Capsule reviews for Nov. 1
Big Sur This latest big-screen tribute to Beat Generation poet Jack Kerouac is a meditative…
Todd Jorgenson
The Counselor
Perhaps the expectations are too high for Cormac McCarthy’s first original screenplay, but The Counselor…
Capsule reviews for Oct. 25
Birth of the Living Dead You don’t need to be a fan of zombie movies…
The Fifth Estate
Julian Assange gets scrutinized and even vilified at various points in The Fifth Estate. In…
Escape Plan
Ray Breslin, the hero in the action thriller Escape Plan, might be able to successfully…
12 Years a Slave
Many films dealing with the ugly legacy of slavery in the United States tend to…
All Is Lost
Robert Redford fares well during a solo voyage in All Is Lost. As for his…
Capsule reviews for Oct. 18
Carrie This uneven contemporary remake of the 1976 adaptation of Stephen King’s first published novel…