Movie Reviews4/10
Pay It Forward Review: Trevor’s Chain of Favors Is Manipulation, Not Kindness
A boy's plan to change the world through favors spins out of control in this earnest, flawed drama.
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Movie Reviews5.4/10
Clooney and Spacey Battle It Out in The Men Who Stare at Goats
A satirical tale of a U.S. Army unit that once sought to harness psychic power as a weapon of war.
Movie Reviews6.2/10
‘The Negotiator’: Jackson and Spacey Keep a Tight Siege in This Underrated Thriller
A tale of a hostage taker who frames his own partner for murder, forced to take hostages to prove his innocence.
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 Reviews7.8/10
A Bug’s Life: Pixar’s Confident Second Feature, Reviewed
A Bug's Life, Pixar's follow-up to Toy Story, opened November 25, 1998. A review of Flik, Hopper, the circus bugs, and a studio finding its footing.
Movie Reviews7.6/10
Kevin Spacey’s limp was real, and it became the twist everyone remembers
The Usual Suspects (1995): Bryan Singer's crime thriller, the Keyser Söze twist, Oscar wins for Kevin Spacey and writer Christopher McQuarrie.
Movie Reviews8.4/10
American Beauty at 27: A Cold, Tightly Written Character Study That Deserves Better Than Its Reputation
Sam Mendes' American Beauty won five Oscars. How DreamWorks wanted Willis or Travolta, why Spacey got the role, and what still holds up.
Game Reviews8/10
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare: Exo Movement, a Rewritten Engine, and the Case the Record Supports
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare arrived in 2014 with Exo movement, a rewritten engine, and Kevin Spacey. Here's what the record shows about Sledgehammer's debut.
TV Reviews7.6/10
House of Cards: The Series That Made Binge-Watching Ordinary
House of Cards dropped all 13 episodes on Netflix in 2013, reshaping how we watch TV and earning 33 Emmy nominations for Frank Underwood's ruthless rise.