Fast X is closer to fan fiction or self-parody than the real deal.
It lays bare that the franchise’s most radical asset is also its most conservative: an overriding emphasis on, above all else, the on-screen family.
Neveldine and Taylor’s great, widely under-appreciated Gamer returns to Blu-ray with an aptly superfluous third dimension.
The film is a predictably insufferable, self-congratulatory cash cow designed to be ingested and then happily discharged without a second thought.
Fast Five and I have something in common: We both have no use for the first four Fast and the Furious films.
No Strings Attached is a desperate movie, scrambling to patch its by-the-numbers story with hastily tacked-on bona fides.
Last year, for reasons I don’t entirely understand, Gucci Mane suddenly become a rap critic favorite.
This is a laborious bit of sci-fi grimness that dully updates The Running Man for the 21st century.
Ball Don’t Lie contumaciously refuses to play to its strengths.
This isn’t the album version of Crash so much as the album version of It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
The film’s meticulously composed cinematography proves almost as inert as its star’s grimacing tough-guy routine.
It’s nearly enough to make one wish for more Revolver. But not quite.
If Vince Vaughn isn’t being sarcastic and foul-mouthed, he’s probably not fulfilling his comedic potential.
The film is shrewd enough to refrain from overselling its considerable racial, socio-economic, and gender undercurrents.
Amazingly, this movie has been embraced by some of the country’s most prominent critics.
The image is a little more saturated than I remember seeing in the theater, but the stylized look comes across beautifully.
This year’s most celebrated Sundance smash, Hustle & Flow is little more than a calculated bid for Hollywood megabucks.
The artist who has really triumphed over adversity is Melissa Etheridge, who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer.
This unabashedly meaningless affair wholeheartedly subscribes to the more-is-better recipe for cinematic second installments