Movie Reviews6.7/10
The Polar Express at 22: A $165 Million Bet on Motion Capture That Never Quite Paid Off
The Polar Express cost $165M and earned $329M, but its motion-capture faces never settled. A 6.7 review of Zemeckis's Christmas gamble.
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Movie Reviews4.8/10
Angels & Demons Review: A Good Clock, No Pulse
Angels & Demons review: Tom Hanks returns as Robert Langdon in Ron Howard's Vatican countdown thriller, with Ewan McGregor and Stellan Skarsgård.
Movie Reviews8.2/10
Captain Phillips: Greengrass Turns a Hijacking Into a Procedural
Captain Phillips review: Tom Hanks and Barkhad Abdi in Paul Greengrass's 134-minute hijacking drama, its $220.6M run and six Oscar nominations.
Movie Reviews5.5/10
Cloud Atlas: An Ambitious, Uneven Epic That Wins One Bet and Loses Five
Cloud Atlas at 172 minutes spans six eras and centuries. A review of the Wachowskis' ambitious independent epic, its cast, and what actually holds.
Movie Reviews7.4/10
Sully Review: Hanks, Eckhart, and a Case Built Against a Hero
Clint Eastwood's Sully turns the Miracle on the Hudson into a case against its hero. Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, and a flawed NTSB villain, reviewed.
Movie Reviews5.5/10
The Terminal Review: 128 Minutes of Pleasant Waiting
A review of Steven Spielberg's The Terminal (2004), starring Tom Hanks as stranded traveler Viktor Navorski at JFK. Well-acted but weightless. 5.5/10.
Movie Reviews6.7/10
Robert Langdon’s First Movie Outing Is a Competent, Watchable Thriller That Never Quite Thrills
Ron Howard's 2006 adaptation of Dan Brown's novel is a brisk, well-cast puzzle hunt through Paris that never quite thrills.
Movie Reviews7.4/10
Cast Away review: Tom Hanks carries a good movie that keeps tripping over its own frame
Cast Away review: Tom Hanks carries a good movie that keeps tripping over its own frame, from the island years to the Memphis ending.
Movie Reviews8/10
Toy Story at 31: Pixar’s First Feature Is Still the Cleanest Argument for Computer Animation
Toy Story premiered November 19, 1995. A look at Pixar's first feature, its Woody and Buzz casting, the halted script, and why it still holds up.