Justin Lin strives to approximate something like Ocean’s Eleven for petrosexuals.
An outrageous true-life tale that’s perfectly suited to director Michael Bay’s insanely overblown stylistic and thematic temperament.
Instead of long takes, which are lovingly utilized in Step Up 3D, Jon M. Chu opts for increasing volatility in the editing room.
A certain tendency of the American cinema is to confuse dramatic seriousness with moral seriousness.
The specter of George Lucas looms large over Journey 2: The Mysteries Island.
Fast Five and I have something in common: We both have no use for the first four Fast and the Furious films.
Faster is what would happen if Michael Bay channeled one of Donald Westlake’s Parker novels.
It’s plain to see why 20th Century Fox dumped the film in January.
Planet 51 never soars to the boundless heights, and skies, that its animation so fantastically illustrates.
Give me Speed Racer instead—hell, even Wicked Stepmother.
The film brings to mind a creaky, rusty theme park ride that one forbids their children from riding lest they contract tetanus.
Most of the action-movie stuff, particularly an endless plane-and-car chase climax, is astoundingly played straight.
That Nina Davenport wants to draw parallels to her own situation is the very definition of presumptuousness.
The film occasionally verges on damning its subject for being a cagey, arrogant, single-minded narcissist, but hey, that’s showbiz.
Teen horniness is not a crime but Southland Tales is.
This is a wild movie on a very large scale that’s bound to alienate a lot of people.
If Donnie Darko was Richard Kelly’s Eraserhead, then maybe Southland Tales is his Dune.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is a likeable enough actor, but a clichéd family film like The Game Plan puts that charm to the test.
The predictably heavy metal-scored film’s primary directive is to recreate the mindless mayhem of its joystick-controlled roots.
This bumbling exercise in redundant replication is as disagreeably lukewarm as a heavily trafficked municipal baby pool.