Posts tagged movie review
Red Tails – Movie Review [3.2/10]
Review by Chicago Reader George Lucas served as executive producer for this effects-heavy action film about the Tuskegee Airmen, and it feels as synthetic and dull as The Phantom Menace. The film’s depiction of Italy in World War II feels like a second- or third-hand memory (and sometimes looks like a computer-game backdrop), and the…
Declaration of War – Review [9/10]
Review by nypost.com France’s “Declaration of War” has it all: comedy, romance, fantasy, musical interludes and a child with a brain tumor. Wait — what? A quick trawl through the memory turns up no other movie like this comedy-drama, about the ordeal of a sexy young couple (His name? Romeo. Hers is Juliette) — who…
The Innkeepers – Review [8.3/10]
Review by ew.com As a ghost story, The Innkeepers is pretty tame. As a horror movie, it’s relatively low-gore — and low-budget. But those constraints become assets in writer-director Ti West’s warm and witty deconstructed spook tale. West, a thirtysomething horror aficionado who previously toyed with the fate of an unlucky babysitter in his highly…
Man on a Ledge – Review [2.6/10]
Review by nj.com The movie is called “Man on a Ledge,” but right from the start, the story is in free fall. The hero, Nick, is an ex-cop and convicted diamond thief — who escapes from prison only to check into a midtown hotel, order himself a nice dinner and then climb out the window,…
The Grey – Review [7.6/10]
Review by The Detroit News ‘The Grey” is a sheep in wolf’s clothing. At first, this survival film seems to have artsy aspirations. Man against nature and all that. But then it gets so spectacularly dumb and predictable and long-winded that you lose all respect and interest. Liam Neeson stars as Ottway, working at a…
Underworld Awakening – Review [3/10]
Review by Variety Back in black and cutting no slack, Kate Beckinsale returns as Selene, the kickass vampire warrioress who always shoots first and never bothers to ask questions afterward, in “Underworld Awakening,” the fourth entry in the enduringly popular action-horror franchise launched by Len Wiseman’s “Underworld” back in 2003. Although the directorial chores have…
How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? – Review [4.8/10]
Review by npr.org The title of the new documentary about British architect Norman Foster comes from a question posed by one of his American mentors, Buckminster Fuller. How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? shows the designer’s answer: structures that are airier, both in appearance and fact. The movie, directed by Carlos Carcas and…
Contraband – Movie Review [4.9/10]
Review by MSN Mark Wahlberg generally brings a terse, direct credibility to his work in action pictures. But that gets him only so far when he doesn’t have credible … OK, maybe “credible” is too much to ask these days, so let’s say entertaining, material to work with. While the jumping-off point for the New Orleans-set “Contraband,”…
The Woman in Black – Review [8.5/10]
Review by sky.com After putting paid to evil Lord Voldermort and his diabolical plans for world domination, Daniel Radcliffe’s got another malevolent child-killer to deal with. With rather more modest ambitions than The Dark Lord (this one merely does for local nippers by showing her shadowy face), Dan’s new nemesis still has the power to…
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close – Review [4.7/10]
Review by Kansascity.com A bright, socially awkward boy tries to make sense of 9/11 and find some closure with the father he lost on what he calls “the worst day” in “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.” The film, based on a Jonathan Safran Foer novel, is a sometimes tearful remembrance of that day and the…
Beauty and the Beast Review [9.2/10]
Review by nj.com How do you get people to pay a second time for a product they’ve already bought once? And to pay even more? It’s a marketing challenge, all right — but one that Hollywood is happy to tackle this year, as films from “Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace” to “Titanic”…
Haywire Movie Review [8.2/10]
Review by Freep.com Gina Carano has a face that can hold a Hollywood close-up and a fist that can hold your nose until it comes clean off. Steven Soderbergh cast this mixed martial arts star and model in “Haywire” and surrounded her with experienced actors because he wanted to see an action movie starring a…
Joyful Noise Movie Review [3.3/10]
Review by Star Tribune “Joyful Noise” is a sort of Wal-Mart movie, not exactly trendsetting but a decent enough offering for the heartland. The premise smacks of focus-group research more than inspiration, but it hits the target. Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton in a feel-good musical about a church choir — tell me how that…
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol Movie Review [9.3/10]
Review by The Charlotte Observer You’re going to want to spring for IMAX tickets to “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.” If Tom Cruise is willing to hang off the walls of the tallest building in the world, where do you get off going cheap? “Ghost Protocol” is the most action-packed, most jokey and self-aware, most…
