Movie Reviews4.8/10
21 Review: A Heist Drama That Never Commits to the Heist
21 turns the MIT Blackjack Team's real story into a Vegas heist drama that invents more than it counts, and the casting fight outlasted the film.
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Every film we have scored, from 1980s horror to what is in cinemas now.
Movie Reviews5.5/10
Netflix’s time-travel adventure coasts on Ryan Reynolds and Walker Scobell’s chemistry
Review of Netflix's The Adam Project, starring Ryan Reynolds and Walker Scobell in a time-travel adventure that's watchable but forgettable.
Movie Reviews9.6/10
La Haine Review: Kassovitz’s 1995 Cannes Winner Still Cuts at 31
La Haine review: Kassovitz's 1995 Cannes winner follows Vinz, Hubert and Saïd through twenty hours in a Paris banlieue. Still essential.
Movie Reviews7.7/10
Nope Review: Peele’s Third Film Is His Most Unsettled — and Most Visually Assured
Jordan Peele's Nope (2022): OJ and Em Haywood hunt a UFO over their horse ranch. A review of spectacle, labor, and the Gordy's Home tragedy.
Movie Reviews3.9/10
The Kissing Booth 2 Review: A Sequel That Repeats Itself
Netflix's The Kissing Booth 2 runs 132 minutes and repeats the first film's love triangle, scoring 3.9/10 for a sequel that stalls instead of growing.
Movie Reviews7.2/10
Superman Returns spent 20 years being the sequel nobody asked for — and the loneliness was the point
Superman Returns review: Bryan Singer's melancholy 2006 homage to Richard Donner, with Brandon Routh, Kevin Spacey, and a shuttle rescue that still holds up.
Movie Reviews4.5/10
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls Review: Jim Carrey Commits, the Script Doesn’t
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls hit theaters Nov. 10, 1995, made $212.4M, and proved Jim Carrey's star power couldn't save a thin sequel.
Movie Reviews4.7/10
Why The Giver Explains Its Dystopia Instead of Letting You Feel It
The Giver (2014) review: Phillip Noyce's 97-minute adaptation of Lois Lowry's novel wastes Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep on a rushed, over-explained dystopia.
Movie Reviews5.9/10
Legally Blonde at 25: Reese Witherspoon Makes the Case
Reese Witherspoon's Elle Woods chases Warner to Harvard Law in Legally Blonde, a likable but slight 2001 comedy that scores 5.9 out of 10.
Movie Reviews4.1/10
Resident Evil: Extinction Review: A Road Movie with Zombies, Stuck in the Lab
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) review: Milla Jovovich crosses the Mojave with a convoy of survivors in a zombie road movie that stalls in the middle.
Movie Reviews4.4/10
Shyamalan’s The Village Wastes Its Twist on a Story That Never Earns It
A review of M. Night Shyamalan's The Village, praising Bryce Dallas Howard and James Newton Howard's score while faulting a premise that never earns its keep.
Movie Reviews6.3/10
True Lies: James Cameron’s Spy Comedy Has a Hollow Middle
A deep dive into James Cameron's True Lies, the 1994 spy comedy with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis, and why its middle never holds.