Members of the cast play themselves, watching Los Angeles collapse around them and facing doomsday with as much urgency as a stoner can muster. Writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg also penned “Superbad” and “Pineapple Express,” which should give some indication of the idiocy, but also the laughter, audiences can expect. The movie marks the pair’s directorial debut.
The non-linear feature debut for Australian writer-director Kieran Darcy-Smith is about four friends who go on vacation together. But when only three return home to Sydney, the group tries to piece together the events of a drug-fueled night in Cambodia.
In this mind-bending heist movie, a group of illusionists have some stellar and crowd-pleasing tricks up their sleeves. Their shows feature bank robberies, and the audience members enjoy the spoils. One FBI agent (Mark Ruffalo) is determined to find out how they do it.
A star-studded cast brings F. Scott Fitzgerald's great American novel to the big screen in 3-D with a soundtrack that includes Jay-Z and Lana Del Rey. This would sound preposterous if writer-director Baz Luhrmann (“Moulin Rouge,” “Romeo + Juliet”) hadn’t helmed the fireworks display of a movie.
The mysterious French film looks at the relationship between a jaded literature teacher and his pupil, a talented writer who insinuates himself into a classmate’s home and secretly chronicles the family’s day-to-day activities.
Nearly two decades after “Before Sunrise,” writer-director Richard Linklater concludes his trilogy about the on-again relationship between an American man and the French woman he met on a train.
The conclusion to director Christopher Nolan's acclaimed "Dark Knight" cycle features topical themes -- terrorism, haves vs. have-nots -- and not one but two villains: Catwoman (Anne Hathaway) and Bane (Tom Hardy).
"It's wondrous, it's fabulous ... all but unprecedented." -- Stephen Hunter, Style. "We have a movie that appeals to the eye, mind, heart and funny bone." -- Desson Howe, Weekend.
Centuries after humans emigrated from Earth to a new planet, a father and son crash land in mankind’s unruly former home. M. Night Shyamalan directs the real-life father and son pairing of Will and Jaden Smith.
Child actress-turned-filmmaker Sarah Polley turns the camera on her family for this documentary. The non-linear accumulation of story fragments and interviews ultimately releases a skeleton from the Polley family closet.
A former Weather Underground activist, who has been in hiding for 30 years after a violent crime, has to go on the lam after a fellow radical is arrested.
Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, playing their customary characters (the motormouth and the straight man), are dropped into another fish-out-of-water scenario. After the salesmen lose their jobs, they somehow snag internships at Google, despite their lack of tech knowledge.
The Sundance-selected documentary tracks “Blackwater” author and investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill as he travels the globe to research the U.S. government’s “kill list” and uncovers mysteries surrounding the secretive Joint Special Operations Command.
Brit Marling’s star launched at Sundance a couple years ago with a one-two punch of films she wrote and starred in. She teams once again with writer-director Zal Batmanglij for this thriller about an undercover spy embedded among a group of anarchists that wages war on companies that have nefarious aims.
The ride continues, and it may never end, given that Vin Diesel recently announced “Fast and Furious 7” will drop next year. But back to our current reality: The original gang reunites for some engine revving, including one character who looked pretty dead last time we saw her.
Writer-director Noah Baumbach turns awkward situations into watchable entertainment, but his new film adds an element of surprise: Indie darling Greta Gerwig, who also worked with Baumbach on “Greenberg,” co-wrote the script. She also stars in this black-and-white tale of an offbeat protagonist adrift in society.
A star-studded cast brings F. Scott Fitzgerald's great American novel to the big screen in 3-D with a soundtrack that includes Jay-Z and Lana Del Rey. This would sound preposterous if writer-director Baz Luhrmann (“Moulin Rouge,” “Romeo + Juliet”) hadn’t helmed the fireworks display of a movie.
Post critic Ann Hornaday's take: Even when Jim Carrey, Benicio del Toro and Sean Penn were attached, this sounded dreadful. Now, it's Sean Hayes, Chris Diamantopoulos and Will Sasso, and it's still execrable. It doesn't help that the Farrelly Brothers are helming (we're still smarting from "Hall Pass").
It seems like yesterday that Superman was getting a reboot with Brandon Routh as Krypton’s most famous export. But that was seven years ago, which is long enough (in Hollywood years) to warrant another creation story, this time with “The Tudors” star Henry Cavill in the cape.
One night a year, the police let murder and mayhem ensue while turning a blind eye. The one-percenters bolt their doors and turn on their security systems, but the 12-hour period is going to prove especially harrowing for one family when their daughter lets in an outsider.
Two best friends and one oddball interloper decide to escape their stifling parents and live in the woods for the summer in director Jordan Vogt-Roberts’s feel-good feature debut.
For the supposed final installment of lost-and-found, the wolf pack returns to Las Vegas where they bump into old favorites, including Heather Graham’s hooker with a heart of gold and Mr. Chow (Ken Jeong, likely making some kind of full frontal cameo).
The 2009 reboot “Star Trek” was that rare action movie that pleased both filmgoers and critics, not to mention the franchise’s legion of fanatics. JJ Abrams has reassembled almost all of the same players, adding rising star Benedict Cumberbatch to the mix to play the mysterious John Harrison.
The modern and loose adaptation of Henry James’s novel tells the story of a little girl as she witnesses her parents viciously part ways and re-couple with new partners.