Movie Reviews7.1/10
Brandon Lee’s Death Hangs Over Every Frame of The Crow, 32 Years On
A review of The Crow (1994): Brandon Lee's final performance, the Devil's Night revenge story, its box office legacy, and why the sequels never landed.
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Movie Reviews7.2/10
Demon Slayer: Mugen Train Review — A Train That Feels Like a Trap, and a Fire Hashira Who Carries It
Demon Slayer: Mugen Train turns a moving carriage into a trap. A focused, well-made sequel that pays off Rengoku but assumes you already know the story.
Movie Reviews6.6/10
Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s porn-addiction comedy runs out of ideas before it runs out of film
Don Jon review: Joseph Gordon-Levitt's 2013 directorial debut about a porn-addicted bartender, with Scarlett Johansson and Julianne Moore.
Movie Reviews6.6/10
Elf Review: Will Ferrell’s Sincere Star Vehicle, Worth Watching Every December
Elf review: Will Ferrell's 2003 Christmas comedy, directed by Jon Favreau, is a very good star vehicle with a thin script. Score: 6.6/10.
Movie Reviews8.4/10
A Silent Voice: The Movie Review — Naoko Yamada’s Hard, Honest Look at Bullying and Atonement
Naoko Yamada's A Silent Voice refuses to soften its brutal opening, which is what makes the film's long walk toward forgiveness land.
Movie Reviews7.9/10
A dinner party turns on a shared phone in a 2016 film that asks how well anyone knows a friend.
Perfect Strangers (2016): seven friends share every phone message at dinner. Plot, cast, the twist ending, and the film's 24-language remake record.
Movie Reviews6.4/10
Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg’s buddy-cop comedy has a sharper idea than its gag rate can carry
The Other Guys review: Ferrell and Wahlberg play NY's least heroic cops in McKay's 2010 buddy comedy, the only Ferrell-McKay film Ferrell didn't write.
Movie Reviews5.2/10
Blow Review: A Glossy Rise-and-Fall That Never Quite Lands
Blow (2001), directed by Ted Demme and starring Johnny Depp as drug trafficker George Jung, is a glossy rise-and-fall crime drama that never stages the fall.
Movie Reviews5.3/10
Robin Hood Review: Ridley Scott’s 140-Minute Origin Story Never Lets the Outlaw Out
Ridley Scott's Robin Hood is a 140-minute origin story that never lets Robin be an outlaw, with Russell Crowe and a muddled political plot.
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.
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.