Scream VI barely resembles the film that birthed the franchise back in 1996.
It’s at a certain point toward the finale that this Scream becomes almost as drearily repetitious as the reboot culture that it skewers.
Independence Day: Resurgence does nothing satiric or fleetingly parodic with the notion of a world united in the midst of alien annihilation.
It can’t develop themes because it’s too busy disseminating information, and this extends to its main characters.
Even amid the troubling trend of remaking films that have barely collected a speck of dust, there are still movies that can surprise you.
The robbers in The Bling Ring aren’t the professionals scripted by John Huston, W.R. Burnett, and Ben Maddow in The Asphalt Jungle
So often is it rehashing moments already handled expertly by Raimi’s films that Amazing Spider-Man never takes flight.
Sylvain White’s adaptation of The Losers is the second comic-book movie misfire of 2010 and hopefully the last.
A superior two-disc set for Zodiac aficionados desperate to drown themselves in even more facts, figures, and conjecture.
A borderline shameful image transfer makes this first DVD edition of Zodiac something of a waste of time and money.
The film is backed by a solid character-based narrative foundation, as James Vanderbilt’s script never loses focus on his story’s human element.
As a vehicle for Dwayne Johnson’s wrestler alter ego, the essential action drive of the film is pure cotton candy.
Basic is just that: a mundane military thriller whose only goal is to appeal to an audience’s basic desire to be tricked into multiple corners.
I could probably make a better film in a coma, but I still don’t hear Revolution Studios knocking on my door.
Would people want to watch this story if it didn’t try to pull the rug out from under them every three minutes?
The film conjures images of studio heads wanting to numb young test audiences into submission.