Addicted (2014)
Addicted is a snooze-inducing erotic thriller made by people who must not know that cheap titillation in feature films went out of style when porn on the internet became commonplace years ago. Based on the...
Category: Thriller
The Judge (2014)
Hotshot defense attorney from Chicago, Hank Palmer (Downey Jr.), returns to his small-town Indiana roots when he attends the funeral of his recently passed mother, leaving a high-profile case and a messy divorce in...
Stretch (2014)
Joe Carnahan is a director with talent for action, grit, and thrills in movies like Narc and The Grey, but if there’s anything we’ve learned from watching such efforts as Blood Guts Bullets & Octane, Smokin’ Aces, and The A-Team, it’s...
The Equalizer (2014)
The Equalizer is very loosely based on the hit show from the 1980s, starring Edward Woodward, that ran from 1985 to 1989. This new incarnation ramps up the comic book aspects of its premise and...
The Purge: Anarchy (2014)
The first The Purge had been one of the surprise hits of 2013, earning $64 million on a $3 million budget. What it had was its interesting concept. What it lacked was the budget to really...
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Tom Cruise in another big-budget science fiction vehicle that’s not easy to readily separate from one of his other recent releases (Oblivion, War of the Worlds, Minority Report), but don’t let its familiar premise or generic...
21 Jump Street (2012)
The thought of yet another classic TV show being remade as a modern-day spoof doesn’t exactly fill a savvy moviegoer with delight, as most have been misfires that missed the mark by making little...
Enemy (2013)
Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Incendies) directs this loosely surreal Javier Guillon (The Boy Who Smells Like Fish, Invader) adaptation of the 2002 Jose Saramago novel, “The Double.” Some viewers will see tangential similarities to the...
Joe (2013)
While it may pale somewhat in comparison to another independent film with a title that is monosyllabic nickname for coffee, Mud, Joe still ultimately emerges as a fine, lesser companion piece than a just a simple variation...
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a sequel to both Captain America: The First Avenger and The Avengers, two of the best of the Marvel series of movies to come out, and manages to rank right among them in...