Trainwreck Is a Winner, Until It Turns Into a Judd Apatow MovieIf you’re an Amy Schumer lover, you’ll be ecstatic to see her strut her stuff in this mostly delightful sex comedy — and maybe a tad disappointed when the playbook turns out not to be entirely hers.
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Movie Review: Cartel LandOne of the year’s most important documentaries is so difficult to get a handle on that I’ve struggled with my own responses for weeks.
Results Is Andrew Bujalski’s Smoothest, Craftiest Movie YetThe most adorable aspect of the deadpan-goofy quasi-romance Results is the way two of the three main characters have the hardest bodies imaginable but soft hearts and wooly heads.
Movie Review: Far From the Madding CrowdMoviegoers often say, “Forget about the book, even if it’s a ‘classic.’ How does the film work on its own terms?” On its own terms, it’s bewildering.
Chappie Is Like RoboCop Starring Jar Jar BinksA sentimental comedy-thriller with hideous violence and a profound cynicism about the inexorability of the computer-enhanced surveillance state.
Vulture’s Movie Critics Live-Blog the OscarsNew York and Vulture film critics David Edelstein and Bilge Ebiri will be right here, voicing their approval and disgust of all the winners.