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Much like its “lovable loser” protagonist, Ken Scott’s new film Starbuck has a lot of flaws and bad habits. Sometimes it’s lazy; other times it tries too hard. It has a lot of good ideas, but seldom has the gumption...

In the new documentary A Place At The Table, filmmakers Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush take a long, hard look at the problem of hunger in America – what causes it, who’s affected by it, and what can be done...

Stand Up Guys has a lot of problems, but its biggest is tone deafness. Comedy is dependent on stakes. A good dark comedy knows how to leverage the high stakes that are inherent in sad or creepy subject matter, and...

As I now know from experience, when you tell someone you went to a screening of a movie called John Dies At The End, the first thing they want to know is whether John actually does die at the end....

In The Guilt Trip, Seth Rogen plays Andy Brewster, a chemist-turned-inventor who’s struggling to get his line of organic cleaning products distributed. About to set off a cross-country series of pitch meetings, he drops in for a visit with his...

How fun should an adaptation of Anna Karenina be? At the beginning, it seems like Joe Wright’s gorgeous new version of the classic Russian novel will be the funnest one yet. The plot is propelled almost entirely by incidences of...