Category: Verdict: 3.5

I’ve long argued that 3D wouldn’t be anything more than a fad until directors adapted their creative approach. Most 3D movies, such as Coraline…

James Wan recently announced his retirement from horror cinema, citing as his principal motivator the fear of being typecast as a scary movie director….

Somewhere in Iron Man 2 lies a compelling drama about a larger-than-life industrialist turned super-hero struggling with his all too humbling mortality. Unfortunately, to…

In terms of storytelling, Jack Reacher can best be described as a hardboiled pot-boiler. If the elements of my gratuitous alliteration strike you as…

With Hollywood marketing budgets reaching over $100 million per blockbuster, it’s easy to get the impression that cinema trades exclusively in bloated, effects-heavy escapist…

Reviewing the pilot for Major Crimes feels a bit like writing about a random episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. TNT has advertised the…

I often compare horror flicks to modern fairy tales, but no filmmaker blurs the line between these two genres more convincingly than Guillermo Del…

Man of Steel presents a version of Superman that I didn’t care to see but that, in the course of its 143-minute runtime, I…

I often wonder why Sam Worthington keeps landing starring roles. Sure, he’s got chiseled abs, a perfect chin, and enough charisma to get noticed…

In the last couple years, Will Smith has tried so hard to distance himself from his nineties’ Will Smith persona that I’d all but…