Movie Reviews4.9/10
Will Smith’s Hancock is a superhero movie that doesn’t like superheroes
Hancock (2008) review: Will Smith's drunk superhero soars, but the mid-movie twist sinks Peter Berg's $629M hit. A 4.9/10 cautionary tale.
CLAY TRIBUNE / THE ARCHIVE
Category: Movie Reviews
Every film we have scored, from 1980s horror to what is in cinemas now.
Movie Reviews6.7/10
The Herd Grows, the Ice Still Melts: What the Second Ice Age Gets Right About Manny
Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) review: Manny, Sid and Diego face a flood, a new mammoth named Ellie, and two frozen reptiles. A safe but sweet sequel.
Movie Reviews6.1/10
The Wolverine Review: Jackman Carries Logan’s Japan Detour
Review of James Mangold's The Wolverine: Logan in Japan, losing his healing factor, with Hugh Jackman, Rila Fukushima, and a sharp change of setting.
Movie Reviews8.2/10
Stop-Motion Christmas Classic Still Works Because It Refuses to Explain Itself
A review of The Nightmare Before Christmas, the 1993 stop-motion classic with Danny Elfman's songs and a Halloween-Christmas holiday mix that still works.
Movie Reviews4.7/10
Sonic the Hedgehog Review: A Franchise Launcher That Never Quite Decides What It Wants to Be
Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) review: Jim Carrey shines, but the video game movie races through a thin plot and never finds its footing. Score: 4.7/10.
Movie Reviews8.6/10
Million Dollar Baby Is a Boxing Drama That Becomes Something Else
Million Dollar Baby review: Eastwood's boxing drama won four Oscars, but the film's real power is in its middle act, not the title fight.
Movie Reviews7.4/10
Black Women Mathematicians Got the Space Program Up, and the Film Finally Said So
Hidden Figures review: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe play the NASA mathematicians who put John Glenn in orbit. 7.4/10.
Movie Reviews7.7/10
How to Train Your Dragon 2 flies further from Berk than its predecessor ever dared
How to Train Your Dragon 2 review: Hiccup at 20, Valka's return, and Drago's threat as Dean DeBlois expands Berk into a bigger, darker world.
Movie Reviews8.4/10
Snowpiercer Review: Bong Joon Ho’s Train of Class and Ice
Snowpiercer review: Bong Joon Ho's 2013 English-language debut puts humanity on a train that never stops and asks who rides up front. 8.4/10.
Movie Reviews5.2/10
Murder on the Orient Express (2017): First-Class Cast, Second-Class Script
Kenneth Branagh's 2017 Murder on the Orient Express has a first-class cast and a second-class script. A 5.2/10 review of the Christie adaptation.
Movie Reviews7.5/10
Marvel’s Ten Rings Saga Is Really About a Father and Son Who Cannot Reach Each Other
Marvel's first Asian-led film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, reviewed: strong family drama, uneven finale, 7.5/10.
Movie Reviews7.2/10
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: Sam Raimi’s Horror-Inflected Marvel Sequel
Sam Raimi turns Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness into a horror picture in a cape, powered by Wanda's grief and carried by Elizabeth Olsen.