Tyler Perry’s film adaptation clearly preaches to the converted while presupposing its TV-sitcom humor will win (or convert) new fans.
An overrated groundbreaker with a memorable lead performance, it’s only vital for the die-hard Warner Bros. gangster series completist.
Little Caesar feels stilted when stacked up against its tougher depression-era contemporaries.
This classic holds up beautifully even against a less than first-class DVD treatment.
The film has James Cagney as the star, which is always a plus for studio pictures of this era.
More for fans of Freddy vs. Jason than fans of the original Alien and Predator films.
Count on Wes Anderson’s visual and verbal witticisms and presence of Murray to guide us through the rougher waters of the film.
Writer-director Michael Radford drowns The Merchant of Venice in self-importance.
Niels Mueller’s film is a bitter pill about an everyman fed up with the lies inherent in the American Dream.
The film takes Walter as he is, and doesn’t romanticize him, or transform him into a leering villain.
With Seed of Chucky, Don Mancini finally admits his true love for camp and homage.
Sorry, pervs, but Colin Farrell’s penis has stayed on the cutting room floor.
There aren’t a lot of extras on this Unrated Director’s Cut DVD but there isn’t a single boring moment here.
The film doesn’t announce first-time director James Wan as a new auteur, but as a media-saturated copycat.
The DVD for is rather pedestrian, but luckily the film is extraordinary enough to stand on its own.
Manhattanites will especially enjoy Jarmusch’s latest, which takes us back to the days when you used to be able to smoke indoors.
Become “one” with Irma P. Hall’s killer humdingers with the DVD’s enhanced ScriptScanner enhanced computer feature.
The most glaring problem with the film is that it’s populated with anonymously attractive people from the L.A. talent pool.
Clearly in adoration of the George A. Romero zombie films, Shaun of the Dead is a playful spoof of the slow walking undead.
Independent cinema has fallen hard and it can’t get up.