There’s a lack of concreteness about the story and characters that render its reiteration of Christmas lessons utterly toothless.
A Simple Favor haphazardly vacillates between suburban satire, goofy comedy, and dark, twisted psychological thriller.
When it’s good, director Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters is funny, driven, sometimes even a bit scary.
Third time’s the charm for Shout! Factory, whose new Blu-ray box set marks the show’s most definitive home-video release yet.
It’s the sustained, full-bodied mania of Melissa McCarthy’s performance that anchors the film’s many winning blind-alley gags.
The inclusivity of this Melissa McCarthy showcase leaves plenty of room for the rest of the cast to stretch their comedic legs.
With the film, Melissa McCarthy definitively cements her status as a legitimate comic talent, leaving her co-star stumbling behind in her wake.
Typical extras, yes, but this is a strong transfer of an unusually humane American comedy that’s well worth owning.
It deftly navigates the ins and outs of platonic-pal sentimentality while reveling in the sublime pleasures of gross-out nastiness.
The film has an excellent pedigree, but when it poops it stinks of a Tim Allen movie.
Ben Tibber unaffectedly conveys the fear and wariness of a boy whose life has been nothing but a prolonged nightmare.