A messy experience, any way you want to slice it.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 is no more a nice movie than Katniss is a nice person. But …
Based on an Oscar-winning Argentinean drama, this is a film that’s uncomfortable and sometimes downright difficult to watch.
The fact that all 33 miners made it out of the mine is something of a miracle. And this movie …
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 …
The Last Witch Hunter never quite even makes it to bland.
His is a story with a moralistic flare that might have stumbled in lesser hands.
Sometimes it takes a dead planet to make us appreciate the value of a single life.
Families may feel the film depicts more of Ashley’s and Brian’s sinfulness than they want to see. But this difficult …
There’s no real “woo-hoo!” moment by film’s end. It’s quite simply a well-acted, documentary-like chronicling.
An overlong frenetic freefall of a film that, for all its action, feels surprisingly bereft of drama.
The most real thing that happens is here on earth. Not a bad thing, maybe, since it resonates far more …
