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Richard Roeper

Review: The Martian

Finally! A botanist superhero! What took you so long, Hollywood? Ridley Scott’s “The Martian” is arguably the warmest, cuddliest film ever made about the Red Planet, an...

Review: Meru

Impossible. When you get a climber’s-eye view of the Shark’s Fin jutting skyward at the very top of the 21,000-foot Meru Peak in the Himalayas, you feel a rock sinking in your sto...

Review: The End of the Tour

In the mid- and late 1990s, it became a thing to read David Foster Wallace’s thousand-page, 3-pound masterwork Infinite Jest, or at least carry it around and claim you were reading it. (This...

Review: No Escape

Looks like they picked the wrong week to move to a fourth-world country. “No Escape” is an outlandish, sometimes brutally violent, exploitative, fast-paced white-knuckler featurin...

Review: We Are Your Friends

Talk about a mediocre mash-up. Much of “We Are Your Friends” plays like an electronic dance music update of a very good John Travolta movie – “Saturday Night Fever” – with a liber...

Review: Hitman: Agent 47

We’re constantly reminded of the video game origins of “Hitman: Agent 47,” from the pulsating music designed to keep our blood pumping to the heavy use of quick cuts interspersed with super-...

Review: Irrational Man

Few working directors are compared to themselves as much as Woody Allen, but the prolific and brilliant Allen brings it upon himself because, let’s face it, for all his filmmaking genius, he...

Review: The Stanford Prison Experiment

A decade and a half after “Almost Famous,” I’m still not sure why Billy Crudup didn’t become an A-list movie star. It’s definitely not for lack of chops. In the chilling and conve...

Review: The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

If Ethan Hunt and his pals from the Impossible Missions Force ever took a breather and decided to have a night at the movies, I bet they’d like “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.”: So that’s how they ...

Review: The Gift

The Golden Age of Stylish Movies About Stalkers commenced with “Fatal Attraction” in 1987 and ran through the mid-1990s, with films such as “Pacific Heights,” “Single White Female,” “Sleepin...

Review: Ricki and the Flash

My running joke about Meryl Streep is she’s so amazing she gets nominated for an Oscar even in years when she wasn’t in any movies. She’s one of the best actors, and quite possibly the most ...

Review: Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation

With “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation,” we’re getting the best Bond movie since “Casino Royale” in 2006. OK, so Ethan Hunt isn’t James Bond and the Impossible Missions Force is...