The Film Yap

A hard-to-watch parade of misfires, the ostensible comedy “Pain & Gain” ends up fetishizing the very warped muscle culture it set out to parody. Continue reading →

Blunt and brisk in its own inoffensive way, “Gangster Squad” is still a piece of meathead cinema and one that’s mostly sizzle, no steak. Continue reading →

Wants to be a fun and zippy thriller, part heist flick and part revenge catharsis, but the moving parts fit together a little too neatly. Continue reading →

Though hardly a cinematic knockout, “Real Steel” is an amusing, if overly sappy, father/son redemption story with impressively cool robots. Continue reading →

It seems free will is not so free in “The Adjustment Bureau,” a bit of trippy entertainment that makes up for its lack of thematic depth. Continue reading →

Less a rumination on free will than a potboiler with some intellectual pretensions, “The Adjustment Bureau” is a pleasant-enough middlebrow mind trip. Continue reading →

“The Hurt Locker” — the Zeroes’ best fictional film about the real war — continues Nick Rogers’ look back at the 365 best films of 2000-2009. Continue reading →

“The Hurt Locker” is a tough, unsparing and brutally honest portrait of the war in Iraq. Continue reading →