After a string of underperforming self-penned duds, M. Night Shyamalan throws his hands up and sells out with The Last Airbender.
Adam Sandler spends more time laughing at jokes than making them in Grown Ups.
Jonah Hex definitely appears to be making itself up as it goes along.
Dreck of the shrillest order, When in Romes drops on DVD with a transfer that looks as if it was literally pissed on.
Jay and Mark Duplass inch closer to successfully infusing comedy-of-awkwardness with pained pathos in Cyrus.
The film compellingly suggests that those who work for Doctors Without Borders are close to modern-day saints.
No amount of random one-liners can compensate for material that operates like a booze bender.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s latest exalts mouse trap-style set pieces as a be-all-end-all.
Red Dead Redemption is at once upfront about its cinematic influences and yet not beholden to them.
Eastwood’s dull Invictus receives a lackluster welcome to home video.
Shrek Forever After isn’t offensive, just innocuous and unnecessary.
Kevin Asch so thoroughly enmeshes one in his Hasidic Brooklyn milieu that his film initially counterbalances its plot’s banality by focusing on particulars.
The game has one foot firmly planted in expansive, compelling storytelling, and the other in basic gameplay.
One would think the presence of the regal Vanessa Redgrave might at least moderately enhance Letters to Juliet’s wine-country schmaltz.
The tedious Legion teaches us nothing, except that Paul Bettany matches a fetching brunette.
The big-studio romantic comedy has become so intractably set in its ways that there’s no longer hope for true innovation.
TiMER is not only predicated on a ridiculous premise, but one with a surprisingly muddled message.
In Marc Forby’s hands, Kaiulani’s story amounts to almost nothing, given how one-dimensionally she’s characterized.
Iron Man 2 is an example of subtraction by addition.
Ultimately, the main selling point here is wielding Shadow as a weapon, and it’s a gimmick whose implementation is frustratingly rudimentary.