The Last Exorcism is a horror film for the Christian fundamentalist set.
A treacly tweener saga of first love that drowns in nostalgia, Flipped furthers Rob Reiner’s slide into irrelevance.
Though seemingly content to be a B-movie director, Neil Marshall heads further into C-list territory with Centurion.
Piranha 3D proves a worthy heir to its brazen exploitation-cinema forefathers.
Jason Bateman’s deadpan moroseness brings consistent humor to his character’s struggles.
Amir Bar-Lev’s documentary fundamentally functions as a candid attempt by the Tillman family to rescue their son Pat’s identity and legacy.
Zach Clark’s film posits a world in which finding and maintaining amour is anything but routine.
Animal Kingdom wrongly assumes certain characters deserve empathy simply because they’re protagonists.
The Other Guys isn’t simply a straight Cop Out-style parody.
A cult classic in the making, Audiard’s A Prophet receives a much better shake on DVD than its main character does in prison.
Edgar Wright is cinema’s most inspired mash-up artist, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World may be his finest hybridization to date.
Fans of Stallone’s war-is-kickass-hell fable may get something from this extended cut. Everyone else can safely ignore it.
One can practically hear the Oscar telecast’s orchestral music cuing up at the close of Robert Duvall’s every scene in Get Low.
A PSA masquerading as an actual drama, Helen takes great pains to depict severe depression as not an emotional condition, but an illness.
Charlie St. Cloud stars Disney robo-star Zac Efron as a high school graduate named Charlie who can see dead people.
As a writer and director, Victor Nunez is earnest and compassionate, but also crushingly literal.
With the exception of those missions that specifically require you to scare and not harm, there’s no reason to frighten anyone.
Inception is an ambitious, initially absorbing film that mutates into something unpleasantly unwieldy.
The film effectively slips in a dash of sly commentary to complement its scintillating horror.
After a string of underperforming self-penned duds, M. Night Shyamalan throws his hands up and sells out with The Last Airbender.