Whitney Cummings’s film never seems quite sure whether it wants to probe the depths of its title subject or just make us laugh.
The only thing that could’ve made Vergara’s contribution grislier would have been to fellate a Chiquita banana.
The pyrotechnics succeed only at reinforcing West’s macho bona fides and condescendingly forcing Statham back into his wheelhouse.
Jon Favreau’s film comes off as flippant in its view of independent labor as a universally liberating experience for an artist and businessman.
The question of why one should actually work up any emotional investment in what happens to these people is never really answered, much less asked in the first place.
The tawdriness of the 2010 film has been tempered substantially in Machete Kills.
It’s hard to exhibit anything other than pity toward Escape from Planet Earth.
In the hands of the Farrellys, the Stooges are, unsurprisingly, made into totems of the duo’s favored themes and values.
The film is a predictably insufferable, self-congratulatory cash cow designed to be ingested and then happily discharged without a second thought.
Modern Family announces itself as the rightful heir to Arrested Development’s bejeweled throne.
The krill subplot is even thinner than the penguins’, to the point where it scarcely has any reason to exist.
Call off the dogs.
The writers of Modern Family are beginning to rely too heavily on stunt episodes and celebrity cameos.
The Smurfs movie reminds us that there’s no bigger bitch in life than nostalgia.
Modern Family manages to be warm and heartfelt without making you sick to your stomach.
The show combines some of the ironic stylings of Arrested Development with the sentimentalism of more traditional family sitcoms.
Tyler Perry’s roles as both populist entertainer and social preacher come into disconcerting conflict in this recent films.
Praise Jesus that Tyler Perry found Angela Bassett.
With Extras, co-creators Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant may have cracked the second novel problem.
Bono need not appear in a film for his massive-sized ego to be felt.