Christopher Nolan’s film willfully and startlingly dispenses with the plodding routines of the average biopic.
If Ice Age: Collision Course gleefully fails at being a history lesson, at least it offers an energetic recess from reality.
Remarkably, the highlight of Benson Lee’s film, essentially a fiction reboot of his Planet B-Boy, isn’t the scene where Chris Brown gets punched in the face.
It feeds the warrior fantasies of adolescent boys with a testosterone-heavy tale of a war free of moral complications.
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Horror films set in confined locales require airtight logistical construction, and ATM comes up short on that front.
Score a point against imaginative kiddie fare.
What Goes Up’s point that Americans create icons to fulfill their own screwy needs is made through contrived and nonsensical plotting.
A good-but-not-great movie gets a good-but-not-great DVD treatment. Rolling papers not included.
The filmmakers rest their depressive character study on the able shoulders of actor Michael Rapaport.
Hal Haberman and Jeremy Passmore’s story is fit for a 15-minute short rather than a feature-length narrative.
Give me Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise instead.
It delivers a rather predictable indie coming-of-age narrative, and Levine’s music video-ish sentimentality doesn’t help alleviate such familiarity.
Is the golden age of Judd Apatow already waning?
Is this film trying to say something to Dubya’s base with all this bibilical imagery?
While this DVD edition does justice to the film’s sinister color scheme, the cast and crew commentary leaves much to be desired.
Mean Creek slots itself nicely in that catalog of macabre coming-of-age stories like River’s Edge and Stand by Me.
A day or two in the lives of some of the most annoying people in the world, filmed with equally devil-may-care obnoxiousness.
The lack of narrative sobriety and the director’s shallow stylistic copycatting are the film’s ultimate undoing.