Owen Gleiberman

''Pine goes through the motions of saving the Western world with a swaggery concentration that keeps you watching. I just hope that in the next Ryan outing, his charisma will have the added sheen that comes with being at least one step ahead of the audience.''

As he proved in his breakthrough 2011 drama A Separation , the Iranian director Asghar Farhadi has found…

Personalities, classes, and races clash as Madea and her niece Eileen travel to the Southern town of Buck Tussel to spend Christmas with Eileen's daughter

''American Hustle, Russell's brilliant, swirling amphetamine high of a movie about deep-dish chicanery in the late 1970s, makes good on Silver Linings' promise.''

With Inside Llewyn Davis, [The Cohen's] have made a film that is almost spooky in its perversity: a lovingly lived-in, detailed tribute to the folk scene that -- hauntingly -- has shut their hero out.

Frozen is a squarely enchanting fairy tale that shows you how the definition of what's fresh in animation…

''In The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Katniss has become a star, a lightning-rod symbol of the early stirrings of a people's rebellion. But she's still the superwarrior girl next door; she wears her rebel impulses lightly, if not politely.''