Movie Reviews5.2/10
White House Down Review: Roland Emmerich’s Siege Has No Conviction
White House Down review: Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx in Roland Emmerich's 2013 siege thriller, a jokier rival to Olympus Has Fallen. Score: 5.2/10.
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Every film we have scored, from 1980s horror to what is in cinemas now.
Movie Reviews6.3/10
Ridley Scott’s Crusades epic is caught between history and Hollywood
Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven (2005) pits Orlando Bloom's blacksmith against the Third Crusade. A serious drama trapped in a Hollywood epic.
Movie Reviews3.3/10
Sucker Punch Was a Mess in 2011. Its Defenders Have Had 15 Years to Make the Case.
Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch turns 15: Emily Browning, the missing fifth item, the casting what-ifs, and why the 2011 flop still has a cult following.
Movie Reviews5.6/10
Teen Mystery Paper Towns Builds a Puzzle, Then Refuses to Solve It
Paper Towns review: Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne lead a moody teen mystery that never commits to its own sharp idea about loving an imagined person.
Movie Reviews6.7/10
Leigh Whannell’s Upgrade Is a B-Movie About a Man Who Lets a Computer Drive His Body
Upgrade (2018): Leigh Whannell's cyberpunk revenge thriller with Logan Marshall-Green, a STEM chip, and a $3M budget that returned $17M.
Movie Reviews7.3/10
Airplane! Review: The Most Disciplined Comedy Ever Made Still Flies at 88 Minutes
Airplane! at 45: how Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker cast serious actors like Leslie Nielsen and Robert Stack to make the 1980 deadpan comedy classic fly.
Movie Reviews4.7/10
The Secrets of Dumbledore Buries Its Best Story in the Subplot
The third Fantastic Beasts film finally admits Dumbledore loves Grindelwald, but buries its best idea under blood troths, qilins and a messy retcon.
Movie Reviews5.2/10
Atlantis: The Lost Empire Review: A Handsome, Cold Curiosity That Keeps Sinking
A review of Disney's 2001 animated adventure Atlantis: The Lost Empire, starring Michael J. Fox, with its Mignola design, lost language, and sunken script.
Movie Reviews9.2/10
Platoon at 40: Oliver Stone’s Vietnam War Masterpiece Still Cuts Deep
Oliver Stone's Platoon (1986), the first Vietnam War film written and directed by a veteran, still holds up at 9.2/10 — casting what-ifs and all.
Movie Reviews8.2/10
The Northman: Eggers’s Viking Revenge Epic Holds Its Nerve
Robert Eggers' Viking revenge epic The Northman, starring Alexander Skarsgård, retells the Amleth legend with a stacked cast and a 137-minute run.
Movie Reviews3.8/10
Meet the Fockers Review: A $522.7 Million Machine That Forgot the Misery
A retrospective review of Meet the Fockers (2004), the $522.7M sequel that turned a family comedy into a franchise machine louder and emptier than the original.
Movie Reviews5.5/10
Found-Footage Horror That Peaks Before the Twist
M. Night Shyamalan's found-footage horror The Visit turns 11. A close look at Nana, Pop Pop, the camcorder, and why the twist still works.