Reviews

[Review] In Secret

Strong performances help In Secret overcome what might have been a “prestige” retelling of Tyler Perry’s Confessions of a Marriage Counselor. Far from subtle, t...

[Review] 3 Days to Kill

Decades out from his leading man days, Kevin Costner wears spiritual weariness like a second skin onscreen. Recently, that quality has been put to use in a seri...

[Review] Child’s Pose

What does it mean to be a parent? To take a blanketed, personal responsibility for the good and the bad of your child’s actions? This question is at the heart o...

[Review] Pompeii

As a filmmaker, Paul W.S. Anderson has become known for his video-game adaptations, most notably the zombie franchise Resident Evil and the scorned screen versi...

[Review] About Last Night

One of three separate remakes of 1980's films to come out this Valentine's Day weekend, Steve Pink's About Last Night is an adequately sweet, funny, sometimes s...

[Review] Endless Love

I have no doubt one day director and co-writer Shana Feste will make a truly compelling masterpiece about the “New South." Her previous feature, Country Strong,...

[Review] Winter’s Tale

The bevy of woeful decisions made by writer/director Akiva Goldsman throughout his adaptation of Mark Helprin's impressive 1983 novel Winter's Tale will surely ...

[Review] Down and Dangerous

If you’re familiar with writer/director Zak Forsman’s work you’ll know that it was only a matter of time before he branched out from subtle character pieces to ...

[Review] RoboCop

How practical, really, is a RoboCop? A rigorous machine guided by the impulses of a human brain, packed into an ass-kicking, cyborg form and loaded with weap...

[Review] Vampire Academy

Vampire Academy is often more fun than many brainless supernatural tween films like, for example, last year's dud The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. This is...