In-depth film reviews, rated A through F, from someone who definitely thinks he knows more about movies than you.
Additional redeeming features are spattered here and there. Mouzakis gives a highly commendable performance; his portrayal of Steven injects a necessary depth into a script otherwise lacking in momentum. However,…
I wish I had better things to say about A Little Chaos. It finds a strong female protagonist in De Barra, who Winslet plays with assuredness and power. But the…
An emotionally resonant win for faux-cinéma vérité (with a surprise cameo from nerd prince Freddie Wong), The Strongest Man becomes occasionally untacked by amateur bits of visual collage work, the…
Most don’t realize that Dante’s Hell was more frozen-over than burning hot. It’s appropriate, for if this film were brought to judgment, its feigned premise – that bait-and-switch of the…
In large part due to smarmy secondary characters the likes of Law, Statham and Bryne, Spy does slip in some low laughs, sometimes even at the hands of McCarthy. And…
The end result has its mildly bemusing moments - especially when in the supremely self-deprecating hands of Kevin Dillon - but is ultimately an entirely unnecessary addition to canon whose…
With all that out of the way, does Poltergeist reinvent the wheel? Absolutely not. Nor is there anything particularly noticeable about this remake that demands its existence. But moreso than…
Ultimately, Niccol's has made a film that probes cinematic rocks previously left unturned and does so in fairly compelling manner. Most of the time. He unearths the occasional scene dripping…
Vinterburg delivered a picture of staggering depth with The Hunt and unfortunately his vibrantly nuanced tendencies have all but disappeared here, like a children hiding beneath his mother’s dress. Though…
The Avengers: Age of Ultron, though single-serving entertainment sure to delight the masses, is a clumsy effort to consolidate stories that prove irreconcilable. With the MCU amoeba-ing into larger, stranger…