Red Obsession

The "red" in the title of David Roach's and Warwick Ross's new documentary "Red Obsession" refers to two things: the Bordeaux wines of the top four French châteaux (Lafite-Rothschild, Margaux, Latour et Haut-Brion), which yielded generational vintages in the back-to-back years of 2009 and 2010, and the status-seeking Chinese nouveau riche (including the country's dildo king), who drove their prices to unprecedented (but not necessarily unsustainable) levels.

Man of Steel

Director Zack Snyder’s approach to the Superman saga in “Man of Steel” is probably the smartest: to pretend none of the other movies had been made.

Broken City

Of all the movies I've ever seen, "Broken City" is one of them. There's just nothing distinctive or memorable about this chop-shop amalgam of stock characters, overdetermined plot points, and empty political rhetoric - which is disappointing, given the solid cast.

Les Misérables

I hate “Les Miz” so much it takes all my objectivity to concede that “The King’s Speech” director Tom Hooper has adapted it about as well as humanly possible. And to me it’s still a flatulent, hideously overwrought low-art spectacle, a sketch of a story populated by line drawings of characters.