The film hits its plot milestones as fast as humanly possible, cohesion or depth be damned.
The film could be taken as an intentional travesty of the superhero genre, if only it weren’t so tortuously tedious.
Often divertingly colorful and busy to a fault, Aquaman seems to dare us to mock the world of comics’ most risible superhero.
A story of filth and fury and, eventually, of placidity and peace, Her Smell is Alex Ross Perry’s most chaotic and unmuffled film—until it isn’t.
When its tone slides firmly back into the murk, it’s hard not to see DC’s notion of heroism as borderline nihilistic.
It’s hard to tell who’s being lampooned and who’s being treated with sincerity at any given point.
The film’s pervasive flashbacks to childhood abuse and misbehavior come to feel manipulative and unnecessary.
One doesn’t doubt the filmmakers’ empathy for Lili even as one questions its sentimentality.
With this immaculate Blu-ray transfer, you’re invited to indulge the film’s multitudinous pleasures without shame or judgment.
Magic Mike XXL plays like the party bus whose road was charitably paved.
McG’s technical skill can’t quite overcome the story’s lazy sense of humor and incomprehensible plotting.
The tawdriness of the 2010 film has been tempered substantially in Machete Kills.
This supposedly down-and-dirty corporate espionage thriller undercuts itself at nearly every turn by shunning any potential relevancy.
Bruce Robinson’s The Rum Diary is an amorphous hodgepodge of a film that wants to be many things.
Pity that John Carpenter chose to direct as Disco Stu, as the look of The Ward suggests a lame dad trying to get with the times.
Drive Angry is Patrick Lussier’s latest unambitious but satisfying sleazefest.
The film is like most modern Hollywood horror-thriller hybrids in structure and color scheme, only duller.
A high-concept premise too-tidily comments on its underlying subject matter in The Joneses.
Like its insane papa-via-marriage, Nelson McCormick’s The Stepfather remake is a shabby substitute for its original.
Call it Land of the Dull.