As a peek into the relationship between sports, media and capitalism, National Champions feels like a beginner’s playbook.
Throughout, J.K. Simmons invents the film with a primordial physicality of loneliness and self-loathing.
At the center of the film is a conservative lesson that asks us to abide by society’s capitalistic impulses.
The film is an artless, puerile shadow of the likes of Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg’s Cornetto trilogy.
Pat Healy’s depiction of a man willing to corrode his entire life to provide for his wife and kid feels true despite the script’s silliest moments.
The film’s half-hearted plea for responsibility in the news smacks of plain pandering.
He’s back. No, not just Ron Burgundy, but The Mustache.
Like it or not, Cheap Thrills does evince a consistent vision, however sophomoric.
A Haunted House not only panders to, but encourages the same moviemaking impulses it’s supposedly satirizing.
Far more frustrating than the film’s banally conventional plot structure is its characters’ lack of depth.
Both literally and figuratively, Piranha 3DD lacks guts.
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy is a tattered work of transparent outlandishness.
There’s a gallows humor to the death sequences that giddily invites our applause, but the film also wants us to be appalled by how and when death can come to us.
Dax Shepard delivers an I’m Still Here-style mockumentary of staggering incompetence with Brother’s Justice.
Hank is a multi-camera sitcom shot on a cheap-looking set with a forgettable supporting cast speaking rarely funny dialogue.
Renée Zellweger makes a concerted effort portraying Ann as charming and sympathetic even as the narrative fails to justify either quality.
Thoroughly rehashed and oddly misanthropic, The Goods, frankly, doesn’t deliver the goods.
Semi-Pro is perhaps the feeblest entry in the Will Ferrell Sports Comedy canon.
Congratulations to Christopher Walken for finally delivering a performance that’s a parody of a parody of himself.
The only thing the extras on this disc do not address is how the hype surrounding this horrible picture failed to translate into box dollars.