Movie Reviews3.9/10
‘Life As We Know It’: A Baby, a Wedding Dress, and a Romance That Never Arrives
A comedy about two adults who inherit a child, but fails to earn its own tragic premise.
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Category: Movie Reviews
Every film we have scored, from 1980s horror to what is in cinemas now.
Movie Reviews7.3/10
Dark City Review: A Flawed Masterpiece That Understands Its Own Strangeness
A man awakens in a dark city, pursued by pale strangers who rule the night, in Alex Proyas's haunting 1998 thriller.
Movie Reviews7.2/10
Julianne Moore Plays a Woman Losing Her Words, and Still Alice Earns Its Sadness
A tragic tale of a learned lady whose words abandon her, a story of memory, loss, and the dignity of suffering.
Movie Reviews6.4/10
The Perfect Date Review: A Funny Satire That Can’t Commit to Its Romance
A teen romance about a dating app that hires a stand-in boyfriend, reviewed for its satire and its troubled romance.
Movie Reviews8.5/10
Pop Star Trades Singing for Acting in Perfect Blue, and Reality Crumbles
A pop star's exit spirals into nightmare as identity, performance, and the thin line between stage and soul unravel.
Movie Reviews4.2/10
Statham and Lopez Can’t Save Parker’s Thin Script
A thief betrayed by his own crew seeks vengeance in Parker, a tale of deception and retribution.
Movie Reviews8.2/10
A Vampire Film From 2008 Still Earns Its Place as a Teen Romance
A vampire tale turned love story, wherein a boy and a girl bound by blood grow ever closer amid terror.
Movie Reviews2.9/10
‘Red Riding Hood’ Refuses to Decide Between Fairy Tale, Horror and Romance — and Loses All Three
A tale of a village, a wolf, and a girl named Valerie — all wrong, none right, a sorry failure.
Movie Reviews8.6/10
Paolo Sorrentino’s ‘The Great Beauty’: A Love Letter to Rome’s Absurd Splendor
A review of Paolo Sorrentino's La grande bellezza, starring Toni Servillo as a Roman writer trapped in a life of shallow pleasures.
Movie Reviews7/10
Despicable Me 4 Adds a Cockroach Nemesis and a Super-Minion Team — and Dilutes Its Own Stakes
Gru faces a former classmate in Despicable Me 4, a sequel that's funny in patches but never reaches the heights of the films before it.
Movie Reviews6.7/10
Lethal Weapon 3 Review: The Magic Is Back, but Familiar
Lethal Weapon 3 brings Riggs and Murtaugh back for a wild chase against a former officer turned arms dealer. A solid, if familiar, entry.