Category: Reviews

What distinguishes Deadpool from most other superheroes is that he swears, kills people, and breaks the fourth wall. That is also, […]

This week’s “good enough, I guess, if you’re not too picky” home-invasion thriller is Breaking In,”which offers the innovative twist of […]

You’ll think you’ve seen Life of the Party before, or at least something very much like it: A dowdy, newly divorced mom […]

The rape-revenge sub-genre has many entries, and everything about Revenge (including the title) sounds derivative until you get to the credits. How […]

There are two premises in Bad Samaritan, one that drives the plot and one that explains the villain’s motives. They are […]

Diablo Cody’s screenwriting career started with a pregnant teenager named Juno. She returns to the subject of maternity with Tully, but […]

Any remake of the 1987 Goldie Hawn/Kurt Russell “romantic” “comedy” Overboard would have to reverse the genders. A single father of three […]

Some movies provide so much vivid detail about a character that you could practically write a biography. Lynne Ramsay’s mesmerizing You […]

There are no literal hauntings in Ismael’s Ghosts, a wry, lyrical, but often plodding drama from director Arnaud Desplechin (A Christmas […]

You can go crazy trying to understand the thinking of people who make and sell Hollywood blockbusters, but what they’ve done […]

You can tell Traffik is a serious movie about scary things because it’s spelled with a “k.” “Traffic,” who cares? But “traffik”?? […]

Experience has taught us not to get our hopes up about long-awaited sequels, especially sequels to films whose charms were obscure […]