Few R-rated horror films released in 2023 are as vicious as this one is.
The series struggles to sensibly lay out the particulars of its post-apocalyptic feudalism.
Last night during the Golden Globe Awards, 20th Century Fox premiered a new trailer for the spy thriller Red Sparrow.
For a film about the violent overthrow of the status quo, Mockingjay – Part 2 is terminally conventional.
As a metaphor for the way we respond to the media, the film succeeds most when it revels in ambiguity.
Comical media images of women exploding provided outlets for spectators to laugh off the hazardous politics of everyday domesticity.
If The Hunger Games found its urgency in the horrors of kid-on-kid fatalities, Catching Fire finds it in the collapsing of a societal facade.
Aside from the ethics of 3D, it’s undeniable that Catching Fire will be at an economic disadvantage without it, losing as much as $4 per ticket in some cases.
The film’s form doesn’t distract from the content, and lets the characters speak for themselves.
Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, and Water for Elephants finds immense pleasure in juxtaposing extreme dimensionality with budding emotion.
While immensely entertaining, this is hard to consider very original or groundbreaking.
In the end, the decision to make the dark seekers wholly computer-generated proves ill-advised.
If you’re a keeper and not a renter, you’ll want to go for the two-disc DVD of the film.
Francis Lawrence is a skilled copycat, and his adeptness at creating a mood of otherworldly unease helps make up for his story’s familiarity.