Movie Reviews7.6/10
Adrien Brody’s Lonely Taxi Driver Holds a Broken City Together for 15 Years
A substitute teacher wanders a high school, touching lives yet settling nowhere, in this tale of detachment.
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Every film we have scored, from 1980s horror to what is in cinemas now.
Movie Reviews6.5/10
To All the Boys: Always and Forever Closes the Book on Lara Jean and Peter’s Romance
A tale of love and college, wherein a girl returns from Seoul and learns that endings are seldom what she planned.
Movie Reviews9.5/10
Breathless Review: A Man Who Cannot Stop Moving and a Woman Who Cannot Stop Thinking
A restless thief and a hesitant student cross France in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, a wild, violent, honest New Wave masterpiece.
Movie Reviews3.1/10
The Blue Lagoon Review: A Tropical Paradise Ruined By Desire
A cook, a wreck, an island — this simple tale of survival was ruined by desire. A review of The Blue Lagoon.
Movie Reviews6/10
Obelix and Asterix Take On Caesar: Solid Cast, Uneven Formula
Asterix and Obelix take on Caesar in a grand comedy-adventure where the magic potion that protects their village gets used less than it should.
Movie Reviews4.5/10
Maid in Manhattan Review: The Lie About Who She Is Drives the Whole Movie
A maid mistaken for a socialite falls in love with a senatorial candidate in this pleasant, forgettable romantic comedy.
Movie Reviews4/10
Pay It Forward Review: Trevor’s Chain of Favors Is Manipulation, Not Kindness
A boy's plan to change the world through favors spins out of control in this earnest, flawed drama.
Movie Reviews1.7/10
Ice Cube Steps Into the Lead Role in xXx: State of the Union, and the Film Loses Its Way
A man of extreme sports and a criminal record becomes the perfect new agent, yet the film fails to live up to its own premise.
Movie Reviews4.1/10
Machete Kills Review: Rodriguez’s Messy Sequel Strains Under Its Own Weight
A one-man army battles a mad revolutionary and a villainous arms dealer in this wild, messy sequel.
Movie Reviews6.4/10
Thirty-Six Years On, Chucky’s Second Horror Still Cuts Deeper Than Most
A wicked doll returns, possessed anew, to torment a boy within a household of dread. A tale of terror, told in brief.
Movie Reviews1.4/10
Jack Black’s Biblical Road Trip With Michael Cera Never Learns to Be Anything But Crude
A Stone Age tale of two wanderers, a broken quest, and a score too low to speak of.
Movie Reviews3/10
Four Years On, Troll Still Proves That Monster Movies Work Better Without Anyone Worth Saving
A monstrous troll stirs in Norway's Dovre mountains, while paleontologists, soldiers, and politicians fail miserably to contain it.