Steep provides a skin-deep history lesson on extreme skiing.
The film gets some mileage out of mocking fatuous biopic conventions.
It delivers its metaphors with just enough grace to offset the fact that its titular animal seems hopelessly out of place in a kid’s film.
The whole shebang is just a prolonged setup for a bear fight.
With Revolver, Guy Ritchie pushes the gangster film into gobbledygook abstraction.
The film does little beyond mimicking Napoleon Dynamite’s off-kilter comedic tone and bizarre misfit characters.
Writer-director Don Cato finds innumerable ways to make sure that any hint of humor or social commentary is delivered with utter incompetence.
Youth Without Youth principally stands as a great director’s blast-off into crazy.
This is the Paul Haggis version of National Lampoon’s Vacation, though a whole lot less amusing than that description might imply.
Though based on a video game series, Hitman plays like a music video without the music.
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation is yet another in a long line of coming-of-age tales set against the backdrop of political turmoil.
As with so much of Disney’s female-centric fantasies, the energetic film eventually peddles the same old ass-backward messages.
The film caters to two of the most basic, primal fantasies of hetero adolescent males: slaying a dragon and bedding Angelina Jolie.
The film is such a fluffy cotton candy confection that it can’t be bothered to manufacture any legitimate dramatic tension.
Oswald’s Ghost only skims the surface of the short- and long-term social and political ramifications of JFK’s death.
The potential culture clash between foul-mouthed liberal jokesters and conservative audiences proves nonexistent.
The dominant impression left by Midnight Eagle is one of filmmakers making things up as they go along.
The film is a tender, poignant allegory for Arab-Israeli tensions that never makes a single overt gesture toward articulating its larger concerns.
With The Mist, Frank Darabont ditches the warm and fuzzies for out-and-out cynicism.
As a film partly about the care of a dementia-addled senior citizen, The Savages naturally invites comparisons to Away From Her—all of them unflattering.