Matt Pais

It's so weird when a movie about a true story feels phony, reducing a complex issue to something simple and obvious. This should never happen, but it does. And nothing...

Since few people likely would stay interested in the survival efforts of a botanist with the personality of whatever a stereotypical botanist personality is, it's convenient that Mark Watney (Matt...

The real estate system is awful, isn't it? Buying property based on what money you think you'll have despite not being able to predict the future and lenders understandably not...

Man, is "Mississippi Grind" good. Actually, no. It's awesome. Script, performances, characters, everything. Love it. Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn ("Bloodline," "Exodus: Gods and Kings"), finally given a role in an...

You’ve seen plenty of movies about gambling. But “Mississippi Grind,” opening Friday, is a truly fantastic one, featuring incredible performances by Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn as gamblers who team...

It's kind of twisted to promote a movie about a daredevil wirewalker as coming from the director of "Cast Away" and "Flight," two movies in which people fell out of...

I don't know if I've ever spotted a twist faster than in "Goodnight Mommy," which isn't worth sitting through if you pick up on something that I'd argue—and I'm not...

Welcome to RedEye's "Song of the Day," an ongoing feature where music reporter Josh Terry or another RedEye staff member highlights something they're listening to. Some days the track will...

There's no doubt in my mind that the blandly peppy, piano-and-strings music relentlessly caressing "The Intern" was improvised by tossing musicians innocuous titles like "Best Friends Order Cheesecake," "Skipping in...

Play count the clichés in "Stonewall," and you may have trouble keeping up. There's Danny (Jeremy Irvine), the former football player whose bigoted head coach dad kicks him out of...