Movie Reviews8.1/10
Battle Royale Review: Kinji Fukasaku’s Brutal Dystopia Still Cuts Deep
A grim tale of a nation's youth condemned to battle each other upon a desolate isle, wherein trust and life become one price.
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Category: Movie Reviews
Every film we have scored, from 1980s horror to what is in cinemas now.
Movie Reviews3.4/10
Vin Diesel’s Immortal Witch Hunter Premise Gets Lost in Over-Explained Chaos
A review of The Last Witch Hunter, a bloated fantasy film where exposition outweighs story and Vin Diesel's charisma can't save it.
Movie Reviews9.2/10
Texas Chain Saw Massacre Review: A Lean, Mean Horror Machine
A grave robbery, a chained corpse, and a family of cannibals in rural Texas. A tale of terror, told without mercy.
Movie Reviews2.6/10
Dolittle Review: A Star-Studded Cast Wastes Its Time on a Talking Animal Mess
A man who speaks to beasts sets sail to cure a dying queen, but the tale grows dull and tedious.
Movie Reviews6.4/10
‘DodgeBall’ Review: Vince Vaughn’s Underdog Comedy Wins the Ball Game
A tale of a small gym owner who rallies a band of oddballs to battle a corporate foe in a grand tournament of dodgeball.
Movie Reviews6.9/10
A Severed Hand, A Dead Mother: Talk to Me Makes Grief a Ritual of Terror
A hand whispers secrets, and a daughter dares to listen to the dead. Talk to Me reviews the terror of grief and possession.
Movie Reviews9.7/10
Bill Skarsgård Plays Orlok as a Tragic Beast in Eggers’ Reimagining of Nosferatu
A remake of Murnau's Nosferatu, wherein a count of darkness and a maiden bound by fate succumb to a horror beyond dread.
Movie Reviews4.8/10
Step Up Review: Tatum and Dewan Dance Past a Thin Script
A tale of a vandal and a dancer whose fates intertwine at the Maryland School of the Arts in this dance drama.
Movie Reviews4.2/10
Stargate Review: A Million Light Years From Home, but Never Quite Back
A ring of stars opens a gate to a distant world ruled by a false god-king, in a tale of wonder and woe.
Movie Reviews4.6/10
Ted Searches for Trees While the Once-ler Tells the Lorax’s Sad Tale
A tale of Thneedville, where a boy seeks a tree to win a girl's heart, and the Lorax warns of ruin wrought by greed.
Movie Reviews6.9/10
Sisters Beth and Ellie Battle Deadites Through a Walled Apartment in Evil Dead Rise
Two estranged sisters must fight Deadites rising through their Los Angeles apartment building in this fast, funny sequel.
Movie Reviews3.7/10
Guy Moshe’s The Fix Trades Substantive Stakes for Hollow Spectacle
A hollow tale of vengeance in Tehran, wherein spectacle surpasses substance, leaving naught but a fleeting thrill.