Mr. Woodcock knows lots of verbs that mean “having sex” but screws up virtually all opportunities for humor.
Silk has superficial beauty but no soul.
The film is a multifaceted character study that recognizes that success and failure are often byproducts of the very same impulses.
The Price of Sugar’s motive is to open American eyes by illustrating where domestic sugar originates.
Moviegoers beware: nausea is a prime side effect of consuming Feast of Love.
Romanticization takes precedence over analysis in Sean Penn’s Into the Wild.
The portrait painted by Darkon is of low self-esteem and a consequent retreat into immature imagination, and its depiction of grown adults playing pretend is unavoidably funny.
Run, Fatboy, Run so slavishly hews to a familiar rom-com template that it quickly makes itself irrelevant.
With The Brothers Solomon, Will Arnett continues to squander the goodwill he engendered as Gob on Arrested Development.
The film probes man’s interior and interpersonal conflicts while menacing him with external supernatural forces.
Getting worked up over Shoot ‘Em Up’s excessive bloodshed is playing right into its hands.
The closing scene is so modestly pitch-perfect that the perfectly average preceding material barely deserves it.
Rob Zombie’s gut understanding of what makes ’70s horror so great is unfortunately glimpsed in only short, sporadic bursts in Halloween.
Julien Temple’s Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten is, for the most part, some sort of incredible.
Lake of Fire provides gruesome, incontrovertible images to complement the film’s deliberations about morality.
The film is a textbook example of a director prizing himself over his material.
Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s animation is clean, unfussy, and marked by fluid lines.
War is the Heat of cheesy Ameri-Euro-Asian kung-fu cop-crook movies.
Leroy “Nicky” Barnes was clearly a bad man, and for a time impossible to convict, and Mr. Untouchable is best when exploring his brazenness.
Congratulations to Christopher Walken for finally delivering a performance that’s a parody of a parody of himself.