Movie Reviews5.6/10
Waterworld’s reputation as a disaster doesn’t survive a rewatch
Waterworld at 30: not the flop the headlines promised, not a buried classic — a mid-tier blockbuster with a great premise and a script that never earns it.
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Every film we have scored, from 1980s horror to what is in cinemas now.
Movie Reviews6.2/10
Saw IV Keeps Its Traps but Loses the Tension That Made Them Work
Saw IV (2007) review: Jigsaw is dead but his games continue. The autopsy tape, Rigg's 90 minutes, and why the franchise's fourth film feels like a checklist.
Movie Reviews5.8/10
Teresa Palmer’s Horror Debut Has One Trick and Uses It Well
Review: David F. Sandberg's 81-minute horror film turns one rule — the woman in the dark can't reach you in the light — into a thin but effective scare.
Movie Reviews4.8/10
Leonardo DiCaprio Plays Twins, but the Real Prisoner Is the Film’s Tone
A 1998 swashbuckler with Leonardo DiCaprio as twins and a dream musketeer cast — Irons, Malkovich, Depardieu, Byrne — that never decides what it is.
Movie Reviews5.6/10
DreamWorks sequel parks its prehistoric family behind a wall and lets the neighbours do the talking
The Croods: A New Age moves the prehistoric family into a walled paradise, aiming for tolerance but landing on real estate and condescension.
Movie Reviews9.5/10
One Battle After Another: Paul Thomas Anderson Finally Adapts Pynchon, and It Earns Every Minute
Paul Thomas Anderson's Pynchon-inspired epic One Battle After Another won six Oscars, including Best Picture, and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn.
Movie Reviews6.7/10
As Good as It Gets: A Well-Built Film with a Real Performance and a Real Problem
As Good as It Gets gave Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt Oscars, but the film's use of bigotry as comedy keeps it from earning its happy ending.
Movie Reviews6.4/10
The Grey Review: Wolves as Weather, a Man as a Question
The Grey review: Liam Neeson fights wolves and grief in Joe Carnahan's 2012 survival film, praised for its first act and argued over for its ending.
Movie Reviews5.6/10
Falling Down: Michael Douglas’s Rage Has No Place Left to Go
Michael Douglas plays an unemployed man who abandons his car in LA traffic and spirals into violence in Joel Schumacher's 1993 film Falling Down.
Movie Reviews2.8/10
47 Ronin Review: A $151.8 Million Gamble That Never Pays Off
47 Ronin review: Keanu Reeves leads a $151.8 million fantasy misfire that buries Japan's Chūshingura revenge tale under witches, kirin and golems.
Movie Reviews6.1/10
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Review — A 6.1 Magic Trick That Becomes a Flowchart
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch review — Netflix's interactive film, its branching paths, 35-day shoot, and why 6.1 out of 10 is the right score.
Movie Reviews5.9/10
Chicken Little: Disney’s First Fully Computer-Animated Feature, 21 Years On
Chicken Little (2005) was Disney's first fully computer-animated feature and the first mainstream Digital 3-D release. It grossed $314 million on mixed reviews.