It’s a misnomer to label the climax of Steven C. Miller’s patently sick Arsenal an actual climax.
The film insufficiently connects the book’s prophecy with its present-day, real-world forms of realization.
This bold, imaginative, infuriatingly neglected work of expressionist agitprop receives the gorgeous transfer it deserves.
Chi-Raq is a Spike Lee joint in the urgent sociopolitical register of Radio Raheem’s boombox.
Everything here is needlessly bloated to accommodate its status as an international, prestige production.
Slacker and even less involving than the similarly terrible global kill-fest Last Knights, but easier to watch for the inadvertent camp value.
The film’s script, by Oren Moverman and Michael A. Lerner, is slavishly adherent to biopic formula and clunky affirmations of Brian Wilson’s legacy.
Drive Hard is the action-film equivalent of one of those folks who relentlessly speak of having it tough all over as they plan their third yearly vacation.
For these family units, incest seems the natural endgame of a merit system based on pernicious nepotism and inveterate ass-kissing.
Reclaim’s highly mechanized plot ensures that the film is over before it even ends.
The chasm that exists between being a working actress and being a household name is central to the drama.
Eugenio Mira thrills in watching Tom attempt to worm his way out of a most unusual hostage situation, synching his indulgences of style to the pianist’s wily physical maneuvering.
The premise might make sense, if only hypocritically, but the film abandons this already flimsy parody of macho pride disastrously at the last minute.
The title of the film is a pretty obvious double entendre, but it does efficiently convey the good intentions behind this scattershot production.
Taste and good intentions are only going to get one so far with a script this tone deaf and direction this ugly and monotonous.
With the film, Lee Daniels quietly pushes his talent for hashing out visceral, violent emotions into unexpected dramatic terrain.
Sits awkwardly between shoot ’em up and psychological thriller without offering the excitement of either.
Emma Roberts takes on the difficult task of convincing an audience to root for an obnoxious, self-obsessed aspiring poet.
For better or worse, Lee Daniels has managed to deliver one of the year’s most unforgettable movies.
We scrounged up an eclectic selection, boasting the likes of Clint Eastwood, Carl Weathers, Warren Beatty, and Eminem.