Movie Reviews5.8/10
Eighteen Years On, the Dying City of Ember Still Offers Only an Empty Escape
A sealed city, a failing generator, and two teens who dare to leave it behind. A tale of dread, told without terror.
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Movie Reviews6.4/10
Frozen Empire Review: The Orbs, the Possessors, and the Ghostbusters Who Return
A sequel of many parts: Ghostbusters returns, orb and Possessor alike threaten a frozen empire, and a young girl's bond with a ghost anchors the tale.
Movie Reviews8.6/10
Rushmore Review: Wes Anderson’s Debut Still Earns Its Sad Laughter 28 Years On
A tragic comedy about a brilliant boy named Max who cannot stop trying, and the man who teaches him to fail.
Movie Reviews5.3/10
A Zombie Movie That Keeps Asking What a Zombie Movie Even Means
A dead man's tale of a small town where the dead walk again, told with wit and dread.
Movie Reviews6.2/10
Steve Zissou’s Shark Revenge Sails Through on Bill Murray’s Boat, Flounders on Land
A strange, sad sea journey with Bill Murray as Zissou, a man whose documentaries grow smaller since loss of his partner.
Game Reviews7/10
The Ghostbusters Game That Wrote a Third Film, Then Got Overwritten
Ghostbusters: The Video Game (2009) reunited Aykroyd, Ramis and Murray as writers and voice cast. A look at the Proton Pack combat, version split and legacy.
Movie Reviews5.6/10
Ghostbusters II sequel reassessment: a franchise revival that never finds its purpose
Ghostbusters II reunited the team five years after Gozer, but the sequel never decides what the comeback should mean. A review of the 1989 film.
Movie Reviews9.1/10
Lost in Translation: Sofia Coppola’s Quiet Masterpiece of Alienation and Connection
Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation, shot in 27 days for $4 million with Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson in Tokyo, still plays like nothing else from 2003.
Movie Reviews7.2/10
Groundhog Day at 33: Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, and the Time Loop That Still Works
Groundhog Day review: how Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and a time loop turned one joke into the strangest mainstream comedy of the 1990s.
Movie Reviews8.9/10
The zombie comedy that lets its survivors grieve
Zombieland review: Fleischer's 88-minute debut, Harrelson's Twinkie hunt, Eisenberg's rules, and the Bill Murray cameo that stole the movie.
Movie Reviews7.8/10
Ghostbusters Holds Up Because It Never Winks at Its Own Ghosts
A review of Ghostbusters (1984), the Ivan Reitman comedy about three fired parapsychologists who save New York with proton packs and a firehouse.