When in doubt, go with the star of the biopic.
Living has the feel of a film afraid to fully step out of its predecessor’s giant shadow.
The Man Who Fell to Earth fails to recognize the key to the power of its source material: its peculiarity.
The film unites its seemingly disparate strands of somber drama and deadpan comedy into a surprisingly cohesive whole.
So many grandiose tactics portend a grander revelation than the film’s otherwise low-key three-hander delivers.
This lively adaptation plays up the novel’s more farcical elements, granting it a snappy, rhythmic pace.
The film’s repetitive and lifeless dialogue robs otherwise charismatic performers of distinguishing characteristics.
Isabel Coixet’s intermittent visual flourishes do little to amplify the stakes of her low-key narrative.
Initially colorful, the screenplay’s lurid and overripe dialogue eventually grinds the film to a halt.
It intimately focuses on its main character’s personal triumphs and refuses to fall into heavy-handed polemicism.
Like its predecessor, John Madden’s film is a charming example of what great actors can do with mediocre material.
The film the tough true story has spawned is as formulaically cheery, didactically “uplifting,” and fundamentally false as a Disney sports movie.
A surprisingly thoughtful romantic comedy that shirks a great deal of reason and consequence in the name of love.
This epic waste of $190 million plunders the grab bag of overused plotlines, failing to put its own stamp on much of anything.
The film is a redressing of Paul Verhoeven’s version, in sanitized, soulless textiles spun from the sort of endless CGI spool a $200 million budget can provide.
It panders to viewers by diluting its lesson, which teaches that some comfort zones can only be truly abandoned on the other side of the world.
Wrath of the Titans sputters and coughs on the fumes of its own inevitability.
This yuletide fable that boasts Aardman Animation’s peerless mix of whip-smart comedy and cheery heart.
Rango receives an excellent audio/visual treatment and some solid extras from Paramount.
Rango turns an assembly line of classic western themes and iconography into a bustlingly fresh genre ecosystem.