Movie Reviews7.8/10
Jan de Bont’s bus thriller still runs on one clean idea, 32 years on.
Speed (1994) review: Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock and Dennis Hopper in a bus that can't drop below 50 mph. Casting history, awards, box office, verdict.
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Category: Movie Reviews
Every film we have scored, from 1980s horror to what is in cinemas now.
Movie Reviews4/10
The Declaration of Independence Heist That Launched a Franchise Still Works
A review of National Treasure (2004), the Nicolas Cage heist film that turns the Declaration of Independence into a prop and never lives up to its own premise.
Movie Reviews6.9/10
Dev Patel Gets Lost, and the Movie Loses Its Way With Him
Lion review: Garth Davis's 2016 film has a faultless first hour with Sunny Pawar and a softer second half carried by Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman.
Movie Reviews6.2/10
The Crew Reunites to Rig a Casino, and the Fun Is in the Machinery
Ocean's Thirteen review: Soderbergh's 2007 Vegas heist sequel with Clooney and Pitt is slick and well cast, but the revenge con never finds real tension.
Movie Reviews6.1/10
First Blood: The Knife, the Manhunt, and the Franchise That Followed
First Blood (1982) made Rambo a legend, but Ted Kotcheff's original film is a lean manhunt about one knife, one Green Beret, and a town called Hope.
Movie Reviews5.8/10
The Nerve Games Are a Better Idea Than the Movie Built Around Them
Nerve review: Emma Roberts and Dave Franco play an online dare game in a 2016 techno-thriller that starts strong but loses its nerve. 5.8/10.
Movie Reviews6.1/10
Allegiant Review: A Stall Beyond the Wall
Allegiant takes Tris and Four past the wall, but the answer waiting there is a lobby, not a revelation. A review of the stalled Divergent sequel.
Movie Reviews4.8/10
300: Rise of an Empire Review: Eva Green Seizes the Glory, the Rest Is a Committee
300: Rise of an Empire review: Eva Green's Artemisia is the only spark in a competent but bloodless naval sequel that never seizes its glory.
Movie Reviews6.4/10
What Gattaca Got Right About Genetic Discrimination, 29 Years Later
Gattaca review: Ethan Hawke and Jude Law in Andrew Niccol's 1997 eugenics sci-fi — strong premise, tidy drama, borrowed ladder. 6.4/10.
Movie Reviews4.1/10
Bad Boys at 31: Michael Bay’s Debut Is a Franchise Built on an Unfinished Promise
Michael Bay's 1995 debut paired Will Smith and Martin Lawrence as Miami narcs chasing stolen heroin. A franchise-launching promise the film never keeps.
Movie Reviews8.3/10
A Curse Passed Through Sex, and the Horror Is That It Never Stops
It Follows review: Mitchell's 2014 horror classic, its $1.3M budget and $23.3M gross, Maika Monroe, the walking entity, and the They Follow sequel
Movie Reviews8.6/10
Joe Dante’s Gremlins Turns Christmas Chaos Into a Warning About Rules
Gremlins (1984): Joe Dante's rules-driven horror comedy, from Gizmo to Stripe, the PG-13 rating it helped create, and why it still holds up.