Day Shift tackles familiar territory with refreshing style, breeziness, and memorably enjoyable characters, as well as delivering some of the year’s best action. Despite being…
This latest Ninja Turtles product is a narratively lazy and formally chaotic bit of empty IP. As long as one doesn’t stubbornly insist on…
The Gray Man is an unforgivably bland and phoned-in actioner defined by digital smearing and toothless character work. It’s a little disingenuous to describe a…
Persuasion tries and fails to hide its thoughtless adaptation instincts and baffling decision-making behind a deluge of modern stylistic flourishes and homages to superior…
Even within the teen romance subgenre, Hello, Goodbye stands out as particularly bland, delivering signifiers and signposts in place of genuine substance. Marketing materials…
Incantation is found footage horror that does little to add fresh twists to a stale formula, instead relying on a non-stop barrage of tired…
The Man from Toronto is as familiar as assassin-centric action-comedies come, but nevertheless proves a refreshing blast of mid-summer fun on the strength of its…
CIVIL wades into necessary discourse, but stops short of probing any of the thornier facets of Crump or the culture that has led to his…
Spiderhead is pure algorithm “art,” an empty bad-tech tale that delivers nothing new or exciting. You’d be forgiven for getting excited for a mid-budget, talent-driven,…
Hustle is middlebrow inspo cinema that fails to channel the best of either Sandler’s juvenalia comedy or his dramatic talent — just one giant…
Interceptor makes enough of its modest scale to please DTV action junkies until the next low-budget blaster comes along. DTV action lovers will have…
Senior Year is an inconsistent, scattershot vanity project for Rebel Wilson, tanking every potentially interesting angle in favor of lame mugging. Austin Powers meets…
Operation Mincemeat is precisely the kind of stolid history flick your dad will probably like but which bears little artistry to otherwise meaningfully distinguish…
Marmaduke is one of the most scatological films you’re ever likely to see, and so it’s fitting that it turns out to be an epic…
The Takedown is inoffensive as a buddy cop comedy, but runs into trouble with its reductive neoliberal political invocations. Louis Leterrier’s The Takedown, a…
Like A Rolling Stone excels in conveying a vivid sense of the flesh-and-blood human behind the venerated byline. Ben Fong-Torres, the celebrated music journalist profiled…
Bubble is an altogether gentler anime product for Araki, aiming for the emotional stakes of films like Your Name, but is slight to the point…
The only choice to make regarding Choose or Die is to choose not to watch this lazy, unintelligible bit of horror rehash. New Netflix horror flick…