Stephen Fung’s pop-up graphics and jazzy fight scenes feel part of an unwieldy mix in which the director just throws whatever half-baked conceits up on the screen he feels like.
Hansel & Gretel’s idea of a gut-busting punchline is to pepper unusually flippant dialogue with the word “fuck.”
Kim Jee-woon makes savvy use of Schwarzenegger as both a newly world-weary figure and, more frequently, the ever-reluctant hero.
Not much in the way of packaging or extras. But, then, this is the kind of disc you keep laying around the living room like a coaster.
Some of cinema’s most awesome sights are those that envision our future.
Who cares about subpar computer-generated work when Guy Pearce is a one-man cartoon badass spectacle all to himself?
Every scene is slowed to a crawl to emphasize the pounding doom, while the music ratchets the dread up even further.
Despite its panoply of clichés, the film does work up some goodwill once you accept it on its almost defiantly generic, low-stakes terms.
You’ll wish it stuck with Reeves’s unlikely casting as Lopakhin in the Chekhov play as its focus rather than just a cutesy twist.
Fargo is the Coens’ most ice-cold satire, but also features its warmest character.
It homes in on the quotidian small talk characteristic of people who define themselves by defining themselves.
The film is beholden to high-concept gobbledygook that has almost no bearing on its mystery’s conclusion
If we’re lucky, Premonition may not exist come tomorrow morning.
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A point emerges, this notion that we’re all born good, but it’s not one that gets a concerned workout.
Strictly for little piggies with houses made of straw.
Like Lost, the show seems predicated on an unsustainable premise.
In Terry Gilliam’s phantasmagoric cosmos, the earthly and the imaginary coexist in semi-harmony.
If you’re a keeper and not a renter, you’ll want to go for the two-disc DVD of the film.
Some of Birth’s brighter sequences readily show off the beautiful textures of Harris Savides’s incredible cinematography, but the darker sequences aren’t very flattering.