Movie Reviews5.5/10
Hostel at 20: Eli Roth’s Provocation Has One Good Idea and No Interest in Examining It
Eli Roth's Hostel (2006) turns from crude backpacker comedy into a dungeon torture machine. A review of its craft, casting, and one good idea.
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Movie Reviews4.8/10
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi Review — Michael Bay’s Loud, Uneven Tribute
Michael Bay's 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi is watchable but flattens real men into symbols, says this 4.8/10 review.
Movie Reviews6.2/10
Begin Again Review: Carney’s Music Drama Gets Halfway to a Love Letter
A review of John Carney's Begin Again, starring Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo — a music drama with one great idea and a hero it forgives too easily.
Tenzing Review: Apple TV’s Biopic Finally Makes Tenzing Norgay the Hero of His Own Story
A biopic gives Tenzing Norgay back his full story, his humanity, at TIFF — husband, father, climber, dreamer.
Movie Reviews3.4/10
The Tartan Prancer Is an Albanian Minivan With Too Many Buttons and No Clear Purpose
Vacation (2015) review: Ed Helms leads the Griswolds to Walley World in a 99-minute road trip that piles on gags but forgets the joke.
Movie Reviews5.6/10
Jason Statham’s Second Transporter Hands the Wheel to a Kid and Lets Chaos Drive
Transporter 2 review: Jason Statham drives Louis Leterrier's 2005 sequel through Miami with a good engine and no steering. Score: 5.6 of 10.
Movie Reviews7.2/10
The Coens Send a Studio Fixer to Clean Up Their Golden Age Hollywood
Hail, Caesar! review: the Coen brothers bury a kidnapping plot under studio-fixer texture, with Josh Brolin, George Clooney and a deep 1950s cast.
Movie Reviews5.7/10
Al Pacino’s blind colonel carries a so-so movie to its best picture win
A deep dive into Martin Brest's Scent of a Woman: Al Pacino's Oscar-winning turn, the tango, the Jaguar prank, and why the film still divides critics.
Movie Reviews6.3/10
Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers still has nothing to say about spring break
Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers reviewed: four college girls rob a restaurant, meet Alien in St. Petersburg, and chase a neon American Dream.
Movie Reviews6.7/10
The Darjeeling Limited Review: Wes Anderson’s Train Journey Finds Its Ache Behind the Itinerary
Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited sends three estranged brothers across India by train, and the itinerary falls apart. Our review: 6.7/10.
Movie Reviews5.4/10
M. Night Shyamalan Wrote a Killer Premise, Then Spent the Whole Movie Explaining It
A review of M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening (2008), the plant-toxin thriller that made $163 million and still failed to explain itself.
Movie Reviews4/10
Back for Seconds”: Meg 2: The Trench Is a Waste of a Good Monster”
Meg 2: The Trench review: Jason Statham returns for a bigger shark and a smaller script, as a mining conspiracy sinks Ben Wheatley's sequel.