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Love, Rosie Review: Lily Collins Carries a Romance That Mistakes Delay for Depth
Love, Rosie review: Lily Collins shines in a romance that mistakes delay for depth, with a script that never builds on its one strong idea.
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Every film we have scored, from 1980s horror to what is in cinemas now.
Movie Reviews4.8/10
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Review: Carrey’s Debut Is a Thin Mystery That Somehow Launched a Franchise
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective review: Jim Carrey's 1994 hit made $107.2M on a $15M budget despite a broken mystery and a 48% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Movie Reviews5.9/10
Cars 3 Review: Pixar’s Most Thoughtful Racer Still Can’t Let Go
Cars 3 review: Pixar's aging-racer sequel lets Lightning McQueen lose, then flinches. Cruz Ramirez steals the film, but the ending settles for one more win.
Movie Reviews7.4/10
Black Hawk Down: A Technically Superb War Film With a Narrow Field of View
A review of Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down (2001): its Mogadishu mission, Oscar-winning craft, huge ensemble cast, and the politics it leaves out.
Movie Reviews5.9/10
Alien³ Review: David Fincher’s Bleak, Muddled Debut Still Has Real Images in It
Alien³ review: David Fincher's troubled 1992 debut strands Ripley on a prison planet. A bleak, striking mess with Charles S. Dutton's best work.
Movie Reviews8.5/10
The Wild Robot Review: DreamWorks’ Watercolor Masterpiece Earns Its 8.5/10
The Wild Robot review: DreamWorks' watercolor masterpiece, Lupita Nyong'o's voice work, nine Annie Awards, and a $334.5M global haul.
Movie Reviews6.7/10
Renny Harlin’s airport sequel delivers the set pieces but not the spark
Die Hard 2 review: Bruce Willis returns as John McClane at Dulles Airport, Christmas 1990. Renny Harlin directs. Score: 6.7/10.
Movie Reviews7.6/10
Denzel Washington Lands a Plane, Then Has to Prove He Was Sober
Flight (2012): Denzel Washington plays an intoxicated pilot who lands a broken plane. Zemeckis returns to live action in a film about a blood test, not a crash.
Movie Reviews6.2/10
The Vampire Lestat Tells His Own Story, and the Film Cannot Decide Whose Movie It Is
Interview with the Vampire (1994): Neil Jordan's Anne Rice adaptation, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, and the casting fight Rice lost then won.
Movie Reviews9.1/10
Monty Python’s Holy Grail Turns Arthurian Romance Into a Sketch About Bureaucracy
Monty Python and the Holy Grail at 50: how six Pythons turned King Arthur into coconuts, killer rabbits, and the funniest ending in comedy.
Movie Reviews3.2/10
Independence Day: Resurgence Review: A Legacy Sequel That Buries Its Legacy
Independence Day: Resurgence review: Emmerich's 2016 sequel kills off Will Smith's legacy, wastes Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman, and buries its best ideas.
Movie Reviews5.8/10
The Dictator is a comedy that knows its villain and not much else
Sacha Baron Cohen's 2012 satire The Dictator targets strongmen with a sharp premise but soft political bite, grossing $190 million for Paramount.