The potential dangers of child vaccines are tackled with mild evenhandedness but little decisive insight in The Greater Good.
The film overflows with characters even more repugnant than the irony of its groan-worthy title.
The film makes a strong, if unintentional, case for the pathetic emptiness of the punk-rock life.
Rarely has Werner Herzog seemed less capable of infusing a nonfiction inquiry with poetic depth than with Into the Abyss.
The film comes to play like a sly sales pitch for 3D TV sales, directed squarely at coach-potato potheads.
Andrew Niccol returns to the eugenics-fostered class dynamics of Gattaca with In Time.
The film is a TV movie-grade romantic farce that’s practically medieval in its cornball conventionality.
Just as importantly, hand-to-hand combat remains a free-flowing, rapid-fire thrill, allowing you to assault a wide assortment of opponents with various button-combination attack and counter techniques.
The activity is pretty normal in Paranormal Activity 3, at least relative to its predecessors.
The director is uninterested in truly plumbing the more painful, confusing emotions and thorny educational and social issues that confront her subjects.
The film mistakes pretty-kid pouting, long silences, and heavy-handed environment-reflects-character symbolism for actual insight.
The film wears its convictions about deception, creativity, and the importance of being a really good daddy on its shopworn sleeves.
The atmosphere of Ami Canaan Mann’s film suggests drowning in quicksand.
With Policeman, Nadav Lapid plumbs Israel’s fractured psyche via narrative splintering.
The main campaign at least affords enough decent boss battles to make completing the title reasonably worthwhile.
Will Sylvester Stallone receive residuals from Real Steel?
The exterior mirrors the interior and vice versa in Melancholia.
To read A Separation as a metaphor on both a big and small scale is not just accurate but unavoidable.
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil flip-flops traditional genre dynamics in a manner more cute than uproarious.
Bunraku jumbles together elements with a self-consciousness that’s as turgid as its story proper.