Weird accordingly—or is it accordion-gly?—takes everything to new heights of glorious ridiculousness.
The film lacks for the empathy, curiosity, and sense of humor that are the defining characteristics of the Smiths’s music.
VHYes settles much too comfortably into the well-trodden footsteps of other works.
It all feels cheap, a far cry from what S. Craig Zahler can do when overseeing both a film’s words as well as its images.
Dog Days remains committed to coloring within the lines of established tropes in the animal-centric family film.
The film displays a sprightly tone and blissful sense of liberation in charting the exploits of characters seeking to live by their own feminine-centric rules.
The evocative, perhaps purposeful awkwardness of The 15:17 to Paris alternates with ordinary awfulness.
The film’s sense of nostalgia is ultimately a reflection of how little the film asks of its audience.
Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon display a freewheelin’ sense of invention that should be watched closely.
Kirk Jones’s film takes procreation not only as its central theme, but as a given.
Despite aping its title in order to suggest quality by association, Bad Teacher has nothing in common with Bad Santa.
The extras provide further evidence of the links between reading trashy women’s magazines and the pursuit of plastic surgery.
This set has been lovingly designed for The State fanatics who, at the current price point, will want to dip their balls in it.
Director Shawn Levy remains unable to convey the type of grand, awe-inspiring scope and wonder that his material requires.
When 17 Again isn’t pilfering from its betters, it’s engaging in the most Pavlovian button-pushing.
Balls of Fury looks like another sports-spoof throwaway, but it does have a piercing reason for being.
Congratulations to Christopher Walken for finally delivering a performance that’s a parody of a parody of himself.
Reno 911!: Miami suffers the most from a timid lack of comedic reach.
We seem to do better at picking a winner when we actually haven’t seen the nominated films.
The story attempts to tap into the sense of extraordinary childhood wonder that typified Amazing Stories.