By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) With memorable performances from Christoph Waltz and Amy Adams, who won a Golden Globe for her role, Big Eyes is Tim Burton’s best live action film in years, a richly designed and appropriately offbeat period piece with themes that still feel just as important. The film recounts the… Read More Review: Big Eyes

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Marion Cotillard received a surprise Oscar nomination for her role in Two Days, One Night, and she deserves the Best Actress recognition, delivering an absolutely incredible performance in this excellent latest from master filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Sandra (Marion Cotillard) is a young working class mother in… Read More Review: Two Days, One Night

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) When I reviewed and recommended the dysfunctional family dramedy This is Where I Love You, I noted that I often end up enjoying the work of director Shawn Levy.  And his latest, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, is no exception.  It’s also one of his… Read More Review: Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb

By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) There’s a valid reason why the Swedish export Force Majeure, a festival sensation and sure to be frontrunner for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars, remains among the most discussed and widely praised movies of 2014. This is simply one of the best films of the recently wrapped year, a… Read More Review: Force Majeure

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Recounting the true story of brothers and Olympic wrestlers Mark (Channing Tatum) and Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo), and their uneasy partnership with eccentric millionaire John du Pont (Steve Carell), Foxcatcher offers a compelling look at the dark side of the American Dream, built around three superb performances. When… Read More Review: Foxcatcher

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The final chapter in Peter Jackson’s solidly entertaining trilogy of Middle Earth prequels, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies starts where last year’s The Desolation of Smaug left off, with the deadly dragon (Benedict Cumberbatch) ravaging the fishing village of Laketown, trying to protect his gold.… Read More Review: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) With a cast as impressive as the one that director Rob Marshall has assembled for his soaring cinematic adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s classic Broadway musical Into the Woods, it’s no surprise that pretty much every actor emerges onscreen with some of the best entrances of any movie this… Read More Review: Into the Woods

By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) When Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspoon) started hiking solo along the Pacific Crest Trail, she was battling multiple addictions and substance abuse problems in the wake of her failed marriage, and still grieving the death of her beloved mother (Laura Dern). Finding herself at a crossroads in her mostly… Read More Review: Wild

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Copenhagen is a solidly acted and well made independent film that I think is worth a look.  But this recommendation comes with reservations, because I don’t think that every element of the story works, which I’ll talk about more later on.  The film opens today, exclusively at Carlton Cinemas.… Read More Review: Copenhagen

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The penultimate entry into the wildly successful cinematic saga, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 is the sort of film that is only really worth seeing if you were gripped by the previous instalments, and are already eagerly anticipating next year’s final chapter. And I mean this… Read More Review: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Produced by Terrence Malick, and directed by his collaborator A.J. Edwards, The Better Angels takes a unique approach to the usual biopic formula, focusing on the rural Indiana childhood of Abraham Lincoln (Braydon Denney), years before he became the Sixteenth President. This couldn’t be farther from the expansive… Read More Review: The Better Angels