Mike Flanagan reimagines Poe’s oeuvre as a nimble, tonally capacious collection of fables.
The fundamental ineptness of Gunpowder Milkshake appears to be a consequence of the exponentially swelling glut of streaming options.
The film creates an incestuous atmosphere that’s reminiscent of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe.
Mike Flanagan’s Gerald’s Game is the rare Stephen King adaptation to be undone by the story itself.
Bart Freundlich alternates somewhat arbitrarily between his various plots, leaving a lot of loose ends in the process.
The Space Between Us is simply disappointing when it isn’t trying to browbeat its audience into emotional submission.
In the film, the biggest earthquake in recorded history is less natural disaster than divorce negotiation process.
Patrick Stewart’s performance is practically an argument for Stephen Belber to take the actor on the road as a one-man spoken-word act.
Its greatest act of public service is the outrageously comforting notion that honest and humane politicians might actually exist.
The case-of-the-week A-plot of “Cut Ties,” the second episode of Justified’s third season, doesn’t have much meat on it.
The theme of bloodlines newly woven and long-kindred continues to run through Justified like an un-damable river.
One of Jim Carrey’s weakest efforts gets an admittedly attentive Blu-ray treatment.
Drugs make midlife crises bearable! But not really! Such is the profundity of I Melt with You,
The Mighty Macs is a film from another planet.
The once boundlessly energetic Jim Carrey is no longer trying so hard to impress viewers with his hyper brand of slapstick.
The primary tactic in Snyder’s repertoire is decontextualization.
Zack Snyder offers a peek inside his head, which turns out to be a vomatorium of pop culture’s every geeky element.
Few sequels are less warranted than Elektra Luxx, a follow-up to 2009’s multi-character mess Women in Trouble.
This is a so-painful-it’s-funny comedy about the increasingly heavy pressures of modern-day middle-class existence.
The fourth season of Californication proves there can indeed be too much of a good thing.