Movie Reviews4.8/10
Nine Years On, P.T. Barnum’s Musical Still Feels Like a Great Idea Wrapped in a Thin Shell
A circus tale of fame and spectacle, where the smile never falters yet the message grows faint beneath the glitter.
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Every film we have scored, from 1980s horror to what is in cinemas now.
Movie Reviews5.6/10
Watchmen Review: Zack Snyder’s Superhero Epic Is Too Long to Be Brilliant
A grim tale of masked vigilantes and gods, wherein a city's shadowed corridors conceal a conspiracy that threatens the very fabric of reality.
Movie Reviews7/10
Tom Cruise Climbs the Vatican in Mission: Impossible, and the Franchise Never Surpassed It
A secret agent movie of noise and motion, wherein one man clears his name amid betrayal and peril.
Movie Reviews5.5/10
Guy Ritchie’s Snatch Is a Wild, Exhausting Ride — and Still Funny
A stolen diamond, a dog, and a man who speaks in Cockney rhyming slang—Guy Ritchie's Snatch is a whirlwind of comedy and chaos.
Movie Reviews6.7/10
Two Decades On, The Da Vinci Code Still Chases Its Own Mystery
A review of The Da Vinci Code, wherein a professor and a woman chase secrets through Paris and Rome, and the music carries the weight the script cannot.
Movie Reviews7.4/10
‘Saw’ Review: The Trap Still Works — 7.4/10
A man wakes chained in a bathroom, a wrench in his hand, and must choose between life and death in a trap that tests his will.
Movie Reviews7.3/10
In Into the Wild, Emile Hirsch’s McCandless Walks Away From Everything — and Dies Trying
A review of Into the Wild, Sean Penn's moody drama about a young man who abandons civilization for the Alaskan wilderness.
Movie Reviews7.3/10
Temple of Doom Review: A Thrilling, Flawed Middle Chapter of the Indiana Jones Trilogy
A review of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, a darker, faster entry in the franchise with a memorable train escape.
Movie Reviews4.9/10
Twenty-Seven Years On, The Mummy Still Gets Imhotep Right — and the Action Wrong
A priest wakes from stone after millennia, pursued by vengeance across desert sands, in this tale of ancient curses and forbidden love.
Movie Reviews7.5/10
The Bourne Identity Review: A Memory Wipe That Still Stings
A man wakes upon a vessel with no memory of himself, and his every encounter becomes a hunt for truth in a shadowed conspiracy.