Reviews

[Review] Rio

Rio, like Ice Age (also directed by Carlos Saldanha), is a fun fast-paced film that explores teamwork and friendship. It combines comedy, romance, adventure...

[Review] American: The Bill Hicks Story

How does one document a legend, especially one as controversial and influential as comedian Bill Hicks? Throughout his career, he was labeled a rebel, a sai...

[Review] Scream 4

It's quite telling when the best scene in your movie isn't even from your own movie. When a clip is shown early on from Shaun of the Dead, I felt a burst of...

[Blu-Review] TRON: Legacy

TRON: Legacy is both distancing and oddly engaging. This 28-years later sequel could not be more similar to the first installment. It runs at a mild pace, i...

[Review] Henry’s Crime

On paper, Henry's Crime, especially with the strong talent involved, could have been a fun and clever heist film. In execution, it's neither of those things. ...

[Review] Your Highness

Some films come off like a group of talented guys playing a grand inside joke. The best and most recent example of that was Tropic Thunder. Ben Stiller's ac...

[Review] Hanna

Best-known for his period piece adaptations of heralded literature, director Joe Wright takes on new terrain with his spy-centered thrill ride, Hanna, a twi...

[Review] Super

James Gunn's newest film Super is comical, gritty, and lovably all over the place in tone and nature. This isn't a satire. This isn't a parody. And this isn...

[Review] Hop

Directed by Tim Hill (Alvin and the Chipmunks), this live-action/animated film is sugary sweet, and nothing great ever comes out of an overload of cuteness....

[Review] Source Code

Thank God Duncan Jones didn't hit the ol' sophomore slump. Second features always seem to be the trickiest for filmmakers, especially when they're coming off ...