Movie Reviews2.9/10
Aliens vs Predator: Requiem Review — A Premise Wasted on Bad Execution
A Predator comes to Earth to clean up an Alien outbreak, but the film's bad lighting, fragmented editing, and wasted premise make it a failure.
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Category: Movie Reviews
Every film we have scored, from 1980s horror to what is in cinemas now.
Movie Reviews2.5/10
‘A Cinderella Story’: A Failure of Execution
A Cinderella Story review: a simple premise, a stretched dance, and stereotypes dressed as people. A failure.
Movie Reviews6.7/10
T2 Trainspotting Review: Renton Returns Home as Old Friends Face Their Demons
A sequel reunites a crew of old friends, each still bound by the sins of youth, in a tale of betrayal, ruin, and a brothel scheme.
Movie Reviews7/10
Philippe Petit Walks Between the Twin Towers in Robert Zemeckis’ The Walk
A man walks between two towers upon a slender rope, a tale of daring, love, and the terror of great heights.
Movie Reviews4.1/10
House of Wax Review: A Killer, Some Wax, and No Scare Left Behind
A tale of wax and terror wherein a museum's master traps his prey within lifelike figures, yet the fright proves feeble.
Movie Reviews6.4/10
Friday the 13th Review: A Killer, Eight Victims, and One Score That Mostly Works
A grim camp tale of unseen terror, wherein youth perish one by one ere dawn. A review of the classic horror film.
Movie Reviews5.4/10
Memoirs of a Geisha: Beautiful to Look At, Empty Inside
A tale of a girl sold into servitude in Gion, whose beauty cannot redeem a hollow heart nor mend a wounded land.
Movie Reviews4.5/10
‘The Scorpion King’: A Legend’s Origin Story That Never Quite Earns Its Ambition
A peasant of Akkad swears vengeance upon Memnon, and the desert yields neither mercy nor legend.
Movie Reviews7.9/10
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Review: Shadow Brings the Dark to Team Sonic
Sonic 3 brings Shadow into the fold, darkening the franchise without losing its family-friendly charm. Ben Schwartz, Jim Carrey, and Keanu Reeves deliver.
Movie Reviews4/10
28 Years On, Deep Impact Still Gets the Comet Right — and the Grief Wrong
A comet threatens Earth, yet Deep Impact's tale of terror and hope never fully coalesces into greatness.
Movie Reviews4.4/10
The Ninth Gate Review: Corso Hunts the Devil’s Book, and the Scares Arrive Late
A rare book hunter, a demon-summoning tome, and a chase across Europe gone wrong. A tale of dread and disappointment.
Movie Reviews3.1/10
Happy Gilmore Review: 400-Yard Swings, No Sense of Humor
A man with a great blow upon the green, whose fury and scorn bring laughter, yet leave little else behind.