Zwick uses a popular artistic mode to stake out a moral and political stance that, if not radical, is at least forceful.
It’s impossible to take it seriously as anything other than an Abercrombie & Fitch ad posing as a political thriller.
With Never Go Back, the Jack Reacher franchise is beginning to suggest NCIS remade on the big screen.
It’s best appreciated as a tragicomic profile of a man whose extraordinary talent was undermined by the political reality in which he was enmeshed.
Do we even need to talk about Dogtooth’s chances?
Love & Other Drugs is an unwieldy mélange of genres and agendas, alternately gutsy and lamentable.
A well-meaning dud, the film’s only defiance is testing its audience’s patience.
Edward Zwick has crafted over two hours of repeatedly bad ideas.
Apocalypto finds Mel Gibson working in the same nyuk-nyuk vein that’s sustained him for over 25 years.
This “event” picture makes sense in this culture where going to the movies has become not unlike patronizing an arena sport.
The audio and video transfer is so good that you may forget just how offensive the film is.
The film is content to be a squishy, serious-minded lesson about embracing one’s heritage and cherishing the virtues of valor and respect.