Comical media images of women exploding provided outlets for spectators to laugh off the hazardous politics of everyday domesticity.
Paul Schrader and Bret Easton Ellis don’t have the sense of play this kind of narrative of one-upmanship requires, as we’re never allowed to enjoy the characters’ misdeeds.
The robbers in The Bling Ring aren’t the professionals scripted by John Huston, W.R. Burnett, and Ben Maddow in The Asphalt Jungle
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Coppola’s fascination with the young and over-privileged reaches a logical plateau with The Bling Ring.
Rodriguez loves grindhouse cinema, but you’d never know it from Machete, which seems more interested in mockery than homage.
Robert Rodriguez’s films are so busy chuckling at their own supposed audacity that there’s no need for viewers to join in the revelry.
Jared Leto looks like he’s eaten his 30 Seconds to Mars bandmates in Chapter 27.
I Know Who Killed Me at times suggests a hack’s attempt at a Lynch film.
This is a film that posits “I love you” as the quick-fix remedy for its characters’ myriad, deeply rooted grievances.
Bobby is not better than JFK but it is not completely without value.
Bobby is an overly earnest bit of hero worship buried amidst an especially pedestrian, multi-narrative melodrama.
The film is an Oliver Stone panorama by way of The Love Boat.
Nowhere near Robert Altman’s best, but we’re still lucky to have it.
Just My Luck’s throwback quickly goes from chintzy to rotten.
Throughout, the graceful camera, the movement of characters, and the overlapping voices collectively convey a genial sense of place.
For all the so-called weighty subject matter, there’s not much meat on these bones.
It’s easy to imagine a better Herbie: Fully Loaded had Grace Jones’s “Sex Drive” blared during the film’s racing sequences.
Despite being affectionately known as the Love Bug, Herbie is more of a horny pest in Herbie: Fully Loaded.
You’d think that with an album title like Speak, Lohan would actually have something to say.