The film frustratingly shrouds Cage’s manic intensity in thick blankets of winking irony.
The script lacks for the variety needed to make more than just a tasting menu take flight.
One of the greatest action franchises of all time receives a terrific UHD spit-polish.
The film half-heartedly teeters between a kinetic action thriller and something a little more low-key.
Even the jokes that land mostly emphasize how complacent the series is to coast on its crassness.
The series takes on Catherine the Great with off-kilter comedy and startling poignancy.
In more than one sense, Justin Kurzel’s aggressively strange film queers the myth of the oft-lionized Ned Kelly.
The film falls back on the myth of modernity being born in the laps of practical, native-born American ingenuity.
The film is an all-too-fitting whimper of a conclusion to a franchise that never remotely fulfilled its potential.
The film preaches of the love of creative freedom, yet finds no original form of expression of its own.
Behold the Biopic, the Pillar of the Great Man!
The film’s florid screenplay affords Yorgos Lanthimos ample opportunity to assert his idiosyncratic worldview.
Danny Strong’s film suggests dramatic Tetris, and it leeches J.D. Salinger and his process of any mystery.
Unwittingly perhaps, Sand Castle reveals itself as a microcosm of America’s foreign policy in the Middle East.
It’s difficult to begrudge a film that has the good sense to put so much stock in Ben Kingsley’s hammy theatrics.
Drake Doremus’s film all comes down, simplistically and repeatedly, to “feelings make us feel alive.”
The issue with X-Men: Apocalypse is that Bryan Singer suggests so many possible directions to go in and still chooses the least interesting one.
Thanks to a strong performance by Nicholas Hoult, the film keeps threatening to become more dynamic and self-critical than its final result.
The gorgeous transfer fully honors the film’s distinctly amazing road-fever aesthetic.
The payoff is a huge and telling visual howler, summarizing the entire plot with a blithe indifference that will inevitably mirror the audience’s.