Spectre’s conspicuous turn to the past also gives us a new opportunity to notice how Bond has changed over the …
It’s a cinematic construct that relishes taking long, easy moments to just study actress Saoirse Ronan’s serene face, watching her …
By the time the credits roll, Our Brand Is Crisis feels a lot like a badly run political campaign itself: …
The Last Witch Hunter never quite even makes it to bland.
Bill Murray has the comedically cantankerous genius-in-his-own mind shtick down pat. He unleashes it again in Rock the Kasbah, to …
Room can be crass and crude and incredibly uncomfortable to see. Room is also a thing of beauty—as inspiring a …
Movies are a lot like people, too. Great ones are not always good ones. Steve Jobs, rated R as it …
Families may feel the film depicts more of Ashley’s and Brian’s sinfulness than they want to see. But this difficult …
An overlong frenetic freefall of a film that, for all its action, feels surprisingly bereft of drama.
Before you know it, the zest of an original perspective explodes against the screen in predictably wincing and foul and …
The Transporter Refueled is more—which means less—than a piece of silly, late-summer theater filler. It’s a loathsome exercise in rationalization.
Nature can even feel like church sometimes, with birds supplying the worship music and lichen padding the pews. This movie, …
It feels strangely cynical, and its pseudo aversion to cursing—while welcome—can’t completely ameliorate the moral hole at its core.
No matter how you parse these spiritual musings, though, there are plenty of other reasons not to see Hercules.