Bill Murray delivers a surprisingly subtle and nuanced performance as America's 32nd President in "Hyde Park on Hudson." Murray and the other actors mesh well as an ensemble cast in this story of Franklin D. Roosevelt's life in the spring of 1939, focusing on his relationship with [..]

"Hitchcock" proves to be a witty and entertaining movie about the goings-on behind the scenes of Alfred Hitchcock's film "Psycho." Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren have fantastic chemistry as the famed movie maker and his wife Alma Reville. The screenplay is a more than adequate adaptation [..]

The real life drama of Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 expedition across 4,300 miles of open sea is depicted in "Kon-Tiki." The film reenacted his voyage that tested his theory that people from the pre-Columbian era in South America settled the Polynesian Islands by following currents that flowed west [..]

"This Means War" was billed as a romantic-comedy-spy movie, and, in fact, is neither romantic, nor a comedy, and not much of a spy picture. The story is about two CIA agents who are best friends who fall in love with the same woman. Director McG [..]

Tom Cruise stars as a retired Army military police officer who gets involved with investigating crimes with local law enforcement in Pittsburgh., Pennsylvania. "Jack Reacher" is a watchable movie put together by director-screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie ("The Tourist" 2010) that is entertaining and holds the audience's attention throughout [..]

The first of a prequel movie trilogy to "The Lord of the Rings" series is the very watchable "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey." Producer-director-screenwriter Peter Jackson has given us an almost three hour film with good performances, rife in 3D special effects, and more Middle Earth stories [..]

Producer-director-screenwriter Judd Apatow put together an entertaining comedy-drama film called "This is 40." It is a sequel of sorts to his 2007 product "Knocked Up," with this film continuing the story of the characters played by Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann, who had support roles in the [..]

"Silver Linings Playbook" is a dull and mundane romantic comedy from director-screenwriter David O. Russell ("Three Kings" 1999). He adapted the material from the 2008 novel of the same name by Matthew Quick, which is basically art house/chick flick stuff. The actors [..]

Uneven direction, bad casting, and terrible writing plague the period musical film "Les Miserables." Director Tom Hooper ("The King's Speech" (2010) and his screenwriting team based the movie on the stage play of the same name, so the roots of the problems in the film lie with [..]

Ethan Hunt and the IMF team must track down a horrifying new AI weapon that could destroy the world if it falls into the wrong hands. The part they need to find is half of a fancy key to the weapon, or else, in "Mission: Impossible - [..]