Sporadically funny, but excessively vulgar comedy charting the long-standing friendship between a slacker car rental agent (Mark Wahlberg) and the teddy bear (voice of Seth MacFarlane) his childhood wish miraculously brought to life. When their bond is tested by tensions surrounding the wastrel’s romance with his live-in girlfriend (Mila Kunis), the party-loving plush toy proves […]

Repellant Adam Sandler comedy in which he plays a slacker who, as a seventh-grader, was willingly seduced by one of his teachers (Eva Amurri Martino) and conceived a son. Decades later, down on his luck, he seeks out his estranged offspring (Andy Samberg) — now a successful financier engaged to be married (to Leighton Meester) […]

Mostly bloodless, in both a good and bad sense, writer-director Todd Lincoln’s derivative house of horrors tale – his feature debut – avoids offending but fails to engage. An otherworldly entity unleashed in a parapsychology experiment returns to haunt one of the participants (Sebastian Stan) and his live-in girlfriend (Ashley Greene) who knows nothing of […]

Mediocre extension of the popular action franchise – based on a series of novels by Robert Ludlum – that began with 2002’s “The Bourne Identity.” After the (now-absent) titular character’s public exposure of a top secret program that biologically altered government spies to enhance their skills, the intelligence establishment (led by Edward Norton) decides to […]

Director and co-writer Drew Goddard begins with an interesting premise: a stereotypical slasher scenario that’s actually being controlled and manipulated from the outside. His plot focuses on a handful of deliberately two-dimensional teens (most prominently Kristen Connolly and Fran Kranz) who retreat to a remote house, only to be pushed toward doom by the surprisingly […]

A potentially salient critique of the nation’s political process gets buried under a landslide of vulgarity and sex jokes in this comedy from director Jay Roach. With the career of a longtime North Carolina congressman (Will Ferrell) endangered after he misdirects an obscene phone call intended for his mistress, the two wealthy brothers who were […]

Sluggishly unfolding action adventure in which an ordinary businessman (Henry Cavill) unexpectedly finds himself caught up in the world of espionage after his family is kidnapped during a vacation in Spain and he learns that his father (Bruce Willis), whom he believed to be a cultural attache, is in fact a CIA agent. As he […]