Hugo’s celebration of Méliès doesn’t celebrate form. Rather, it celebrates celebration.
Too often, the film teases big, wild comedic set pieces that end up deflating almost instantly.
It pulses with relevancy in a time when debates over authoritarianism, protests, and the necessity of radicalism are convulsing America.
The film doesn’t clear the CGI cobwebs or successfully anchor any of its new events with emotional heft.
The film doesn’t do much to satirize the spy genre, instead using its flimsy plot mostly as scaffolding for a barrage of jokes.
Everything in the film, songs included, is cranked to 11, the melodrama of it all soaring.
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted is low on character development, relying on flimsy, time-honored narrative arcs that audiences barely even notice anymore.
The Dictator doesn’t so much stir hot-button issues as showcase a great satirist off his game.
The Avengers will assemble for what may be the most overstuffed tent-pole ever, and Katy Perry will unleash the first movie that could actually give you cavities.
A disappointing slog from the artist formerly known as Martin Scorsese gets a predictably perfect high-def standing ovation.
Martin Scorsese’s affection for cinema is, of course, no surprise, and Hugo doesn’t shy away from stumping for the cause of his Film Foundation.
Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin’s Undefeated doesn’t really contain much in the way of genuine surprises.
Deeply condescending but often hilarious, this absolute mess of a film showcases the best and worst tendencies of Sacha Baron Cohen’s character and talents.
While watching Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest parody of American narcissism and bigotry, another cinematic prankster came to mind: Lars von Trier.
Larry Charles’s Brüno is like Milk, but with a talking penis.
Tim Burton draws the strongly structured material together to produce a black comedy and still blacker tragedy surging with jugular urgency.
The film’s vibrant animation and innocuously rollicking comedy remains endearing.
This is the definitive release of Tim Burton’s best movie since Ed Wood.
Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street gets a meaty DVD package fit for a cannibal.
Tim Burton lets loose with big bursts of stylized bloodletting, and achieves some extremely pretty effects as jugular veins explode all over the place.