My Bloody Valentine 3D is mildly proficient as far as throwbacks go.
The film functions more like an intellectualized primer than an actual terrifying experience.
The film has a fictional falsity that’s at direct odds with Biggie’s celebrated hard-knock rhymes.
The most lamentable thing about the dismal Bride Wars is the total absence of fatalities.
The year is only a week old and already the cinema gods have bestowed upon us a candidate for most awesome catchword of the year: Jumby!
Had it focused solely on mid-level card-shark scams and the old-school pros who ply their deceptive craft, the film might have been a low-key charmer.
A good-but-not-great movie gets a good-but-not-great DVD treatment. Rolling papers not included.
Aleksei Balabanov’s Cargo 200 rips life in 1980s’ USSR via the twin vehicles of horror and black comedy.
This holiday adventure has a big central concept and next to no desire to follow through on reasonably—much less fully—exploiting it.
Hell is Marley & Me.
David Fincher would seem, in terms of temperament, an unlikely directorial choice for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Incongruous vocal intonations aren’t even the most significant problem plaguing Bryan Singer’s film.
Sam Mendes’s first, most crucial mistake is to buy what the Wheelers are selling.
That stink emanating from the vicinity of Yes Man is desperation.
The film’s plot is uneven, splitting time between three protagonists who together feature zero endearing defining traits.
Documentaries in particular enjoyed a banner year, whether crafted by well-known legends of the medium or heretofore-unknown talents.
The tossed-off quality of this central moral at least minimizes the preaching, perhaps the only way in which this new version trumps its creakily sermonizing predecessor.
Collectors and franchise geeks will no doubt go batty for this two-disc set.
The film does little more than dress up sloppy Yuletide family reunion clichés in Puerto Rican garbs.
Stephen Daldry is once again drawn to a tale that alternates between (and often parallels) intrinsically connected pasts and presents.