Reviews

Unlike the similarly titled and painfully over-praised “C’mon C’mon,” “There There” pursues complicated truth instead of pointing at a simplified version of it.

A delicate balance of self-awareness and vulnerability, disbelief and discomfort.

Simply not enough in nearly every category.

A screen saver posing as a movie, with a dead-end plot merely killing time before, um, killing time.

Too often feels annoying and aimless instead of insightful and clever.

When a person’s career has been defined by surface-level sensationalism, you’d think that the goal here would be clarity.

The kind of just-OK movie for which the “rent it” designation was created.

Occasionally achieves the desired crackle.

Part of a necessary conversation, but only accomplishes so much on its own.

At heart “Somebody I Used to Know” is about the messy reasons people do things (alone and with and to each other) and the separation between what is said, done and felt.

Sharper and more satisfying than we have any right to expect a movie like this to be.

Progressively acknowledges the reasons different people aim high and the difficulty in ever filling a need that may be inherently insatiable.

Yeah, the filmmaking shows potential, but the feeling never arrives — only the false suggestion that it’s been there the whole time.

Vapid, scattered and rather embarrassing.

Turns vacation into a breathing organism and a level-headed examination of deliberately thoughtless behavior.

Feels like Zach Braff trying to make “Adventureland.”

Understands trauma and the past’s unknown forecast for the future.

Filled with immature, unfunny foolishness and the assumption that we’ll find it charming just because of who’s on screen.

Exhilarating at its best and worthy of reflection even at its most obvious and narrow.

Actually, “At Midnight” doesn’t deserve a review. It demands a live-tweet into a megaphone, held to the flaming mouth of a dragon.