Monsters aren’t born; they are created by their environments. Our actions, even those motivated by the best of intentions (such as asking...

When I wrote my decidedly negative review of The Smurfs 2, I mentioned that I’d hoped it would be a “pleasant surprise.“ That was,...

When I made the difficult decision to spend money on a screening of The Smurfs 2 (by which I mean “It was the only thing playing when I...

In 2008, South Korean filmmaker Kim Jee-Woon directed The Good, the Bad, the Weird, a stylish, postmodern “Kimchee Western” featuring...

In this rollicking, ultra-violent, color-soaked throwback to the golden age of gangster flicks, director Ruben Fleischer paints in very...

I won’t be writing one of my usual reviews for Avengers: Infinity War. I have two big reasons for this: I am incredibly biased when it...

I’m a sucker for a good love story. “Good” being the key word. These days, movie theaters and TV stations are saturated with a glut of...

It’s a remarkable musical number, played out almost entirely in a single continuous shot: a tight closeup on Anne Hathaway’s tortured...

Jack Reacher is about as generic as action heroes get. He is every male fantasy made flesh–Bruce Lee, Dirty Harry, and James Bond rolled...

A meteor crashes smack-dab in the middle of a small rural community. An extra-terrestrial menace emerges to terrorize the people of...

Characters. Characters matter. Especially in “scary” movies–after all, how can I experience true fear if I don’t care about the people on...

He isn’t a man so much as a presence. As soon as he steps into a room, every other occupant seems to shrink. He rarely speaks, and...

Nothing better supports the argument that Hollywood has run out of ideas than the trailer for The Expendables 2. At least you can’t...

Last night, I watched the Joss Whedon-scripted Alien: Resurrection for the first time in a long time (thanks, SyFy), and I realized...

George Lucas may not have directed Red Tails himself, but he definitely left some fingerprints on it. Like Star Wars and the Indiana...

“What happens when a man who hates killing finds himself in a situation that demands lethal force—indeed, in which killing becomes a...

“Does The Hobbit really need to be divided into three films?” It’s a valid question. I’ll admit, I mulled it over more than once. The...

Steven Spielberg is one of our greatest living storytellers. I seem to recall that several critics accused last year’s War Horse of being...

There were only two reasons I wanted to check out this rather routine-looking slasher flick. First, it costars Josh Peck, best known for...

Disney has a talent for spinning existential despair into heartwarming, hilarious adventures; like the company’s best output (Aladdin,...