What will make it essential for future generations isn’t mere flashpoint topicality, but the way it aligns an old struggle with a current one.
On Nobody’s Smiling, a rejuvenated Common returns to the war-torn streets of Southside Chicago as a wise and focused veteran.
Allegedly containing the largest cast in history, Movie 43’s cornucopia of A- and B-listers never come together as a true ensemble.
In many ways, LUV operates like an urban companion piece to Beasts of the Southern Wild.
Sister is another meditation on the viewpoint of children in an alienating adult world.
The reunion of Common and No I.D. sounds terrific, though the latter impresses more frequently.
The krill subplot is even thinner than the penguins’, to the point where it scarcely has any reason to exist.
If you want hits, Go! packs them in great quantity.
The big-studio romantic comedy has become so intractably set in its ways that there’s no longer hope for true innovation.
Shawn Levy’s direction is slapdash and stolid, but it’s the material that’s truly busted.
Judgment Day finally happens in Terminator Salvation, and as Sarah Connor predicted, anybody not wearing two-million sunblock has a really bad day.
Does anyone want to party with Common?
Who needs a director’s commentary with this much bonus material?
The film’s empty, arousing thrills are quick, fierce, and self-contained.
Finding Forever is something to be admired, even if it is uneven.
Smokin’ Aces is a handsome and entertaining 108 minutes, but it’s not a good movie, and it’s difficult to get at why.
This multi-character crime saga is even less appealing than watching televised poker.
Michel Gondry’s film is a casual mix of live hip-hop and man-on-the-street stand-up.
Be sounds like Common’s teaching from the playbook of a college dropout.
Common channels the ghosts of Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison to achieve a post-gangsta rap hybrid unlike anything else out today.