For a while, the film feels more like a supervillain origin story than a traditional slasher.
The Righteous Gemstones showcases a depth and maturity by spending more time excavating its evangelical empire.
As far as improvements go, Michael Myers’s revitalized brutality is arguably the only successful one that Halloween Kills makes.
While the film certainly lays out the dangers of technology run amok, it also sees its power to connect people.
The series is a compelling and humanizing study of its characters, the faith they profess, and the world they strive to proselytize.
There’s barely a single scare in this Halloween that isn’t undermined by some forced bit of funniness,
The only saving grace of the film’s mostly recycled horrors is how they deepen Michael Fassbender’s android David.
At the heart of Vice Principals is the mad desire to find respect, power, and likability.
The Angry Birds Movie is a lot of things, but none of them true to the app’s appeal.
Jared and Jerusha Hess remain committed to clotting up the screen with ostensibly charming “eccentricity.”
The film quickly settles into a depressingly one-note groove as a culture-clashing circus act.
After a while, the film’s sing-a-song-for-the-world vibe, so buoyantly optimistic at first, becomes grating and smug.
James Franco’s readiness in approaching famously abstract source material certainly doesn’t translate well into his directorial formalism, or, more appropriately, lack of formalism.
The fourth season of Eastbound & Down exudes a somber tone that flies in the face of the show’s typically rambunctious tendencies.
It’s disheartening that, despite some half-hearted overtures toward shifting the comedy paradigm, the filmmakers make little attempt to expand their comedic palette.
Some things never change.
30 Minutes or Less is a proudly stupid action comedy that’s awfully lethargic for all its slam-bang propulsion.
Pot comedies may not be rocket science, but a few more script revisions would have probably gone a long way here.
The film works as a revealing story of redemption for a “super villain” that can’t help but be a great father.
Due Date eventually settles into a rough if credible buddy film, one that at least washes off the stink of its initial nastiness.