Movie Reviews5/10
American Ultra Review: Great Idea, Poor Execution
A stoner discovers he is a government assassin in this action-comedy, but the execution fails to match the premise.
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Every film we have scored, from 1980s horror to what is in cinemas now.
Movie Reviews2.4/10
Highlander Review: A Cult Classic Built on Nothing
A tale of immortals, wherein one warrior seeks to survive the quickening, though the tale itself never truly earns its own fame.
Movie Reviews9.4/10
Gloria Swanson’s Sunset Boulevard Remains One of Cinema’s Greatest Masterpieces
A dead man in a pool, a mansion, a faded star, and a script that never dies. Sunset Boulevard endures as a masterpiece of cinema.
Movie Reviews5.5/10
Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan Face Off in The Foreigner, a Solid but Uneven Revenge Thriller
A furious father seeks vengeance against the men who took his daughter's life, in a tale of bombs, betrayal, and the price of never giving up.
Movie Reviews7/10
‘The Little Prince’: Stop-Motion Magic, a Framing Story That Can’t Decide What It Wants
A review of Mark Osborne's animated 'Little Prince,' blending stop-motion and CGI tales of a boy's crash in the Sahara and a girl's stifled childhood.
Movie Reviews8.3/10
Tom Hardy Drives From Birmingham to London While Everything in His Life Falls Apart
A man drives from Birmingham to London while his entire world crumbles into ruin, in a tale of dread and resolve.
Movie Reviews7.9/10
‘Green Room’ Review: Five Musicians, One Room, No Escape
A small horror film traps a punk band in a green room as neo-Nazis hunt them down. A tense, brutal thriller.
Movie Reviews3.3/10
Skeeter’s Bedtime Stories Come True — and So Does the Film’s Weakness
A hotel handyman's bedtime tales turn true, yet his wit cannot save the film from its own thin design.
Movie Reviews3/10
Two Men Dress as Police Officers and the Joke Quickly Goes Wrong
Two friends pretend to be cops for a college reunion and get caught up in a dangerous crime thriller that never works.
Movie Reviews7.3/10
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut Review — Four Boys, One Mouth Full of Swearing
A review of South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, a comedy about censors, war, and a prophet's invasion of Earth.
Movie Reviews10/10
‘The Man from Earth’: A Perfect Film About a Man Who Has Lived Too Long
A man claims to be 14,000 years old in this quiet chamber of conversation, a perfect tale of belief and doubt.
Movie Reviews5.1/10
Gilliam’s Fairy-Tale Horror Works Until It Starts Talking to Itself
A dark fairy tale of two grifters who find a real curse in the haunted forest — a gingerbread man and a magic mirror haunt this tale.