Movie Reviews7.2/10
Match Point: Woody Allen’s Cold, Precise Thriller of Morality and Greed
Woody Allen's Match Point (2005) sends a retired tennis pro into London's class system, where lust, money and a shotgun decide everything.
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Movie Reviews6.9/10
Rob Marshall’s Into the Woods Cuts the Darkness Out of Sondheim
Into the Woods (2014): Disney's Sondheim musical with Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt, Rob Marshall directing. Review, plot, cast, and where the film stumbles.
Movie Reviews6.5/10
GoldenEye Review: Brosnan’s Debut Is a Solid, Half-Rebooted Bond
GoldenEye review: Pierce Brosnan's 1995 Bond debut, Judi Dench as the first female M, Sean Bean as 006, and a franchise reboot that half works.
Movie Reviews6.3/10
Mel Gibson’s Revolutionary War epic is competent, rousing and empty at its core
Roland Emmerich's The Patriot (2000) is a 165-minute revenge epic with a hollow center — Gibson, Ledger and Isaacs shine, but the history doesn't hold up.
Movie Reviews4/10
Warner Bros. admitted the sequel was a rehash — and the tagline says so
Horrible Bosses 2 review: the 2014 sequel repeats the first film's crime with a bigger cast, and wastes Chris Pine and Christoph Waltz on a thin script.
Movie Reviews8.5/10
Park Chan-wook Built The Handmaiden’s Deception Into Its Sets
Park Chan-wook's The Handmaiden turns a 1930s Korean con story into a shifting-vantage romance. A review of the twists, the cast and why it still holds up.
Movie Reviews9.6/10
Rosemary’s Baby at 58: Mia Farrow, Ruth Gordon and the Horror of Not Being Believed
A spoiler-rich review of Rosemary's Baby, Roman Polanski's 1968 classic with Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes and Ruth Gordon's Oscar-winning turn.
Movie Reviews1.7/10
Underworld: Evolution: A 1.7/10 Sequel That Explains Instead of Dramatizes
Underworld: Evolution review — the 2006 sequel explains its own backstory instead of dramatizing it, scoring 1.7 of 10 despite Kate Beckinsale.
Movie Reviews5.6/10
The DUFF Review: Mae Whitman Shines in a Near-Miss Teen Comedy
A review of The DUFF (2015), the teen comedy starring Mae Whitman, and why its sharp premise never becomes the movie it deserved.
Movie Reviews4.3/10
American Wedding: The Franchise Runs Out of Reasons to Exist
American Wedding review: Jim and Michelle finally marry in the 2003 franchise finale, a thinner, lower-grossing comedy that runs out of reasons to exist.
Movie Reviews4.7/10
In the Heart of the Sea Review: Ron Howard’s Whale Tale Never Earns Its Tagline
Ron Howard's In the Heart of the Sea sank $100M into the Essex whale story and grossed $94.3M. A review of the 2015 film's failures.
Movie Reviews5.7/10
Mama review: a terrifying short stretched into a decent feature
Mama (2013), Andy Muschietti's debut, scares for an hour before explaining its ghost. A review of the Jessica Chastain horror hit.