Movie Reviews5.7/10
Review: Journey to the Center of the Earth Wastes Its 3D Gimmick on a Thin Adventure
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) review: Brendan Fraser's 3D thrill ride treats the planet's core as a theme park, not a place.
CLAY TRIBUNE / THE ARCHIVE
Category: Movie Reviews
Every film we have scored, from 1980s horror to what is in cinemas now.
Movie Reviews4.1/10
Michael Bay’s 6 Underground: A $150 Million Blur That Never Finds Its Shape
Michael Bay's 6 Underground cost Netflix $150 million and scored 41 on Metacritic. A review of the Ryan Reynolds action film's noise, waste, and missed promise.
Movie Reviews4.5/10
Ghostbusters: Afterlife Review: A Franchise Doing Maintenance on Itself
Ghostbusters: Afterlife review: Jason Reitman's 2021 sequel rebuilds old gear and mourns Harold Ramis, but mistakes nostalgia for story. 4.5/10.
Movie Reviews2.1/10
Gerard Butler Tries to Outrun a Weather Satellite in a Thriller That Forgets to Be Thrilling
Geostorm review: Dean Devlin's 2017 disaster film buries a sabotage thriller under collapsing buildings, bad effects, and a broken script.
Movie Reviews4.4/10
Mortal Engines: A Waste of a Strange, Angry, Original Story
Mortal Engines lost Universal an estimated $175 million. A look at the 2018 steampunk flop's wasted cast, its one great idea, and why the world never landed.
Movie Reviews4.4/10
Bloodshot Review: A Dead Man Rebooted, and a Franchise That Never Had a Chance
Bloodshot review: Vin Diesel's nanite superhero movie, its memory-wipe plot, Guy Pearce's corporate villain, and a March 2020 release killed by COVID.
Movie Reviews6.6/10
Crimson Peak Review: A Beautiful, Uneven Haunted-House Film
Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak sinks into red clay: a gorgeous gothic romance haunted by ghosts it never fully believes in.
Movie Reviews6.4/10
Everest Turns Mountain Climbing Into a Story About Logistics and Ego
Review of Baltasar Kormákur's 2015 survival film Everest, starring Jason Clarke and Jake Gyllenhaal, about the 1996 Mount Everest disaster.
Movie Reviews7.5/10
‘Dead Reckoning’ Is a Mission: Impossible That Costs More and Risks Less
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One review: Tom Cruise vs. a sentient AI, Hayley Atwell's scene-stealing Grace, and why $571M still counted as a flop.
Movie Reviews5/10
The Princess Diaries at 5 of 10
A 5/10 review of The Princess Diaries (2001), Garry Marshall's Disney comedy starring Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews, and why it stays safe.
Movie Reviews5.8/10
The Rock Is a Good Movie With a Long Second Half
A retro review of Michael Bay's 1996 action thriller The Rock, starring Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris, and what still holds up.
Movie Reviews6.8/10
Cube (1998) Review: A Great Engine in a Thin Chassis
Cube review: Vincenzo Natali's 1997 cult sci-fi thriller traps seven strangers in a lethal maze. We break down the deaths, the math, and the prison-name twist.