The series displays some of the inevitable wear of a concept that has already gotten more mileage than anticipated.
Ang Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk does astounding work animating the mind of its young soldier.
The film relies on a bevy of spectacularly funny clips and a plethora of talking heads, most falling back on plaudits rather than sage insights.
Home’s exposition is a mess of forced zaniness, which leaves the rest of the film with a Swiss-cheese foundation.
Palin’s depiction of Hamish Melville, the impossibly ethical activist against which Mabbut compares himself, is handled unexpectedly.
The original version of Little Shop of Horrors is finally allowed to run rampant over expectations and popular discretion, as intended.
As Steve’s grandmother would say: Be oblong and have your knees removed.
Read the damn play. Because after you do, you’ll appreciate all the more how Steve Martin’s screenplay transforms it.
Without a doubt, this 2011 edition was the film festival experience of the year for me.
Director David Frankel can’t lend the inflated sitcom dilemmas of the characters any life.
Troubadours cedes to the real villain of any lazy story set in this period: cocaine.
Never mind that the stars are spectacularly misaligned.
The film seems determined to sully the legacy of Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers’s original series.
Baby Mama confirms that if Tina Fey is in something she didn’t write herself, it just ain’t funny.
It needs more of Tina Fey the sharp, witty writer, as the film is as pedestrian and middling as they come.
Parenthood is a four-family, four-hankie weepie in which most of the characters talk like screenwriters.
Its very existence means “the best film Ron Howard directed” is, lamentably, not a backhanded compliment.
These are the sorts of films New York Times critic A.O. Scott recently complained weren’t being made anymore.
Peripheral amusements aside, this new Panther remains defanged and more shit-brown than pink.
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 is far more concerned with pat platitudes than it is with sex.