‘Don Jon’: Actor-director Joseph Gordon-Levitt scores as a porn-loving meathead

On the heels of Mark Ruffalo playing a sex addict trying to have an actual, person-to-person romance with Gwyneth Paltrow in “Thanks for Sharing,” Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a porn fiend who prefers late-night sessions with his laptop to the real thing, Scarlett Johansson. Talk about …

‘Enough Said’: James Gandolfini shows his lovable side

James Gandolfini’s first appearance in “Enough Said” will quite likely take you out of the story for just a bittersweet moment. I know it did for me. Whether it was his signature role in “The Sopranos” or the terrific character work in films ranging from …

‘Computer Chess’: A knighty wind sweeps up ’80s nerds

A naturalist comic of inarticulate manners, writer-director Andrew Bujalski attempts the ensemble styles of Robert Altman and Christopher Guest to peer into a micro-culture in “Computer Chess.” Artificial intelligence nerds from Cal Tech, MIT and maybe the CIA gather for matches that might be modeled …

‘Inequality for All’: Inconvenient truths about U.S. incomes

Though it’s tempting to imagine the 400 people who earn more than half of the American population combined rubbing their hands greedily and cackling with glee while watching it, there’s not much good news for the rest of us in “Inequality of All.”

Even so, …

An excess of tired cliches in Paula Patton’s ‘Baggage Claim’

Sometimes you have to go really, really, really far out of your way just to discover that what you were looking for was right across the hall.

Yep, right there across the hall, practically jumping up and down and shooting off flares, painfully obvious to …

Anna Faris, among the taco-diles

Anna Faris had to stretch her imagination while delivering lines for “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2.” Her character, Sam, now finds herself in a world of animals that are part food. “Each time I’d go in to record,” she recalls, “I’d be told, …

‘Prisoners’: The tension stays with you

RICHARD ROEPER: In the white-knuckle thriller, Hugh Jackman goes to extremes as a dad driven to find his kidnapped daughter.

‘Salinger’ documentary brings reclusive author out into the open

This review does not reflect changes made to the film this week after its earlier opening in other cities. As many an early review of “Salinger” pointed out, the reclusive subject of Shane Salerno’s documentary most likely would have loathed this intrusive, speculative and sometimes …

‘Thanks for Sharing’ makes you care about sex addicts

When I hear of an actor or a disgraced politician checking himself into rehab because he’s a “sex addict,” I’ll admit my first thought is the guy’s a serial cheater who got caught and this is the best way to rehabilitate his image. Is sexual …

Marriage, stripped down

The biggest problem with “Afternoon Delight” is if these were the people in your neighborhood, you’d start looking for another neighborhood. Just about everyone in this film — including the people we’re supposed to like or at least want to spend time with — is …