Meg 2 is well served by deliriously dialing up the camp factor.
For all the thrills provided by its pioneering pageantry, the film leaves you with a soul-nagging query: What price entertainment?
Paradise, as Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s film shows, is hell for those without the freedom to leave.
Reminiscence’s noir adornments inadvertently feel closer to parody than loving homage.
Like a traumatized psyche, it remains uncomfortably stuck in the past, replaying familiar events in an effort to empty them of terror.
The Meg resonates for the way its computer-generated beast makes way for the Statham-acious spotlight.
Despite the occasional cliché, this film mostly feels as messy as life, and as movingly complicated.
It’s an episode of Without a Trace: Jerusalem presented with all the panache of a Trinity Broadcasting Network TV special.
Gregory Poirier’s Missing is little more than a one-line elevator pitch with some fancy choreography and flashy scenery.
Cruel circumstance and greed are at least partly responsible for the ultimate lack of quality control here.
Colombiana is a self-righteous misstep from the usually reliable Luc Besson action-film factory.
Luc Besson’s pulp-fiction assembly line churns out another adequate ass-kicker with Colombiana.
A hallucinatory near-masterpiece and one of the best American war films produced in the 1990s.
After a string of underperforming self-penned duds, M. Night Shyamalan throws his hands up and sells out with The Last Airbender.
Wayne Kramer goes the Paul Haggis route with Crossing Over.
Would anyone want to sit through a film in which hunting and gathering takes precedence over defending one’s honor?
10,000 B.C.’s stereotypically primitive characters have less personality than Stanley Kubrick’s primeval 2001 apes.
Despite all that talent on display, Sunshine is a philosophical blank slate.
For all its reliable, over-the-top action, the Die Hard franchise’s success has always been predicated on its jokey self-deprecation.
The Fountain is an acquired taste I don’t really care to acquire. The soundtrack, though, is a different story.