Christopher Orr is a senior editor and the principal film critic at The Atlantic. He has written on movies for The New Republic, LA Weekly, Salon, and The New York Sun, and has worked as an editor for numerous publications.
In which I am finally, inevitably, disappointed
Entertainment / 8:01 AM ET
An overdue love letter to the extraordinary meta gangster movie
Entertainment / Sep 10, 2014
Come for the infant abduction, stay for the yodeling.
Entertainment / Sep 9, 2014
Revisiting the lethal cunning of the filmmakers’ debut
Entertainment / Sep 8, 2014
Director Daniel Schechter and star Jennifer Aniston offer up a middling adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel The Switch.
Entertainment / Aug 29, 2014
Timothy Olyphant, star of TV’s Justified, reads a passage from the 1976 novel Swag.
Entertainment / Aug 28, 2014
Apart from a vivid turn by Eva Green, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's long-delayed sequel lacks the stylish excess of the original.
Entertainment / Aug 22, 2014
Marvel's latest—and largest—gamble makes up for its haphazard storytelling with wit and warmth.
Entertainment / Aug 1, 2014
An extended spoilereview of Luc Besson's worst film to date
Entertainment / Jul 25, 2014
Richard Linklater's latest experiment has more to say about parenthood than about its titular subject.
Entertainment / Jul 18, 2014
The evocative, performance-capture apes of Andy Serkis and co. make this one of summer's most satisfying movies.
Entertainment / Jul 11, 2014
Director John Carney attempts to recapture the magic of his 2007 charmer Once, with somewhat mixed results.
Entertainment / Jul 4, 2014
Michael Bay's latest installment is ridiculous, ill-humored, and—at nearly three hours—the most interminable yet.
Entertainment / Jun 27, 2014
Our roundtable on "The Children," the 10th episode of the fourth season of the HBO show.
Entertainment / Jun 16, 2014
Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum deliver an improbably good sequel to an improbably good reboot.
Entertainment / Jun 13, 2014
Our roundtable on "The Watchers on the Wall," the ninth episode of the fourth season of the HBO show.
Entertainment / Jun 9, 2014
Director Doug Liman imbues the Groundhog-Day-meets-Starship-Troopers Tom Cruise vehicle with wit and panache.
Entertainment / Jun 6, 2014
Our roundtable on "The Mountain and the Viper," the eighth episode of the fourth season of the HBO show.
Entertainment / Jun 2, 2014
A rookie director, flimsy script, and way too much CGI doom Disney's revisionist fairy tale.
Entertainment / May 30, 2014
What’s (probably) in store for the final episodes
Entertainment / May 28, 2014
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