Writer-director Jason Lei Howden’s humor might have been tolerable if his film was at least reasonably imaginative.
The moments in which the film’s blockbuster stars play memorably against type are quickly subsumed by the ugly chaos of the action.
The film is unable to reconcile a desire to ridicule its own artifice with constant attempts to foster genuine empathy and dramatic tension.
It infuses an outdoorsy survival tale and a coming-of-age story of friendship with Taika Waititi’s penchant for distaff flakiness.
Duchovny has some wonderful moments in the prior episodes of the season, but this is the first time this season that he’s really come to play.
It sympathetically renders the small humiliations and inconveniences of life as an old-world vampire struggling with modernity.
You don’t really need to buy the complete DVD set of Flight of the Conchords as long as YouTube’s still working.
Pirate Radio is based in reality the way a kite is based wherever its holder is standing at the moment.
Writer-director Richard Curtis is about as rock ‘n’ roll as the average great-grandmother.
As it is in rock ‘n’ roll, so it is in comedy: Quiet is the new loud.
That stink emanating from the vicinity of Yes Man is desperation.