Given its hero’s imperviousness, the film’s chaotically edited action sequences tend to be devoid of suspense.
It’s an imagination-starved redo of The Happening crossbred with a more malevolent strain of zombie-flick DNA.
Villeneuve’s moving yet disappointingly cautious mind-bender is accorded a robustly beautiful transfer.
Its searching images counterpoint the hyper-articulate methodology of its characters’ sense of uncertainty.
With Arrival, Villeneuve communicates the wonder of a Steven Spielberg alien movie within a decidedly hard sci-fi milieu.
Few horror films are as insistent about the trauma mental illness inflicts on families as Lights Out.
Hours isn’t based on a true story, but it makes a considerable effort to convince us that it could have been.
The ensemble here is mostly padded out with anonymous Norwegians acting as disposable creature fodder.
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.
This new take on A Nightmare on Elm Street gives a famous movie boogeyman an explicit psychological makeover
Rather than add to a memorable canon of images, all visions of helplessness, this film simply replicates them.