Focus Features Rated R for pervasive language including sexual references. Running time: 109 minutes. Three and a half stars out of four. Finally — finally! — the most entertaining movie of the summer arrives, just as August is coming to a close. Actually, “The World’s End” might be the best...
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Jobs
Open Road Films Rated PG-13 for some drug content and brief strong language. Running time: 127 minutes. One and a half stars out of four. The irony in “Jobs,” about the late Apple Computers co-founder Steve Jobs, is not how a man could be so beloved and yet be such...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
“Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” is a devastatingly beautiful film with an absolutely terrible title. It borrows more than a tad from Terrence Malick but also heralds the emergence of a talented filmmaker in David Lowery. My review for RogerEbert.com. Read the review here...
Read moreKick-Ass 2
Universal Pictures Rated R for strong violence, pervasive language, crude and sexual content and brief nudity. Running time: 103 minutes. Two stars out of four. Jim Carrey’s character in “Kick-Ass 2,” an ex-mobster and born-again Christian who’s transformed himself into a vigilante crimefighter named Colonel Stars and Stripes, carries a...
Read moreWe’re the Millers
Warner Bros. Pictures Rated R for crude sexual content, passive language, drug material and brief graphic nudity. Running time: 110 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four. Jennifer Aniston is beautiful and stylish and envied with her trend-setting hair and yoga-toned body and the ability to achieve longevity...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Off Label
My RogerEbert.com review of the documentary “Off Label,” an indictment of Big Pharma that tries to encompass so many people and so many angles in such a short amount of time, it ends up breezing through them and providing glimpses that feel rushed and unsatisfying. Read the review here...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — David Gordon Green
David Gordon Green’s latest film, “Prince Avalanche,” seamlessly blends the two seemingly contradictory artistic instincts within the writer-director: It has the unhurried pace and richly naturalistic aesthetic of his early, indie dramas with the comic banter and oddball characters of his later work. I very much enjoyed talking with him...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — The Canyons
Maybe playing a troubled young woman wasn’t the best way for Lindsay Lohan to escape being a troubled young woman. My review of “The Canyons” for RogerEbert.com. Read the review here...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Europa Report
This quietly suspenseful sci-fi thriller makes extensive and effective use of the whole found-footage conceit. My review for RogerEbert.com. Read the review here...
Read moreThis is the tree …
In MacArthur Park where I interviewed David Gordon Green yesterday. Well, not in it. And we weren’t doing what Seth Rogen and James Franco are doing. But we sat underneath it and had a nice chat about “Pineapple Express,” and his new film “Prince Avalanche,” and the eclectic career he’s...
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