Category: Verdict: 4.5

I’m always a bit shocked when I hear American liberals mock their conservative brethren for lacking in self-criticism. To me, that’s a bit like…

Scream 2 uses a simple argument as its starting point: sequels are by design creatively bankrupt cash grabs that can only shame the original…

Most movies dealing with mental illness portray it in one of two fashions: as kooky personality quirks to be embraced and even celebrated or…

Great motion pictures are often harder to review than bad ones. It’s not, as Brad Bird’s Ratatouille (2007) suggests, that critics thrive on negativity,…

Movies like Danny Boyle’s Sunshine should be on the endangered species list. Their ecosystem is being ravaged by box-office predators with bloated budgets, endless…

Back in 2012, I was disheartened to find the critical community united in its disdain for The Amazing Spider-Man. As reviewers from the four…

Here’s what you need to know about Edwin Arlington Robinson’s The Children of the Night. The 1897 collection includes “Richard Cory”, the poet’s most

Somebody has finally got the Saw (2004) concept right, though I find it ironic it’d be Marcus Dunstan, who, along with Patrick Melton, penned…

Aristotle defines the literary genre of tragedy as “an imitation of serious subjects in a grand kind of verse”. According to the Greek philosopher

As the end credits of The Hunger Games rolled before me, a question came to mind: with this story on the shelves since 2008,…