Review: Dolphin Tale 2

Writer-director Charles Martin Smith’s tin ear for dialogue and contrived symbolism is as unmistakable as his enormous heart.

Review: The Identical

The film’s so preoccupied with being “inspirational” that it disastrously fails to evoke the allure of rock ‘n’ roll when it represented an erosion of racial and sexual barriers.

Review: Divergent

Neil Burger’s film transcends the déjà vu of its borrowed trappings but ironically sacrifices all momentum in favor of a long series of physical tests.

Review: Olympus Has Fallen

The film spends its first act establishing a flimsy emotional groundwork before gleefully taking a sledgehammer to it just seconds into act two.

Review: Helen

A PSA masquerading as an actual drama, Helen takes great pains to depict severe depression as not an emotional condition, but an illness.

Review: Bug

With Bug, William Friedkin uses light, color, and sound to evoke subjective experience.

Review: Heat

The protagonists of Mann’s universe have a sense of direction and an unyielding devotion to their chosen profession.