It takes a great movie to fill a 150-minute running time, make an audience emotionally invest in characters who sometimes do terrible things and thrill the audience from beginning to end, but Prisoners does that and more. This is a fantastic thriller that does pretty much everything it needs to do exceptionally well — to… Continue reading Movie review: Prisoners
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Movie review: Don Jon
Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s feature-length directorial debut certainly could have gone worse than Don Jon: an unremarkable but functional movie about a man’s addiction to pornography. It also could have been a whole lot better. The problem comes less from Gordon-Levitt’s talent behind the camera — it’s shot fine and there are a few flourishes of style… Continue reading Movie review: Don Jon
Film Review: Monsters University
There are extraordinarily high expectations placed on Monsters University. As a prequel to one of the best films that has come out of Pixar Animation Studios, Monsters, Inc., the result was always going to be compared to the first film. The film doesn’t match up, but it likely wasn’t going to anyway. For the most… Continue reading Film Review: Monsters University
Film review: The Purge
What’s worse than dumbing down an intelligent concept for an audience? Ignoring it altogether. This is the crime of The Purge, a horror movie which could have been one of the best films of the year and is instead is one of the most disappointing. The movie’s premise has almost limitless potential but is used… Continue reading Film review: The Purge
Film Review: The Internship
It’s surprising that a studio took this long to team Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn up to headline another comedy since the Wedding Crashers was released in 2005 and met with critical acclaim and a hefty box office total. But The Internship isn’t the success that Wedding Crashers was, although fans of the two stars… Continue reading Film Review: The Internship
Film Review: Now You See Me
Now You See Me is a film that plays out with a disdain for its audience, always keeping them at arm’s length in hopes that the viewers will never figure out what secrets are hiding beneath its surface. In some respects, it’s like real magicians, who always hope to hide the secrets to their tricks.… Continue reading Film Review: Now You See Me
Film review: The Croods
The Croods is an immensely funny, very charming animated film from DreamWorks Animation and co-directors Kirk DeMicco (Space Chimps) and Chris Sanders (How to Train Your Dragon). The film takes a while to get going — following one very entertaining chase sequence — but once it finds its comfort zone, The Croods winds up being… Continue reading Film review: The Croods
Film review: Oz the Great and Powerful
It’s difficult to see Oz the Great and Powerful as anything other than a corporate film — a movie that was created simply because the studio behind it, Disney, knew it would make a ton of money at the box office. That’s how the trailers made it out to look and, after seeing it, those… Continue reading Film review: Oz the Great and Powerful
Film review: Parker
Parker was a much better concept for a film before Jack Reacher underperformed at the box office — both films are adaptations of popular novels made into generic action movies that serve primarily as vanity pieces for their lead actors. However, instead of megastar Tom Cruise playing the lead role, Parker stars Jason Statham, perhaps… Continue reading Film review: Parker
Film review: Gangster Squad
Helmed by the promising up-and-coming director Ruber Fleicher and featuring an all-star cast, including Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, Gangster Squad looked to be one of the most promising movies of the year. Yet instead of being the impressive gangster film it could have been, it turned out to be an… Continue reading Film review: Gangster Squad