Movie Reviews3.9/10
Alvin and the Chipmunks Review: A Licensing Exercise With a Runtime
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) review: three singing chipmunks, a broke songwriter, and a record deal gone wrong. Jason Lee and David Cross star. 3.9/10.
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Movie Reviews6.4/10
The Wedding Crashers Comedy Stalls Once the Wedding Season Ends
Wedding Crashers review: Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn shine early, but a flat second act and the Gloria subplot sink the 2005 R-rated comedy
Margaret Qualley Drags Her Grief Through a Shallow, Pretty Healer Road Trip
A nurse wanders Lisbon, London and Tokyo after losing her partner; a review finds the grief sincere yet surface-level.
Movie Reviews4.5/10
Cameron Crowe’s Reality-Bending Thriller Still Won’t Explain Itself
A review of Cameron Crowe's 2001 sci-fi thriller Vanilla Sky, starring Tom Cruise and Penélope Cruz, and why its puzzle-box plot never quite lands.
Movie Reviews7.9/10
The Fighter” Review: A Very Good Film About One Family, Carried by Two Actors”
David O. Russell's The Fighter turned Micky Ward's Lowell story into Oscar gold for Christian Bale and Melissa Leo. A review of the 2010 sports drama.
Movie Reviews9/10
Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Spielberg’s First Contact Classic Still Earns Its 9.0
Close Encounters of the Third Kind review: Spielberg's 1977 sci-fi classic about Roy Neary, obsession, and contact as witness, not war. Score: 9/10.
Movie Reviews4.7/10
Godzilla and Kong Share the Screen Again, and the Movie Can’t Decide What to Do With Them
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire review: Adam Wingard's Monsterverse team-up keeps its titans apart too long and never earns its own tagline.
Movie Reviews7.3/10
Antz at 28: A Sharp Political Fable Wrapped in a Star-Vehicle Comedy
Antz, DreamWorks' 1998 debut, sends Woody Allen's anxious worker ant through a colony coup. A sharp political fable wrapped in a star-vehicle comedy.
Movie Reviews5.2/10
Con Air Review: A Great B-Movie Premise That Never Quite Lands
Con Air (1997) review: Nicolas Cage, John Malkovich and a plane full of killers. A great B-movie premise undone by tonal whiplash. Score: 5.2/10.
Movie Reviews6/10
The Hannibal Lecter Prequel That Plays It Safe
Brett Ratner's 2002 prequel to The Silence of the Lambs: Edward Norton, Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Fiennes, and why it's competent but never strange.
Critics Call ‘Resident Evil’ Zach Cregger’s Bloody Horror One of the Year’s Strongest Movie Adaptations
Critics call Zach Cregger's Resident Evil reboot 'gloriously gory' and one of the best video game adaptations ever.
Movie Reviews9.8/10
A Fistful of Dollars: Leone’s 1964 Western at 9.8/10
Sergio Leone's 1964 Western A Fistful of Dollars made Clint Eastwood a star for $15,000. A review of the film, its plot, and the Kurosawa lawsuit.