jesse Eisenberg and Kristin Stewart, reteaming after 2009’s Adventureland, dishing out a winning slacker romance. Then, boom, the movie is taken over… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]