Andy Goddard’s film clumsily superimposes a frenzied, completely fictional spy adventure onto a fascinating fragment of pre-war history.
Get Duked! offers enough evidence to suggest that Ninian Doff may be a new comedic voice to look out for.
Everything here wraps up as tidily as it does in your average Hallmark Channel movie.
In the end, the film is unable to bridge the gap between the emotions it elicits and the messages it imparts.
The second half’s series of hollow visual spectacles foreground the film as a corporate product.
By privileging the white characters in its narrative, Victoria & Abdul exposes itself as insidiously hypocritical.
NBC’s Hannibal ran for three seasons, but its concept called for at least twice as many.
Riffing on early portions of Thomas Harris’s novel of the same name, Hannibal is similarly liberated by its protagonist’s unmasking.
The Unbelievers isn’t as galvanizing as it would like to be.
Much like the clownish mask of its iniquitous protagonist, the show demands further reconstructive work to mend its various glaring imperfections.
Cars 2, even more than its predecessor, is the Pixar movie that’s safe to hate.
The best thing about the show’s third season is the addition of Eddie Izzard as psychology professor Dr. Hattaras.
This is a so-painful-it’s-funny comedy about the increasingly heavy pressures of modern-day middle-class existence.
The film is a quaint but inane portrait of a modern-day Big Apple family.
Writer-director Sally Potter seems curiously entertained by the most pedestrian performances.
Incongruous vocal intonations aren’t even the most significant problem plaguing Bryan Singer’s film.
Whether comparing it to the output of Pixar and DreamWorks or judging it on its own lesser terms, Igor feels chintzy and imitative.
Julie Taymor is clearly trying hard to gussy up a screenplay that plays more like The Wonder Years without the cultural insight.
The characters in John Turturro’s directorial efforts have a yen for treating choleric fits like arias.
To call the Ocean’s films frivolous would be kind, implying that these arduous concoctions are somehow light on their proverbial feet.