Payne’s defenders might call his often acidic touch Swiftian, though it comes off more toothlessly noncommittal.
Ben Hickernell’s lighthearted Backwards at least begins with the seeds of something dark.
The series isn’t jaw-droppingly hilarious, but the writing is self-assured and full of punchy, Tweetable one-liners.
The film is a low-rent neo-noir propped up by descriptions of, rather than depictions of, sexual kink.
Stolen takes an interesting premise and turns it into an unforgivably predictable and flimsy genre hybrid.
If nothing else, Stolen gives viewers a chance to see James Van Der Beek made up into a sneering, splotch-faced septuagenarian.
Formosa Betrayed’s an appropriate movie for America’s current political climate.
Kevin Smith’s clever in-joke movie gets an anemic Blu-ray release.
Rules of Attraction is less a film than a queasy collection of vignettes that both mourn and mock teen anomie.
The cows have it hard in Texas Rangers, a.k.a. Dude, Where’s My Cattle?
Kevin Smith’s latest comedy is compact, rambling, and consistently funny.