It simply creates an overwhelming urge to head straight for the nearest theater door.
The Grudge, like the original Japanese incarnation, isn’t a great-looking film, but this is a great-looking DVD.
Saying Alone in the Dark is better than House of the Dead is akin to praising syphilis for not being HIV.
It’s a measure of how far hip-hop has come that Ice Cube now headlines Are We There Yet?.
Substituting titillating triumph for tragedy, this adaptation of Marvel Comics’s knife-wielding knockout comes across as hopelessly blunted.
If White Noise is to be believed, then TV’s psychic medium John Edward is no longer needed.
One of the best Hollywood pop films of 2004, Cellular gets a handsome audio/video treatment on this New Line Platinum Series DVD.
True to the spirit of the film, the hearty supplemental materials arranged on this DVD set range from the dope to the simply flatulent.
All that Robert De Niro accomplishes is accentuating the needlessness of this tired, redundant focker of a film.
Rex Reed called it “an action spectacle of weight, splendor and vast entertainment value.” Make of that what you will.
A work of MTV-styled historical projection, King Arthur allows Guinevere to kick considerable ass-pity the film can’t do the same.
A piss-poor follow-up to the Paul W.S. Anderson original, but the DVD’s cover art and slip sleeve are pretty nifty.
Joy to the world: Wicker Park imagines what life must be like inside a music video.
In this extreme year, nothing was quite as outlandish as Team America’s showstopping scene of hardcore marionette sex.
Oh, those wacky white folks!
Finally, I can say that Will Smith and I have something in common: We’re both allergic to bullshit.
Even though Dodgeball tries entirely too hard to be funny, the hearty extras collected on this DVD edition are rather nifty.
National Treasure is a cornucopia of ridiculously over-the-top action, humor, and romance.
Mike Hodges’s sleek, bleak film may be the year’s nastiest noir, but its low profile won’t improve via Paramount’s perfunctory DVD.
The film leaves the enduring impression that carnival barker Jean-Pierre Jeunet has run out of new ideas.