Author: Eric D. Snider

The Happytime Murders is a dismal execution of a great premise, in which puppets (think Muppets) live alongside humans in Los […]

A.X.L., a wholesome boy-and-his-dog adventure and an inoffensive PG trifle, is patterned after The Iron Giant — a good role model for […]

Papillon is based on the memoirs of Henri Charrière, a 1930s French safecracker who was sent to an inescapable penal colony […]

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood is the movie version of the 2012 memoir Full Service, in which George Albert […]

They don’t make a lot of movies that are set in 18,000 B.C. and told entirely in made-up caveman languages, perhaps […]

Peter Berg, director of good movies like Friday Night Lights and The Rundown, has fallen in with a bad crowd lately, and […]

There are two things about Crazy Rich Asians that separate it from most romantic comedies. One is that it’s good. Based on […]

Even by the low standards of lame PG-13 horror movies about teenage girls being harassed by supernatural entities, Slender Man is quite […]

Summer of 84 is by the trio of Canadian directors — François Simard, Anouk Whissell, and Yoann-Karl Whissell, known collectively as RKSS […]

Like most action movies, The Meg begins with its tough-guy hero (who is the best of the best at what he does) […]