Review: Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo and Newcomer Walker Scobell Give an Overly Simplified The Adam Project Enough Charm to Uplift
The director (Shawn Levy, Real Steel and The Night at the Museum movies) and the star (Ryan Reynolds) of last year’s…
Review: Netflix’s Bloated, Soulless Red Notice Has Stars and Style, Just None of the Substance
Before he made action pieces like Skyscraper and the current Red Notice, writer/director Rawson Marshall Thurber made Dodgeball and We’re…
Review: Set in a Video Game World, Free Guy Features Vibrant Visuals But Mediocre Humor
The challenge I’ve always put to filmmakers who choose to adapt a video game into a movie is to make…
Review: F9 is More Furious than Fast, an Overstuffed Entry in an Overlong Franchise
Is it my imagination, or do most of the Fast & Furious movies spend about a third of their running…
Review: Aggressively Abrasive and Unfunny, The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard is Uncompromisingly Bad
If you could obtain a copy of the screenplay for The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, I bet you’d discover that it…
Review: Unremarkable Storytelling of The Croods: A New Age is Elevated by a Funny, Energetic Cast
The Croods movies were always a little smarter than they let on, probably because the characters themselves are meant to…
Review: No Pokémon? No Problem. Detective Pikachu is Still Fun for the Unfamiliar
I am fully aware and am happy to acknowledge that I am the absolute wrong audience for a movie set…
Review: Once Upon a Deadpool Tones Down The Snark and Violence…A Little
I’m sure many of you rolled your eyes so far back in your head they almost got stuck there the…
Review: Deadpool 2 Delivers a Sequel with Plenty to Chew On
Even the plot summary for Deadpool 2 is amusing: “Searching to regain his spice for life, as well as a…
Film Review: Life, A Solid B-movie With an A-list Cast
A B-movie with a largely A-list cast, the science-fiction monster movie Life probably works best as a place holder until…
