Review: L.A. Noire

L.A. Noire isn’t about exploration or combat, both of which seem to have been included more as tacked-on concessions to hardcore gamers than integral components of the larger story.

Review: Priest

In the way it unimaginatively regurgitates familiar genre elements in service of preachy piousness, Scott Charles Stewart’s cinema is the equivalent of Christian rock.

Review: Bridesmaids

It deftly navigates the ins and outs of platonic-pal sentimentality while reveling in the sublime pleasures of gross-out nastiness.

Review: The Guard

With shrewd wit, John Michael McDonagh’s script proceeds to self-reflexively address the very conventions it’s employing.

Review: 13 Assassins

This swordfighting epic is delivered with a blockbuster scope and sincerity free of Takeshi Miike’s trademark gonzo insanity.

Review: Mortal Kombat

It may rankle diehards in its reconfiguration of the series’s convoluted lore into a more streamlined, mainstream-accessible good-vs.-evil formula.

Review: Last Night

This is the type of project in which movie stars indulge their oh-so-serious side via facile stripped-down character drama.

Review: Portal 2

A physics-based puzzle game that prides mental acuity over murderous mayhem, Portal 2 is the phenomenal follow-up that Valve’s 2007 hit deserved.

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