April Snellings

Equal parts disaster movie, horror film, and melodrama, the Spanish production The Impossible is a harrowing and incredibly moving account of a family’s attempts to reunite after the 2004 Southeast Asian tsunami separates them.

Django Unchained is undoubtedly indulgent, but man, is it ever fun.

On its surface, this is a film about a film, but the heart of the movie is the relationship between Hitchcock and Alma Reville (Helen Mirren), the filmmaker’s wife and creative collaborator. Though she spent most of her professional life ...

There are no good guys in Killing Them Softly. There’s no honor among thieves, no code of ethics that keeps the film’s seedy underworld from caving in on itself. It’s a world where compassion means shooting someone in the head ...

Here’s a question to ponder: Why are most contemporary romantic comedies so godawful?

Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone and The Town were two of the best crime dramas to come out of America in the past decade—taut, claustrophobic tales of men and women straining at their leashes in the tiny, blue-collar neighborhoods that ...

Irish playwright Martin McDonagh has gone Hollywood with Seven Psychopaths, an ultra-violent (and ultra-funny) deconstruction of the fast-talking, self-knowing crime capers that came into fashion with Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.

Most glossy sci-fi films would pull back before entering the heady, sometimes shockingly dark, and supremely rewarding territory where Looper makes its home. Rather than getting himself caught up in the Catch-22 logistics that bog down so many time-travel stories, ...

Dredd is a gorgeous, grimy, and relentlessly gory spectacle that gets most of the important things right. It has two modes: bombastic, expertly staged action scenes, and closing credits.

If you’re waiting for a glimmer of redemption or even a fleeting moment of grace, you’ll still be waiting when the credits roll—Killer Joe is not that kind of movie.