Writer-director Edson Oda never really puts a unique spin on the familiar story of otherworldly figures peering in on the lives of the living.
Even the jokes that land mostly emphasize how complacent the series is to coast on its crassness.
Pixar’s superfluous but characteristically touching epilogue for its flagship franchise gets an equally fond send-off on home video.
The film seamlessly interweaves fun escapades and earnest emotions, but it lacks the visual power of its predecessor.
Writer-director Megan Griffiths’s film remains a clear-eyed portrait of maternal love and teenage turmoil.
The Angry Birds Movie is a lot of things, but none of them true to the app’s appeal.
It typifies American politics with a brand of acidic cynicism that yields big laughs and increasingly unlikable characters.
In the film, Alvin and the Chipmunks proudly align themselves not with Dr. Demento, but with Kidz Bop.
A Bourne movie turned just askew enough to be funny, Nima Nourizadeh’s American Ultra trains a bemused eye on a trope ripe for a ribbing.
It seems to suggest that political life is so all-consuming that no happy, well-adjusted person would ever choose to be a part of it.
It isn’t a disservice to Louis-Dreyfus to say that her Emmy award for the role is in many ways a reflection of the quality of the supporting cast.
It’s perhaps a sign of Veep’s realism that the new HBO comedy feels a lot like a receptacle.
The film’s principal project is to trade in questionable racial characterization as a catalyst for its white protagonist’s personal fulfillment.
Spectacularly witless, In My Sleep is another depressing reminder of what happens when you give cameras to jocks.
Steven Soderbergh may set out to expose the resonance behind a fabulist’s giggly ruses, but in the end it’s the audience who gets duped.
Thoroughly rehashed and oddly misanthropic, The Goods, frankly, doesn’t deliver the goods.
The film’s plot is uneven, splitting time between three protagonists who together feature zero endearing defining traits.
The film has an excellent pedigree, but when it poops it stinks of a Tim Allen movie.
What happens when fiction attacks?
At times, it’s difficult to determine if Arrested Development is good or just really fast.