Whether or not one is able to find humor in Dane Cook’s spastic white-boy antics, it’s now clear that the man was born to play the role of the asinine romantic.
Family That Preys is nothing if not an exquisite and effortlessly crowd-pleasing reflection of a morally plagued, money-worshipping society.
The film is nothing if not a self-aware response to the criticisms previously (and continuously) lobbed at its makers.
Bustin’ Down the Door begins on a note of such rote summary that it effectively neuters all that follows.
The latest collaboration between Eddie Murphy and Norbit director Brian Robbins is not, in fact, the worst movie ever made.
The film is a darling relationship drama that probes our collective fears about financial instability.
Its vision of humanity rewound to a feudal state of being is pulpy and smart, though the film is more likely to be remembered as the longest car commercial ever made.
The film’s greatest strength is also its greatest limitation.
Marvel and M. Night Shyamalan attempt to atone for their purported sins with The Incredible Hulk and The Happening.
To the Limit could have easily been renamed Vertigo without giving the master of suspense any postmortem unease.
On the Rumba River illuminates a culture’s means of political response via communal expression through music.
Strongest among the six selections is, perhaps incidentally, the titular L’Origine de la Tendresse.
Bloodline poses an implicit dilemma to viewers and critics: How do we know if what we’re watching is real?
Part Peter Jackson gross-out fest, part shapeless political commentary, cult director Lloyd Kaufman’s film is grindhouse schlock without form or content.
Though broader and less funny than Idiocracy, the political commentary of Zombie Strippers is effectively one-note.
The film is most impressive as that rare crowd-pleaser with a genuinely artistic touch.
The film panders to those short on memory as if its central inspiration, Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, were just released last week.
Masayuki Ochiai’s Shutter is a ghost story free of logic and spirit.
Neil Marshall’s film thrives on the basis of chic, iconic imagery, juxtaposing eras new and old in a violent upheaval of social values.
Wetlands Preserved understands the unifying power of music-as-activism.