The film is a vapid cocktail of big-budget technical mastery and lack of artistic ambition.
Like its characters, the show’s fourth season is trying to find a mellower way of being.
The series offers a surprisingly novel take on its source material, even if the pieces don’t fit together as neatly as they should.
This is the rare MCU movie of late that ends far stronger than it starts.
Whether it’s delving into the mysteries of human DNA or those of the perfect lasagna, the series doesn’t fail to charm.
Fast X is closer to fan fiction or self-parody than the real deal.
The film around Jordan plays like a lesson on justice being taught by self-aware actors.
Every serious narrative beat in the film is ultimately undercut by pro-forma storytelling, or by faux-improvised humor.
Brie Larson’s directorial debut is nothing so much as a series of quirks.
The film is an un-aerodynamic vehicle of uncertain design, packed carelessly with origin storylets and pop-cultural flotsam.
Danny Baron’s film awkwardly melds Bollywood romcom tropes with a half-hearted critique of the GMO industry.
The film’s onslaught of misery can look like a manipulative pile-on more than a candid assessment of strife.
Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire reduces the modus operandi of the action movie down to its starkest elements.
Every creature here that’s intended to burrow into our nightmares is less a wonder of imagination than of size.
Its self-consciously witty dialogue is meant to paper over gratuitous violence with a veneer of nonchalance.
Brie Larson, in Room, fights back tooth and claw from the brink just as much as the frontrunner in the Oscar race for best actor.
The film, never sensational or saccharine, is a tough but tender tribute to the creative power of maternal love.
Reminiscent of Woody Allen’s Manhattan Murder Mystery, it utilizes a pulp conceit as a shorthand for the regrets that bubble up in a marriage.
The script doesn’t revel in Amy’s quite harmless flaws, or at least examine them in the spirit of benevolence.
A shrug-worthy stab at picturing the contemporary black market, delving into a fantasyland of luxe coastal casinos and neon-lit bathhouses.