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Review: Likeable 'Tomorrowland' tries too hard

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 12:15am
There’s a lot to like about Disney’s “Tomorrowland.” It has George Clooney and Hugh Laurie, robots and explosions, a positive message, and it puts the fate of the future in the hands of two sm…

Review: 'Mad Max: Fury Road' is dazzling

Fri, 05/15/2015 - 12:15am
The silences in “Mad Max: Fury Road” are unsettling.

Review: 'Ex Machina' is stylish thriller

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 12:15am
“Ex Machina” is a tense tale of artificial love so intelligently crafted and edgy that I adored it myself. It juxtaposes several kinds of stories like a Chinese puzzle. It’s a coherent, suspen…

Review: 'Age of Ultron' is Avengers overdose

Fri, 05/01/2015 - 12:15am
It will surely stand as one of the most peculiar and possibly ironic entries in a director’s filmography that in between Joss Whedon’s two “Avengers” films there reads “Much Ado About Nothing”…

Review: 'Adaline' is both ludicrous, deeply moving

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 12:15am
Is it possible for a movie to be at once ludicrously silly and genuinely moving? That’s the strange question you might find yourself asking while watching “The Age of Adaline,” a romantic fant…

Movie review: 'Monkey Kingdom' is revolution in cuteness

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 12:15am
“Monkey Kingdom,” Disneynature’s latest Earth Day offering, is an intriguing peek inside the social structure of macaque monkey society in Sri Lanka.

Review: 'Furious 7' is over-the-top fun

Fri, 04/03/2015 - 12:15am
Fast-moving fight scenes, outrageous auto antics and a sprinkling of ridiculous one-liners make “Furious 7” a campy, crowd-pleasing escape.

Review: Animated alien adventure 'Home' lands with a thud

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 12:15am
In “Home,” the latest adventure from DreamWorks Animation, the misfit alien protagonist is called Oh (“The Big Bang Theory’s” Jim Parsons) simply because that’s the resigned reaction everyone …

Review: 'Insurgent' could use more divergence

Fri, 03/20/2015 - 12:15am
Given that conformity is the scourge of the “Divergent” series and much of its young-adult ilk, it’s a shame that the films, including the new “Insurgent,” do so little to stray from well-worn…

Review: 'Cinderella' has old-fashioned charm

Fri, 03/13/2015 - 12:15am
In this age of revisionist, modernized Disney fairytales, where we’ve learned that some of our favorite characters really aren’t what they seemed, the striking thing about the studio’s sumptuo…

Review: 'Chappie' is a childish disaster

Fri, 03/06/2015 - 12:15am
Wrongheaded in conception, eye-rolling in execution, “Chappie” is a childish blend of the cute robot goofiness of “Short Circuit” and the bloody-minded mayhem of “RoboCop.” It never finds its …

Review: Smith pours on charm in 'Focus'

Fri, 02/27/2015 - 12:15am
If the mark of a good con artist is that he or she makes you think you know exactly what’s going on — when of course you haven’t a clue — that’s also the mark of a good con-artist movie, isn’t…

Review: Costner perfect in 'McFarland USA'

Fri, 02/20/2015 - 12:15am
“McFarland, USA” could so easily have been yet another mushy, feel-good, by-the-numbers sports underdog movie. And in beginning, it seems like it’s heading there.

Review: 'Fifty Shades' of dissatisfaction

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 12:15am
Curious? The posters for “Fifty Shades of Grey” coyly ask.

Review: SpongeBob takes us on zany trip

Fri, 02/06/2015 - 12:15am
Would that all of our brains resembled that of SpongeBob SquarePants — and we’re talking about his actual brain, like, the cerebral matter located somewhere inside that porous yellow body.

Review: Tired gimmick weakens 'Almanac'

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 12:15am
What have we done to deserve another found-footage movie? The tired hand-held technique that seemed so fresh in 1999 with “The Blair Witch Project” long ago wore out its welcome.

Sundance Film Festival: Milwaukee filmmakers hack into success with 'The 414s'

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 6:15am
Director Michael Vollmann and producer Chris James Thompson had their short film accepted to Sundance and then sold to CNN.

Badgering Sundance: Wisconsin filmmakers and movie lovers storm Park City

Wed, 01/28/2015 - 6:00am
These films might not all be coming to a theater near you this year, but they’ll likely be coming to a screen near you one way or another.

Sundance Film Festival: Stoughton's Found Footage duo get short film into Slamdance

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 1:00pm
Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher had the music video they directed for "Peter on Your Mind" accepted at Slamdance, the scrappy alternative to Sundance.

Sundance Film Festival: UW grad and NASA scientist Adam Steltzner rockets into Park City

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 8:30am
Steltzner, a lead designer on the Mars Curiosity Rover, was asked to serve on a special jury for a prize honoring science in film.

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