Review: The Boss

The incongruity between Melissa McCarthy’s eagerness as a performer and her character’s total lack of compassion makes The Boss somehow both restless and tedious.

Review: Tammy

The film is an almost plotless doodle, with low stakes made even lower thanks to the antiheroine’s bratty passivity.

Review: Bad Words

The meager comeuppance and hasty notes of sweetness that end the film feel pre-approved rather than organically realized.

Review: Enough Said

Enough can’t be said about how James Gandolfini comes so close to saving Nicole Holofcener’s latest articulation of white suburban anxieties.

Review: The Nines

Ryan Reynolds may not be a demigod, much less a full-fledged deity, but he plays one to sterling effect in The Nines.