The episode’s emotional epicenter is Bobby Briggs, now white-haired and working as a deputy for the department.
Pat Healy’s depiction of a man willing to corrode his entire life to provide for his wife and kid feels true despite the script’s silliest moments.
Whatever predictable plot the film tries to unfold never lives up to the excitement of its conceptual gimmick.
Like it or not, Cheap Thrills does evince a consistent vision, however sophomoric.
A beautiful transfer by Dark Sky Films of one of the best horror films of the last few years.
Ti West depicts a world continuously impinged on by the past, a realm we can admire but never actually enter.
The film is just an intermittently promising bit of schlock, nothing more and nothing less.
Our long national lousy-horror-remake nightmare has finally—or at least temporarily—ended.
The film panders to those short on memory as if its central inspiration, Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, were just released last week.
The film will make you pine for a poison apple.
From Aquamarine to Hoot to Stick It, 2006 is turning out to be a banner year for the tweener-geared film.
Sweet, inventive little touches like the talking starfishes Aquamarine uses for earrings work to patch in the lazy potholes.
Sleepover will do for tween girls what Max Keeble’s Big Move did for prepubescent boys: get them beat up at school.