Mothers and sons deserve an amiable comedy they can share, but this one proves to be faulty long before the requisite freeway breakdown.
Laughter and inanity go hand in hand in Akiva Schaffer’s The Watch.
It’s impossible not to look at Take This Waltz as anything other than fantasy.
The film doesn’t even express, as its title implies, “a fan’s hope,” since there’s nothing that needs to be hoped for.
The core framework of The Do-Deca-Pentathlon feels a bit too basic and familiar for Mark and Jay Duplass.
Stoking one’s cynicism over this category is the very real probability that Jonah Hill will be an Oscar nominee.
The poster is an intentionally drab pseudo-fusion of a milk carton ad and a supermarket service flyer.
Jonathan Levine’s film could use a lot more affliction and a lot less cure.
Jennifer Yuh’s Kung Fu Panda 2 is an exquisite looking but substantially hollow sequel to the smash hit from 2008.
The film marginally succeeds at perverting superhero stereotypes, and now it receives an expectedly excellent transfer from Sony.
Geek is its own language, and Paul speaks it fluently.
The clashing of tones and mixture of genres point to a lack of a singular artist at the wheel.
Judd Apatow’s reflexive, cock-obsessed picture posits Adam Sandler’s infantilism as something like an eternal condition.
Observe and Report is funny most precisely because it’s sad—as well as sick, skeezy, and just this side of scary.
Monsters vs. Aliens races about in search of the next witty zinger and for-adults-only pop-culture reference.
The film leaves the audience with perhaps the most ill-fitting coda in the annals of dumb youth comedies.
Get more bang for your buck with this two-disc edition, which is fudge-packed with plenty of titillating bonus features.
There’s plenty here to keep the attention of both stoners and cinephiles alike.
Kevin Smith and Seth Rogen were bound to work together.
Seeing as how our heroes are constantly getting high, the film toys with the idea that what we’re seeing is in Dale and Saul’s heads.