Some familiar elements are missing from the series, but it can still deliver a distinct brand of wry humor.
Maybe it’s not the worst thing in the world that Storks doesn’t take many cues from Pixar’s tear-jerking playbook.
Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville reinforce the very circumstances they outwardly condemn.
For all the brawn on display, the film never slows down to take in the thrill and talent of hand-to-hand combat.
Partners is bad even by most lawyer-joke standards, and the writing’s falseness and laziness carries over to the performances.
Is everyone ready for Mark Wahlberg to tap in with another test run of his wooden “surprise face”?
That this retrograde “straight talk” managed to emerge on screen as a reasonably genial ensemble comedy speaks to the strength of its performers.
With dubious scruples, and much Broadway-style caterwauling, the film imagines what The Wizard of Oz would look like with a should-have-gone-straight-to-video chimney on her.
Its knack for extracting quiet beauty from all the mayhem lends Boss’s best scenes the precision and artistry of a monstrous ballet.
If Kate’s character-friendly surname caught your eyes, keep rolling them.
It tonally aims for, and somewhat achieves, a lurid mix between a juicy morality tale and Boogie Nights’s fetish for nostalgia.
Hank is a multi-camera sitcom shot on a cheap-looking set with a forgettable supporting cast speaking rarely funny dialogue.
Toy Story 2 errs on the side of sweet and light.
Like its gifted if excitable protagonists, Fame would have done well to stay in the classroom a bit more.
Swing Vote is as tired as its stunt of casting a dozen cable-news blowhards as themselves.
Picking the five best Simpsons episodes is well-nigh impossible.
Producer Bob Yari returns to the Crash well with Even Money and comes up with a turgid PSA about the dangers of gambling.
Prepared to be stunned, because Brett Ratner does not completely sully your beloved mutants-versus-the-world franchise.
You saw Brother Bear in theaters but skipped the truly subversive Teacher’s Pet? Here’s your chance to fix that.
When Spot’s desire is granted by an eeeeeevil scientist, the film suddenly morphs into a dissatisfying and uncomfortable concoction.