Another opening-night gala screening, another crapshoot.
Intended, it seems, as a sharp political satire, Butter achieves something a little sloppier and harder to pin down.
The film folds narratives on top of narratives in a vain attempt to mask the fact that there’s nothing to read between its graceless lines.
This dry-as-dust enterprise bogs down in an almost total lack of energy and imagination that no amount of faux earnestness can overcome.
There are approximately 12 films that could have been made from the various story strands found in this ensemble thriller.
There’s artistry here, but isn’t it ironic that the title’s blatant essence is the poster’s weakest trait?
Andrew Niccol returns to the eugenics-fostered class dynamics of Gattaca with In Time.
The Change-Up begins at the absolute bottom so it can only ascend thereafter.
Cowboys & Aliens mashes up genres with a staunch dedication to getting everything wrong.
Call it a guilty pleasure, if you must, but TRON: Legacy is the sort of spectacle that makes people go to the movies and it looks spectacular on Blu-ray.
Haggis never explores the compromises and sacrifices that Liam Neeson’s terrific cameo prepares us for.
This TRON reboot is a fleet, fantastic-looking bit of old code.
Socio-political preaching takes a backseat to pulse-pounding suspense in The Next Three Days.
The wannabe-Strung aesthetics reveal the project’s underlying style-over-substance concerns.
This bibilical buddy comedy often makes you wish that 2001: A Space Odyssey’s dawn-of-man apes had never picked up that bone.
It’s tempting to write off The Black Donnellys as The Sopranos Lite.
With Turistas, John Stockwell cements his status as contemporary Hollywood’s most accomplished exhibitor of the female behind.