Tag: Movie Review

We review Quentin Tarantino's claustrophobic eighth feature

We review Pixar's second feature of 2015

After a big hit like Skyfall, how does 007's next adventure fare?

The biopic has really overstayed its welcome. We've come a long way since the halcyon days of Patton, but in recent years, the genre has become synonymous with "larger than life" mythologizing, with the...

The week of its release, and The Martian's science is already outdated by the recent discovery of water on Mars. Years from now, viewers will look back and shake their heads at the barren and dry depiction of the planet, along with the size and dimensions of cell phones, probably. Or the fact that we even had cell phones. But we'll forgive The Martian for being so last week.

Judging by the first few scenes, Sicario looks like a great chance to see Emily Blunt flex her literal and figurative acting muscles – another reminder of the Black Widow that could have been – in the role of a strong female lead working on a task force to take down a Mexican drug cartel. But what actually follows is much murkier and, arguably, much more true to life.

In the current mold of superhero film-making, it's difficult to escape the prevailing wisdom of how studios formulate their respective franchises. There's the Marvel method, which embraces the colorful comic tones and inherent silliness...

While my familiarity with the television series is admittedly meager, the consistently Tom Cruise-led Mission: Impossible film entries have played like minor American efforts at aping the formula that made James Bond a success....

Can the dormant Terminator franchise find new life?

How does the new Matthew Vaughn-directed Mark Millar adaptation fare?