Due Date eventually settles into a rough if credible buddy film, one that at least washes off the stink of its initial nastiness.
What I once hailed as the best movie in the history of the world (I was 13) is an uncomfortable thing that doesn’t rank with its creator’s best.
Iron Man 2 is a a pretty chewy comic-book movie, but it never feels self-important or dense.
I want to talk about an interesting comic book movie today, but first I guess I should talk about Iron Man 2.
Iron Man 2 is an example of subtraction by addition.
This is a disappointing DVD package of Ritchie’s slick but giddily inspired Sherlock Holmes reboot
Pop culture’s most enduring sleuth gets a welcome, modernized makeover in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes.
A solid DVD release of a terrible, terrible movie.
The film is a nasty, soulless celebration of everything cool and romantic about violence.
From the fidgety lead performances to the seemingly Ron Howard-inspired aesthetic, it’s rife with bad choices.
The Soloist is a crude fiasco that trivializes the very values it allegedly enshrines.
Joe Wright is prone to frustrating tendencies that are ascendant in The Soloist.
Even if people wanted to vote for a critics darling like Josh Brolin (Milk) in this category, to do so might seem akin to failing one of the Joker’s social experiments from The Dark Knight.
It’ll be a close one, but we say: En Ra Ha!
Ben Stiller was thinking about himself and his friends when he wrote this film, but he left out the crucial third party that defines comedy: the audience.
For nearly a decade, I’ve felt a certain allegiance to Robert Altman’s Short Cuts, and I’d never seen a single frame of it.
Iron Man confirms that Robert Downey Jr. is, like his director Jon Favreau, a comedian and entertainer at heart.
Jon Favreau recognizes the necessity of entrancing larger-than-life personalities, but his CG-ified artistry prevents the film from trully soaring.
A superior two-disc set for Zodiac aficionados desperate to drown themselves in even more facts, figures, and conjecture.
It’s as if director Poll and screenwriter Gustin Nash watched Rushmore on a loop and tried to make it palatable to the mall crowd.