Snyder’s space epic plays more to his strengths, but it can’t rise above his weaknesses.
The film’s human melodramas play second fiddle to the kick-ass action sequences.
Not only is Ripley personality-free (is the character jaded or is Sigourney Weaver simply bored?), so is the alien.
The much-maligned last part in the Alien quadrilogy should be approached as the comic-book actioneer that it is.
As usual, the biggest surprises came in small packages.
Jacques Rivette’s spry and intoxicating 1974 comedy observes the way women look at each other, themselves, and the world around them.
Throughout, you can practically smell the year-old hotdish.
Sending up Jack Nicholson’s real-life penchant for dating younger women, the film benefits greatly from his rascally screen presence.
It lacks the comic mastery of Kingpin and Shallow Hal’s cutting insights about body image, but it’s still a big-hearted charmer.
The film serviceably recreates the clique-infested teen culture of an affluent suburban high school.
Mike Newell’s Mona Lisa Smile is a hopeless lesson on how to beat a dead horse.
Is Nicole Kidman contractually obligated to interact with birds in all her films?
Among favorite cinephile pet auteurs, no one’s reputation has had a rougher ride than that of Otto Preminger.
True crime, secret lesbians, Floridian trailer trash, and ’80s pop music—these lurid ingredients come together in Monster.
The film is content to be a squishy, serious-minded lesson about embracing one’s heritage and cherishing the virtues of valor and respect.
Throughout, Peter Jackson’s majestic longshots and extreme close-ups will make you swoon.
One of the finest things one could say about Young Sherlock Holmes is that it endeavors to honor a legend.
Looks like someone’s been watching Dangerous Minds.
The only thing more outdated than Cheaper by the Dozen’s soundtrack is its hokey life lessons.
Sergio Leone made a fistful of great films, but none better than this ode to the fading American frontier.
The film’s father-son disconnect is a ham-fisted one, but Paul Newman and Melvyn Douglas make for excellent sparring partners.