Stash HouseFilm ReviewsDespite a decent premise -- a couple unknowingly buys a foreclosed home full of heroin that prior criminal owners want back -- the pic's pedestrian execution and uninvolving characters make it a passable time-filler at best.Dennis Harvey5/10/2012 2:00pm PT
The Philly KidFilm ReviewsPic delivers the basic goods, if not much more, as formulaic, functional guys'-night-in entertainment, providing employment to many shirtless, no-necked actors.Dennis Harvey5/10/2012 2:00pm PT
Common LawTV ReviewsWhile USA has a genuine knack for wringing maximum effect from such light-hearted concepts, this one ought to come with a prenup.Brian Lowry5/9/2012 5:38pm PT
Girl in ProgressFilm Reviews"Girl in Progress," from helmer Patricia Riggen ("Under the Same Moon") and screenwriter Hiram Martinez, never finds its own groove, alternating between high-school dramedy and overworked-single-mom narratives without ever really becoming a mother-and-daughter story until the closing scenes.Boyd van Hoeij5/9/2012 4:06pm PT
The RoadFilm Reviews"The Road" indeed leads to horror, as co-written and directed by Filipino filmmaker Yam Laranas, but it takes a while.Rob Nelson5/9/2012 4:05pm PT
Somebody Up There Likes MeFilm ReviewsSomething stops Max from aging in "Somebody Up There Likes Me," a droll, low-budget comedy that never comments on the fact that its lead character remains roughly 28 for his entire life.Peter Debruge5/8/2012 7:14pm PT
Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu StoryFilm ReviewsHalf posthumous love letter, half historical re-enactment, "Follow Me" revisits Israel's near-mythic 1976 hostage rescue at Entebbe through the eyes of those who survived it, and one who didn't: Yonatan Netanyahu, the only Israeli officer killed in the raid.John Anderson5/8/2012 4:46pm PT
The GirlFilm ReviewsTurning slowly from gritty to pretty, Riker's drama boasts impressive perfs from Aussie thesp Abbie Cornish and talented non-pro Maritza Santiago Hernandez in the title role.Rob Nelson5/8/2012 9:51am PT
Dark ShadowsFilm ReviewsThis bizarre but weirdly bloodless retro-camp exercise is neither funny nor eerie enough to seduce the uninitiated.Justin Chang5/7/2012 11:00pm PT
White HeatTV ReviewsAn interesting if familiar premise -- focusing on a group of London flatmates, cutting between then and now, beginning in 1965 -- "White Heat" hardly merits the name, proving more plodding and cliched than anything else.Brian Lowry5/7/2012 6:35pm PT
Dragon EyesFilm ReviewsMaintaining an admirably straight face, this fist-flying flashback is good fun for fanboy types who take its myriad absurdities with the requisite grain of salt.Dennis Harvey5/7/2012 5:51pm PT
Lonely, I'm NotLegit ReviewsPaul Weitz, who shot to fame with "American Pie," has a thing for compulsive overachievers who flame out on the pyre of their own ambitions. Marilyn Stasio5/7/2012 5:00pm PT
NestingFilm ReviewsA comedy about acting your age, or not, writer-director John Chuldenko's "Nesting" focuses on a thirtysomething Los Angeles couple who, worried they've settled down too fast, try to revisit their free-spirited youth (all of 10 years earlier). Dennis Harvey5/7/2012 4:15pm PT
Burn: One Year on the Front Lines of the Battle to Save DetroitFilm ReviewsThe pro-Detroit docu "Burn" never once mentions the auto industry, but nonetheless vividly illustrates the city's running-on-empty status.Rob Nelson5/7/2012 3:03pm PT
Off LabelFilm Reviews"Off Label" is a pretentiously poetic docu-mosaic whose choices appear to have been made for pseudo-artistic rather than principled reasons.Rob Nelson5/6/2012 6:11pm PT
Patience (After Sebald)Film ReviewsOpening May 9 at Gotham's Film Forum, this deconstructive pic never wields Sebald's subversive power but follows evocatively in his wake.Ronnie Scheib5/6/2012 5:32pm PT
TransitFilm ReviewsThere's nothing quite like having murderous thieves on your trail to get those dysfunctional-family issues resolved in a hurry, as a Texas family discovers in "Transit."Dennis Harvey5/6/2012 5:30pm PT
The Beatles: The Lost ConcertFilm ReviewsRepackaging footage reportedly inaccessible for decades, "The Beatles: The Lost Concert" presents what's billed as the Fab Four's only available complete live show.Dennis Harvey5/6/2012 5:27pm PT
Lady AntebellumMusic ReviewsThe band turned up the energy and the volume with aplomb, hitting just about all of the right notes in a genial, not-too-glossy 90-minute set.Deborah Sprague5/6/2012 5:14pm PT
Any Day NowFilm ReviewsThis intimate character drama explores gay adoption rights, or rather the lack thereof, in 1970s Los Angeles without ever becoming preachy or pushing for contempo relevance.Boyd van Hoeij5/6/2012 5:11pm PT