Review: Dog Days

Dog Days remains committed to coloring within the lines of established tropes in the animal-centric family film.

Review: The Layover

It was clearly conceived by men who have no interest in approaching female friendships with any degree of complexity, curiosity, or respect.

Review: Sex Tape

By the time a blackmailing plot is introduced, the film seems to be surviving solely on the fumes of curse words and frequent shots of Jason Segal and Cameron Diaz’s backsides.

Review: Hell Baby

Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon display a freewheelin’ sense of invention that should be watched closely.

Review: The Way, Way Back

Praises the electric carelessness of teenage angst while depicting it as if it were ultimately no more exciting, though no less pleasant, than an hour in the wave pool.

Review: Rapture-Palooza

Its views on organized religion are so halfhearted and perfunctory as to make Kevin Smith’s Dogma seem like a veritable master’s class in theistic studies.

Review: Pain & Gain

An outrageous true-life tale that’s perfectly suited to director Michael Bay’s insanely overblown stylistic and thematic temperament.

Review: Butter

Intended, it seems, as a sharp political satire, Butter achieves something a little sloppier and harder to pin down.