Like Vice before it, the film too often uses satire as a tool of castigation rather than as a means of truly taking on the status quo.
After winning his second DGA award last night, there’s no reason to believe that Cuarón won’t complete the hat trick at the Oscars.
Three years after he hit paydirt and a bonanza of critical acclaim for The Big Short, Adam McKay is back with Vice.
An Oscar for Alejandro González Iñárritu is a reward for the return on the industry’s investment.
The film’s fourth-wall-breaking wags a finger at the perceived facile nature of celebrity-driven mass culture even as it ultimately condescends to audiences.
Compounding the leaden pace are the shoehorned references that connect the film to the continuity of the Marvel universe.
The film’s half-hearted plea for responsibility in the news smacks of plain pandering.
The Other Guys isn’t simply a straight Cop Out-style parody.
Eastbound & Down is myopic, wasting its focus on shortsighted laughs rather than giving us something we have not seen before.
Adam McKay and Will Ferrell’s latest generally succeeds at having its cake and devouring it too.
A nutty collection of features highlight this tight Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Boby DVD.
To the film’s credit, the inevitable third-act competition is staged to bring forward the absurd humor that eluded Days of Thunder.
The film is primarily founded on the premise that there’s nothing funnier than dialogue strewn with ludicrously illogical lines.