Movie Reviews4.1/10
Machete Kills Review: Rodriguez’s Messy Sequel Strains Under Its Own Weight
A one-man army battles a mad revolutionary and a villainous arms dealer in this wild, messy sequel.
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Movie Reviews6.1/10
The Faculty Review: Rodriguez’s Body-Snatcher Thriller Can’t Decide Between Horror and Teen Drama
A tale of six students who discover their teachers are possessed by alien parasites, yet the terror never fully takes hold.
Movie Reviews6.6/10
Spy Kids 2 Sends Carmen and Juni to a Bizarre Island Where Nothing Works
A review of Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, a worthy sequel sending kids to a bizarre island where gadgets fail.
Movie Reviews5.7/10
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over Still Delivers the Franchise’s Funniest Moments, Two Decades On
A review of Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, wherein Juni enters a virtual realm to rescue his sister from the malevolent Toymaker.
Movie Reviews5.9/10
Tarantino and Rodriguez Land the Jokes, Anders and Rockwell Don’t in Four Rooms
A hotel, a night, four rooms, four tales — some witty, some dull — each told by a separate director, each stranger unto the next.
Movie Reviews6/10
Sixteen Years On, Machete Still Cuts Through the Noise as a Revenge Film That Mostly Delivers
A revenge tale of blood and betrayal, wherein Machete, a famed ex-Federale, seeks vengeance upon those who betrayed him.
Movie Reviews5.8/10
Spy Kids Turns Two Kids Into Secret Agents, and the Premise Alone Justifies It
Two kids join their parents' secret agent business, chasing a villain who turns agents into tiny monsters in this spy tale.
Movie Reviews6.4/10
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For Review: A Return to Basin City That Never Justifies Its Own Existence
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For gave Eva Green and Josh Brolin two new Frank Miller stories, but mixed reviews and a $39.4M gross against $65M told a harder tale.
Movie Reviews7.1/10
The Vampire Movie That Changes Genre Halfway Through Turns 30
A retro review of From Dusk Till Dawn, the 1996 Rodriguez-Tarantino crime film that turns into a vampire siege, starring Clooney, Keitel and Salma Hayek.
Movie Reviews7.6/10
Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller Turned a Comic’s Panels Into a Crime Film’s Grammar
Sin City (2005) review: Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's neo-noir anthology, its black-and-white color processing, ensemble cast, and why it still holds up.