Set in a dystopian future America during the one night each year when any crime may be committed with impunity, writer-director James DeMonaco’s thriller – a potentially challenging study of the conflict between lifeboat ethics and personal decency – degenerates into an orgy of the very violence it sets out to question. When the chosen […]

Tedious comedy in which an ensemble of actors playing themselves (most prominently James Franco, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen – who directed, with Evan Goldberg – and Jay Baruchel) are holed up in a Los Angeles mansion during the Apocalypse. Rogen and Goldberg, who also wrote the script, celebrate altruism and loyal friendship. But no other […]

When two middle-aged watch salesmen (Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson) suddenly find themselves unemployed – and with nothing to show for their years of enthusiastic peddling – they apply to the internship program at corporate giant Google, a domain dominated by tech-savvy college-age kids. Director Shawn Levy, working from a script co-written by Vaughn, strains […]