This flashy legal melodrama is too flabby to deliver the walloping blow that it needs.
They Cloned Tyrone is a satirical science-fiction story styled as a Blaxploitation film.
Aside from the red stuff, the film is scarcely interested in what’s inside its characters.
Day Shift’s first half is an unexpectedly focused, consistent pleasure, while the second sags under the weight of recycled set pieces.
There’s no attempt to hide that the film is pure fan service, a greatest-hits mashup of Spider-Man’s cinematic legacy.
Soul gets a reference-quality presentation, but the supplements package (and packaging) lacks in, well, soulfulness.
In a troubling reversal from Pixar films past, it’s kids who will have to do the most heavy lifting to keep up here.
The film is an unwieldy array of muddled ideas that never gel together into a cohesive whole.
The film around Jordan plays like a lesson on justice being taught by self-aware actors.
Robin Hood’s shameless silliness only takes it so far, as the film is frequently undermined by Otto Bathurst’s wobbly direction.
The technical sophistication of Edgar Wright’s artistry reaches new heights with this heist-cum-musical.
It makes John Huston’s elephantine, synthetically charismatic 1982 adaptation look like a Minnelliesque model of focus and concision.
If your answer to the question “When are rape jokes funny?” is anything aside from “never,” the good news is that you may still find a lot to hoot over throughout the film.
Sony’s insistent to let fans have their webs and sling them too and the high-flying 4K Blu-ray does precisely that.
Marc Webb proves unwilling, or incapable, of making this unwieldy story feel like anything but a deluge of backstory.
The movie has less actual nutritional value than 10 bowls of crushed Froot Loops dust.
Roland Emmerich makes love of country into a thing of unabashed hokum, which bleeds through every nook of this overstuffed jumble and leaves no character untouched.
Certainly a zesty night at the movies, but underneath the film’s mock pretensions is a relatively conventional revenge thriller.
White House Down looks to be the peak of Roland Emmerich’s violent affair with 1600 Penn.
Lately for Quentin Tarantino, it’s all about scar tissue.