What very good company Robert Redford keeps indeed.
The film is a lost-dog drama so insufferable it makes one wish its human characters would also run off and never return.
As larks go, it’s solid carpentry, lined with goodies for the nerd in all of us.
The Cabin in the Woods ultimately does exactly what it condemns, prizing schematic formula and ingenuity over real terror.
This category is historically a haven for the quirk, verve, and humor that can’t quite crack the tougher races.
Bruce Robinson’s The Rum Diary is an amorphous hodgepodge of a film that wants to be many things.
This is a would-be dark dramedy that fairly reeks of a self-congratulatory scent.
Let’s dispense with the central question posed by Friends with Benefits right away.
The film’s principal project is to trade in questionable racial characterization as a catalyst for its white protagonist’s personal fulfillment.
For its first third, Hall Pass zips along crudely but amiably on its sitcom-episode conceit.
An unusually beautiful horror film that understands that adolescence isn’t one fixed state of past tense.
When not indulging in nostalgic flipbook-style flashbacks, James Keach shoots his material with sub-sitcom flatness.
Let Me In is a great cover of Let the Right One In, though it raises the question: Does Matt Reeves have a style of his own?
Eat Pray Love’s viewpoint is a gauzy and narrow one, removing its rose-colored glasses only to better gaze at its own navel.
A remarkable image and sound presentation dignifies this DVD release of Hallström’s latest cheesefest.
As midwinter sudsers go, you could do a lot worse than Dear John.
We have to give this one to the veteran whose completely transformative performance enlivens the milquetoastiness of a film.
Like Nixon said, when Harvey Milk stabs Dan White in the back and all but blackmails George Moscone, it’s not illegal.
The film’s plot is uneven, splitting time between three protagonists who together feature zero endearing defining traits.
For such an ethnically conscious film, there are surprisingly only English subtitles.