Peter Travers gets a lot of criticism from readers who say he’s just knocking movies left and right, but this week he’s celebrating all the great films arriving in theaters in time for the holidays. ...
Fresh installments of two familiar franchises hit movie theaters this weekend – Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows and Mission: Impossible ”“ Ghost Protocol. Guy Ritchie thoroughly botched the latest Holmes by ditching the witty banter ...
★★★ Brit singer puts in a bid for rock stardom with big tunes, bigger emotions
★★★ 2011’s weirdest collabo banks on high-decibel art rock
★★ More cheeseball rock ballads about really meaning it, man
The ’80s are back via pop-punk group Blondie’s new album Panic Of Girls
★★★ DGC/Interscope The hitmaking punks return with grown-up problems and an artier brand of bounce
★★1/2 Wind-up Dark-rock princess returns without enough fresh ideas
★★★1/2 Island Fall Out boy reinvents himself as slicked-up hook-slinger
★★★★ (Nonesuch) Come for the iPad gimmick, stay for the eerie brilliance