Howard’s cutely innocuous sci-fi tale of an alien race helping elderly white people arrives in an adequate Blu-ray package.
A geriatric summer adventure in which the appearance of action takes the place of the real thing.
Dear AMPAS directors’ branch, we’re done now.
Ron Howard’s film is a trivial afterword to a historical footnote.
Parenthood is a four-family, four-hankie weepie in which most of the characters talk like screenwriters.
Its very existence means “the best film Ron Howard directed” is, lamentably, not a backhanded compliment.
Another distasteful Ron Howard production impeccably preserved on DVD.
Can’t you feel it all starting to crumble around them?
Ron Howard’s adaptation of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code is a marriage made in mediocrity.
Time and again, Ron Howard aggressively goes for the syrupy jugular rather than allowing his inherently poignant story to throw its own punches.
This amusingly introspective family film, despite its self-analytical conceit, never devolves into cloying narcissism.
Ron Howard’s The Missing announces its (corporate) intentions right from the start.
There are enough features on Universal’s disc to make anyone crazy.
A Beautiful Mind is like a brick to the head to anyone who ever winced at the utterance of “infinity plus one.”