Men in Black 3Perhaps the best that can be said for the years-in-the-works "Men in Black 3" is that its prolonged, difficult development rarely leaves visible scars on the finished product.5/21/2012 9:00pm PT
The Highest PassBeautiful landscapes, crisply professional photography and a goofily offhand approach to Eastern spirituality combine to odd if amiable effect in documentary "The Highest Pass." 5/1/2012 5:04pm PT
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival: Day Three Three-day fest was as admirably organized and as well structured as a multi-course meal, but on Sunday night, the lineup that threw all nutritional balance out the window, serving up one dessert course after another.4/16/2012 1:14pm PT
ChimpanzeeVisually stunning, almost impossibly intimate results is welded to a creakily executed story and narrated by a schticky, frequently bellowing Tim Allen.4/15/2012 7:00pm PT
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival: Day TwoAn unusually low-key main stage succession helped point the way to greater excitement on the satellite stages.4/15/2012 11:31am PT
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival: Day OneReview of first day of the 2012 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival .4/14/2012 12:32pm PT
Wrath of the TitansWhile posing no threat to "The Hunger Games," "Wrath" should carve a healthy swath through its lesser B.O. competitors.3/28/2012 12:01am PT
Musical Chairs"Musical Chairs" has all the trappings of a standard dance-kid pic -- the socioeconomically mismatched partners, the impending tournament, the preening rival dancer -- but introduces two key twists: One of the dancers is confined to a wheelchair, and there's surprisingly little dancing involved.3/21/2012 6:52pm PT
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance" reps a marginal improvement on the series' first installment and contains enough idiosyncrasies to launch it ahead of the moribund "Season of the Witch."2/17/2012 6:49pm PT
About the Pink SkySlowly paced, scoreless and shot in shallow, washed-out black-and-white, this film seems to take pride in refusing to engage the attention of its audience.2/13/2012 4:25pm PT
Michael Jackson: The Immortal World TourThe show is huge, bold, and studded with great moments, but it manages to dazzle the eyes while leaving the heart largely unscathed. 1/29/2012 2:11pm PT
One for the MoneyTedious and tonally inept, this Katherine Heigl starrer looks to be a nonstarter at the B.O.1/27/2012 2:47pm PT
Father's ChairThe old fortune-cookie wisdom about the journey being more important than the destination is emphatically underscored by Brazilian Sundance entry "Father's Chair."1/24/2012 5:28pm PT
Dirty Old Town"Dirty Old Town" is an affectionate, if scattered and overstuffed, love letter to holdouts from the pre-gentrification era of Manhattan's Lower East Side, when the area was a hotbed for artists and colorful lowlifes.12/20/2011 7:05pm PT
ExpectingA strong male lead and a keen sense for making the most out of a single location help make "Expecting" worth more than cursory a view.12/6/2011 6:59pm PT
New Year's EveThe film is pushed to punishing lengths by the engorged cast list, which prevents any individual plot from deepening beyond single-sentence character descriptions and dilemmas.12/6/2011 3:00pm PT
The ZoneThe latest in a blitz of 2011 releases from mumblecore auteur Joe Swanberg, "The Zone" contains little to entice neophytes into his fold.11/15/2011 7:09pm PT
Jack and JillWhen it was first announced, Adam Sandler's gender-bending twin comedy "Jack and Jill" seemed something like an advanced act of Internet trolling, and the actual film certainly lives down to expectations. Yet the pic's general stupidity, careless direction and reliance on a single-joke premise that was never really funny to begin with are only the most obvious of its problems. The previous two pics produced this year by Sandler's Happy Madison shingle, "Just Go With It" and "Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star," grossed $103 million and $2.5 million, respectively; "Jack and Jill" should fall somewhere between the two.11/10/2011 2:40pm PT
CoffinThough its premise and title make no secret of "Coffin's" indebtedness to last year's "Buried," this barrel-bottom suspenser more closely resembles an unsuccessful "Law & Order" spec script, inflated to feature length by some stock horror tropes. The film's clearly limited means are no excuse for the way it applies such painfully languid energy to a real-time ticking-clock thriller, and its only chances for marginal attention will rely on the high billing given to supporting players Kevin Sorbo and Bruce Davison.10/27/2011 3:23pm PT
Kevin Hart: Laugh at My PainComedian Kevin Hart's hybrid standup film "Laugh at My Pain" is at its best when it takes that title to heart.10/5/2011 3:45pm PT
AbductionTaylor Lautner's first starring vehicle is a haggardly slapdash "Bourne Identity" knockoff that never rises above the level of basic competence.9/22/2011 12:00pm PT
Dolphin TaleThough garnished with some heavy dollops of cheese, "Dolphin Tale" is a surprisingly solid, earnest family pic, based very loosely on the story of Winter, the first dolphin to be successfully fitted with a prosthetic tail.9/18/2011 3:39pm PT
Straw DogsThough competently crafted, Rod Lurie's wholly unnecessary 2011 remake is a film with few notions of its own.9/13/2011 6:00am PT
Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star"Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star" is one of the most astonishingly unfunny films of this or any other year. 9/10/2011 8:11am PT
Seven Days in UtopiaPic, based on a bestselling novel by David L. Cook (one of four screenwriters credited), should go over well with the book's fans and church groups, which could well represent a decent-sized homevid audience.8/29/2011 6:44pm PT
Taylor Swift An increasingly interesting young adult performer still tethered to the teen-pop machinery, Taylor Swift played to her base for the first of four sold-out engagements at Staples Center last night in support of monster seller "Speak Now," delivering a supreme spectacle that could well mark a turning point in her career.8/24/2011 12:38pm PT
Rock the BellsGuerilla Union's annual Rock the Bells festival displayed impeccable booking instincts at the San Manuel on Saturday8/21/2011 3:55pm PT
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4DBoasting a new cast and a new theatrical gimmick, if little else, "Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D" is a cheap-looking, vaguely depressing echo of Robert Rodriguez's well-loved kidpic trilogy, assembled with minimal imagination or effort.8/19/2011 11:06am PT
Electric Daisy Carnival ExperienceEven though it's thoroughly enjoyable, skillfully made and often thrilling, "Electric Daisy Carnival Experience" is ultimately undercut by its unwillingness to confront the volatile dramas lurking just beneath its subject's candy-colored exterior.8/9/2011 9:02pm PT
Sawdust CityCentered around a highly charged yet rarely articulated rivalry between two adult brothers on an endless Thanksgiving pub crawl, this film seems unlikely to advance beyond festivals.7/4/2011 1:47pm PT
Salaam DunkThe jokey title is just about the only thing that's questionable about David Fine's "Salaam Dunk," which offers a sweet, insightful glance at young Iraqi life from the unusual focal point of a women's college basketball team.6/29/2011 4:36pm PT
L!fe HappensThough there's no way it could have been cobbled together in time to piggyback on the success of "Bridesmaids," Kat Coiro's "L!fe Happens" can't help but play like a poorer cousin to the recent Apatow factory hit.6/20/2011 6:53pm PT
The Lion of JudahA poorly animated, anthropomorphic animal-slapstick farce that just happens to take place during the crucifixion of Christ. 6/2/2011 3:45pm PT
Arabia 3DGreg MacGillivray's documentary is a unique, immersive experience and the first giantscreen film ever to be shot in Saudi Arabia.5/30/2011 5:48pm PT
The Hangover Part IILittle more than a faded copy of its predecessor superimposed on a more brightly colored background.5/23/2011 12:00am PT
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides"Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" revives the fun, feather-light frivolity that any film based on a Disneyland ride ought to exhibit.5/12/2011 6:55am PT
The Big BangAntonio Banderas-starrer "The Big Bang" is a borderline unintelligible, scattershot attempt at Lynchian neo-noir that takes intellectual and aesthetic risks it has no reasonable hope of pulling off.5/10/2011 5:06pm PT
Paul SimonIt's typically the curse of the aging rock star that no matter how much he contemporizes, the music of his middle and old age never sounds as vital as the work of his youth. 4/21/2011 2:18pm PT
African CatsAstounding wildlife footage is given a kid-friendly narrative hook, but never overly cuddlified, in Keith Scholey's "African Cats," the third installment in the Mouse House's Disneynature series. 4/18/2011 2:35pm PT
The Best and the BrightestOffering a fitfully funny sitcom plot clumsily stretched to 90 minutes, then goosed with increasingly tiresome doses of smuttiness and political incorrectness, "The Best and the Brightest" is neither.4/13/2011 6:25am PT
KumareNeither fish nor fowl, documentary yoga satire "Kumare" raises a host of questions it can't answer. 4/5/2011 4:10pm PT
Where Soldiers Come FromA heartbreakingly lived-in portrait of three Afghanistan-bound soldiers from the same tiny Michigan town.4/4/2011 9:20pm PT
DetentionA relentlessly manic high-school horror-comedy that will leave most viewers winded after the first reel.4/1/2011 12:35am PT
LBFA perplexing slice-of-life that should serve as a calling card for its talented if wildly intemperate director, Alex Munt.3/29/2011 11:54pm PT
Foo Fighters: Back and ForthAs a fan-friendly valentine to an enduringly popular group it should nonetheless play well to the faithful.3/28/2011 10:55pm PT
The Other F WordA raucous, eye-opening, sad and unexpectedly wise look at veteran punk rockers as they adapt to the challenges of fatherhood.3/24/2011 9:08pm PT
The BeaverMel Gibson delivers a performance very few could pull off in a film that can't navigate its seismic tonal shifts.3/16/2011 11:05pm PT
Charlie CasanovaA film about an intolerable man who does intolerable things to while pontificating for intolerably long periods.3/15/2011 6:16pm PT
Kill ListAn artful, sensitively acted thriller several cuts above its midbudget horror brethren.3/15/2011 1:44pm PT
Source CodeSolid execution and provocative ideas can't save Duncan Jones' "Moon" follow-up from a fatal hubris.3/11/2011 7:00pm PT