Amy Heckerling’s Vamps is awash in pop-cultural, cinematic, and historical references.
The Cold Light of Day relates more or less the same story as Robert Rodriguez’s family-friendly Spy Kids.
Its greatest act of public service is the outrageously comforting notion that honest and humane politicians might actually exist.
Red Lights implodes so spectacularly that it’s almost worth the price of admission just to see what all the fuss is about.
These famous fights to the death should, together, sate even the bloodthirstiest film fans.
If Robert Altman had made a cop drama, it might have looked and sounded like Rampart.
Odds are John Singleton doesn’t know he’s made one of the funniest films of the year.
Geek is its own language, and Paul speaks it fluently.
The film is a noisier but arguably less idiosyncratic experience than attending an actual Midwestern business convention.
Avatar looks more like a cartoon on the small screen than it did in theaters, but anyone who owns a Pixar film on video knows that isn’t meant as a slam.
You Again’s shallow hysteria barely counts as existential lip service.
Avatar is a steroidal hodgepodge of been-there, done-that melodrama and paper-thin present-day allusions.
Sigourney Weaver (as the thinking leg-man’s ideal woman) makes a pretty good case for the benefits of the elite class.
We’re past the tipping point where the faithfulness to the source material has unquestionably revealed its shortcomings.
The film’s plot is uneven, splitting time between three protagonists who together feature zero endearing defining traits.
Pixar pulls out all the stops for this three-disc special edition of WALL·E.
Baby Mama confirms that if Tina Fey is in something she didn’t write herself, it just ain’t funny.
This latest Pixar production finds cute ways of tipping its hat to Christian creation and human record.
Until 24 is back on the air, we won’t be able to wash the bad taste of Vantage Point from our mouths.
It needs more of Tina Fey the sharp, witty writer, as the film is as pedestrian and middling as they come.