Splinterheads seems to have misplaced most of its jokes.
The only thing mysterious about Orphan is why Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard signed on to such an idiotic mess.
In cinema as in life, the devotion inspired by cults can—like the Jonestown thirst for Kool-Aid—border on lunacy.
Labor Day is a promotional film best suited for broadcast in an office lobby.
Anthony Fabian treats his material with a respectful reserve that keeps events from toppling over into corny histrionics.
The Saw franchise goes, ugh, topical with this sixth installment.
Amelia attempts the yeoman’s task of recounting a tale about which it has virtually nothing to say.
Like its insane papa-via-marriage, Nelson McCormick’s The Stepfather remake is a shabby substitute for its original.
Throughout, humor and romance are interspersed so predictably that it’s as if screenwriter Pete Chairelli were working from a rom-com checklist.
Long, inert, and torturously unfunny, the film makes a strong case for the drunk-and-promiscuous single life.
Nicolas Winding Refn’s Bronson is a fast, ferocious, wickedly funny portrait of one man’s acceptance of his bone-deep animalism.
Peter Morgan’s interest in prominent media figures intent on proving themselves worthy of their public spotlight positions continues with The Damned United.
Free Style provides ample opportunity to swoon over Corbin Bleu’s big floppy hair and Disney Channel-grade emoting.
Harmony Korine’s Trash Humpers has a premise so mind-bogglingly stupid that the outcome could only be genius or daft.
Call it Land of the Dull.
As with Palindromes, the film revolves around a casting gimmick, with its predecessor’s roles now embodied by all new performers.
The Invention of Lying sets its sights high before settling for comfortable lovey-dovey convention.
A striking Blu-ray transfer that does justice to the formalist experience that is The Girlfriend Experience.
This intertwined tale of people struggling on society’s fringe plays like bad community theater.
Intimate Enemies dully critiques the international war on terror via the Algerian war.