Movie Reviews4.8/10
Small Soldiers Review: Toys Take Over a Defense Contract, and the Satire Never Arrives
A tale of toy soldiers imbued with military processors that run amok, a satire of commerce and greed that never quite commits.
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Every film we have scored, from 1980s horror to what is in cinemas now.
Movie Reviews5.8/10
‘The Firm’ Review: Tom Cruise Walks Into a Trap, and the Movie Carries Him Through It
A young lawyer walks into a trap in Memphis, betrayed by loyalty and secrets in a firm of dark power.
Movie Reviews3.4/10
Thirteen Years On, The Smurfs 2 Still Wastes Its Talented Voice Cast
A sequel that grows too loud and thin, wasting a cast of many voices upon a tale that never finds its true heart.
Movie Reviews6.1/10
Reynolds Anchors a Competent, Unremarkable Remake of The Amityville Horror
A haunted house, a broken family, and a father who falls apart inside it — a remake that misses its mark.
Movie Reviews6.1/10
Trance Trades the Heist for a Hypnotherapy Session — and It Mostly Works
A heist film that becomes a hypnotherapy session with a gun. A study of obsession, memory, and the lies we tell ourselves.
Movie Reviews7.2/10
Stone and Plemons Kidnap a CEO in Lanthimos’s Unsettling ‘Bugonia’
A remake of Save the Green Planet! wherein a conspiracy theorist kidnaps a CEO, believing her an alien bent on Earth's ruin.
Movie Reviews5.7/10
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over Still Delivers the Franchise’s Funniest Moments, Two Decades On
A review of Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, wherein Juni enters a virtual realm to rescue his sister from the malevolent Toymaker.
Movie Reviews4.6/10
She’s Out of My League: Good Idea, Weak Execution
A nervous TSA agent falls for a gorgeous party planner, but the film never resolves its own premise.
Movie Reviews4.9/10
Hook Abducts Wendy’s Daughter in Disney Sequel Return to Never Land
A skeptical girl must learn to believe in Neverland once Hook abducts her, in this modest sequel to the 1953 Disney classic.
Movie Reviews7.6/10
‘The Woman King’: Viola Davis and Thuso Mbedu Anchor a Mother-Daughter Epic That Earns Its 7.6
A tale of a mother and daughter bound by war and duty, wherein the heart beats louder than the clash of swords.
Movie Reviews5.5/10
Flatliners Stops Its Heart But Can’t Stop the Sins: 5.5/10
A tale of five students who stop their hearts to see the afterlife, wherein the terror promised is but a faint shadow of dread.
Movie Reviews6.3/10
Case 39 Review: Lillith’s Demonic Possession Turns Emily’s House Into Hell
A social worker takes in a troubled child, only to learn she carries a terror that consumes all within her shadow.