The Cabin in the Woods ultimately does exactly what it condemns, prizing schematic formula and ingenuity over real terror.
Playback is a voyeurism-tinged horror film of dismal direct-to-video quality.
The Lorax’s CG style is reminiscent of Horton Hears a Who!, but boasts greater vibrancy.
In the race to achieve unadulterated fourth-wall breakage, Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie is the new pack leader.
The film is a compelling, if often lightweight, portrait of a man driven by outsider fury.
The icy fatalism of film noir is turned to slush by Thin Ice.
The specter of George Lucas looms large over Journey 2: The Mysteries Island.
Not so much an actual movie as an assortment of Amerindie affectations, The Dish & the Spoon doesn’t waste a moment on recognizable reality.
This is a coming-of-age tale that begs to be taken as a dreamy slice of countryside profundity.
The Viral Factor is a cops-and-criminals saga slathered in glossy Michael Bay-isms.
The film comes across as a promotional showcase for a gaggle of young up-and-coming singer-actors.
If ingeniousness is a foreign concept to Contraband, so too are time and space.
Like so much of Roadie, the main character’s emotional circumstances are obvious and uncomplicated.
Guy Ritchie goes for tedious commotion over cheeky comedy in this depressingly flaccid follow-up to 2009’s Sherlock Holmes.
Clichés and contrivances and corniness, oh my!
The narrative backbone is secondary to the filmmaker’s desire to simply revel in gnarly always-wasted craziness.
Drugs make midlife crises bearable! But not really! Such is the profundity of I Melt with You,
Agitprop documentaries are prone to not just biased viewpoints but self-righteousness and condescension—a triple whammy to which The Big Fix can lay claim.
This adaptation of the Bard’s tragedy is contemporized via Paul Greengrass-esque faux-doc aesthetics.
This yuletide fable that boasts Aardman Animation’s peerless mix of whip-smart comedy and cheery heart.