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Found-Footage Horror Became a Real Phenomenon When Three Students Vanished Into the Woods
How three unknown actors, a 35-page script and eight days of shooting made The Blair Witch Project a found-footage and marketing landmark.
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Movie Reviews6.5/10
Jennifer Garner Carries a Body-Swap Comedy That Loses Its Nerve Before the Credits
A review of 13 Going on 30 (2004): Jennifer Garner's wish-fulfillment comedy has a clever premise, a sharp 1987 opening, and an ending that stops short.
Movie Reviews3.4/10
Stephen King’s Gunslinger Saga Got One Film and Then Stopped
The Dark Tower runs 95 minutes and tries to compress eight Stephen King novels. Idris Elba shines, but the 2017 film scores just 3.4/10.
Movie Reviews4.2/10
Zhang Yimou’s Monster Movie Is All Spectacle and No Stakes
Zhang Yimou's The Great Wall promised monsters and Matt Damon, then lost up to $75 million. A review of the 2016 siege film that never found its people.
Movie Reviews4.8/10
National Treasure: Book of Secrets: A Franchise Coasting on Cipher and Habit
National Treasure: Book of Secrets review: Nicolas Cage hunts a Civil War cipher, Helen Mirren and Ed Harris join in, and the franchise coasts on formula.
Movie Reviews6.3/10
Les Misérables (2012): Great Voices, One Bad One, and a Camera That Would Not Back Off
Review of Tom Hooper's Les Misérables: Hugh Jackman shines, Russell Crowe doesn't, and Anne Hathaway's Fantine is the film's saving grace.
Movie Reviews5.1/10
Starship Troopers (1997): Verhoeven’s Satire Fails to Land
Starship Troopers review: Verhoeven's $100M satire of fascism fails to land, saved only by strong Arachnid effects and a 5.1/10 score.
Movie Reviews5.5/10
Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway’s chemistry can’t save a romance that mistakes cynicism for depth
Love & Other Drugs (2010) review: Gyllenhaal and Hathaway sell pharma romance, but Zwick's film dodges its own best ideas. Score: 5.5/10.
Movie Reviews4.9/10
Escape Plan (2013): Stallone and Schwarzenegger’s First Co-Lead Outing Lands at 4.9/10
Escape Plan (2013) review: Stallone and Schwarzenegger share top billing for the first time in a prison thriller with one great idea and a 4.9/10 score.
Movie Reviews8.8/10
Poor Things: Emma Stone’s Bella Baxter Carries Lanthimos’s Strange, Liberating Vision
Yorgos Lanthimos's Poor Things, starring Emma Stone as Bella Baxter, won the Golden Lion and four Oscars. A plot breakdown, cast, box office, and review.
Movie Reviews7.8/10
Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy Sequel Finds Its Soul in the Monsters, Not the Hero
Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II: The Golden Army review: Ron Perlman, Luke Goss, troll market, Oscar makeup, $168.3M gross, and why the sequel still works.
Movie Reviews4.2/10
The Adoption Horror Movie That Made a Twist Out of a Woman’s Grief
A review of Orphan (2009), Jaume Collet-Serra's psychological horror film starring Vera Farmiga, scoring 4.2/10 for wasted talent and a weak twist.