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 The Grey
Nationwide - To lay out the basic plot of "The Grey" is to make it sound like an uninspired traipse through familiar territory, an amalgamation of a dozen other movies tossed together. What a synopsis cannot describe is just how skillfully made it is, and how unexpectedly evocative it gradually becomes.Read Full Review »
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 Man on a Ledge
Nationwide - One moment of solitary reflection about "Man on a Ledge" and the whole hamstrung thing crumbles. Still, taken on a scene-to-scene basis, the film is not without its diversions. Coming less than a month into the new year, prospective viewers would do wise to lower their expectations accordingly.Read Full Review »
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 One for the Money
Nationwide - The first film in what Lionsgate and Lakeshore Entertainment would no doubt love to turn into a profitable ongoing series, "One for the Money" clanks with tone-deaf clunkiness, woebegone enough to turn off even fans of the book. No wonder they chose not to screen the finished product in advance for review. "One for the Money" is a surefire example of inept filmmaking, absolutely reeking of rote desperation.Read Full Review »
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 Perfect Sense
Now OnDemand, Select Cities Feb 3 - "Perfect Sense" is an expert study in paranoia, the fleetingness of one's past, and the memories that make us who we are. It all boils down to the connection between emotions and senses, and the fuse that could so easily short-circuit if one of them cut off.Read Full Review »
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 The Artist
Nationwide - In a motion picture bursting with too many pleasures to count, the most miraculous achievement of "The Artist" is its simple, genuine, unabashed earnestness. The film is no less than a gushing ode to cinema itself.Read Full Review »
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 Don't Go in the Woods
OnDemand and Select Cities - Horror and musical lovers unite, have I got a movie for you! As far as low-budget horror goes, "Don't Go in the Woods" is made in grand spirits and with undeniable know-how. It's conventional and truly one-of-a-kind all at once. There's nothing else out there like it.Read Full Review »
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 The Innkeepers
Now OnDemand, Select Cities Feb 3rd - Never slow because it's never boring, but Ti West does enjoy extending the quiet spaces in between the horror for maximum effectiveness. It is a style that works exquisitely for an auteur with his expertise. "The Innkeepers" is a beguiling entertainment as it deals out its grab-bag of soul-searching, good-willed humor, and particularly serious gasps.Read Full Review »
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 Norwegian Wood
Select Cities - Low-key and sweeping, intimate and classically melodramatic, "Norwegian Wood" never deviates from focus on its characters, but places them within a tableau where falling in love and meeting an awful end are on the same mounted—and expected—wavelength.Read Full Review »
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 We Need to Talk About Kevin
Select Cities - Utterly chilling more for its restraint in what it suggests without necessarily showing. "We Need to Talk About Kevin" has a fitting title; once seen, it will be impossible for viewers to hold back on their conversations about it. Tilda Swinton has always been, and continues to be, absolutely fearless.Read Full Review »
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