The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Texas hills are again alive with the sound of chainsaws.

"...Platinum Dunes production company, and while it’s far from bad, it also falls far short of the icy frissons..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

White Oleander

"...Alison Lohman. The metaphoric title about the danger in beautiful things sounds like something from Byron or Keats, but..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Boys to Men

"...Directed by: Various. No, it's not a documentary explaining everything you need to know about the recent, and seemingly..."

July 13, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Town & Country

"...nominations among them) could contribute to such a catastrophically bad film … and it's little surprise that most of..."

May 4, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Traffic

"...here the images are an almost jaundiced, washed-out ochre. Everything looks as though it were terribly ill and not..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Solas

"...family's internal struggle to maintain in the face of bad, black luck. There's a hint of Lorca in Zambrano's..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Plunkett & Macleane

"...steals from the best -- there are elements of everything from Bonnie and Clyde to Butch Cassidy and the..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mighty Peking Man

This 1977 Shaw Brothers production from Hong Kong is a gleefully silly riff on everything monster movies and was re-released under the auspices of Quentin Tarantino in 1999.

"...from Hong Kong is a gleefully silly riff on everything from King Kong and Mighty Joe Young to Edgar..."

April 23, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Enemy of the State

"...State is littered with echoes of previous thrillers -- everything from The Conversation to The Parallax View and from..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Monument Ave.

"...wolfpack films, from De Niro's A Bronx Tale to everything Scorsese ever did, but it at least feels wildly..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Senseless

"...mess, chiefly made up of stale gags that went bad sometime during the Kennedy administration and a stunningly unengaging..."

Feb. 20, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Camp Nowhere

"...seen a million times in reruns of Meatballs or bad teen movies like Poison Ivy. Camp Nowhere tries really..."

Sept. 2, 1994 Movie Review by Brian Baker

Demolition Man

Stallone and Snipes blow things up real good.

"...criminal and Stallone as the police and they blow everything up. What a great film idea.” When psycho criminal..."

Oct. 15, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

Apollo 11

Astounding documentary takes us back to the first crewed mission to the moon

"...Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins. NASA cinematographers filmed everything, not only the Mission Control scientists (all men, most..."

March 15, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Unbridled

Religion and horses are insufficient therapy for this abuse drama

"...stepfather comes looking to reclaim the life he lost, everything Sarah worked to accomplish comes crashing down around her...."

Feb. 1, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Destroyer

Nicole Kidman's grimy noir mistakes grit for intrigue

"...fails to illuminate the character’s capability to make a bad decision that will haunt her for the rest of..."

Jan. 11, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

A Million Ways to Die in the West

Seth MacFarlane furthers his Hollywood onslaught with this Western spoof in which he's no longer strictly a voice talent but is now playing the onscreen lead.

"...MacFarlane’s comedic approach has always been that of throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. It’s no..."

May 30, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Muppets Most Wanted

This re-energized franchise has found its second wind: The Muppets' eighth movie proves that eight is not enough.

"...with a creative vitality and boisterous humor that makes everything seem new again. Sure, the schtick hasn’t changed –..."

March 21, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

47 Ronin

Keanu Reeves is a samurai warrior fighting supernatural forces in this twist on the ancient Japanese tale.

"...that they must delay such plans anyway. It is bad enough that they have been lowered to ronin status,..."

Dec. 27, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas

The auteur from Atlanta dons his Madea drag once more to spread holiday cheer.

"...nature, she is as out of control as a bad storm. Yet, she seems somehow ill-conceived. Sometimes she is..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Arbitrage

Richard Gere stars in this thriller as a duplicitous hedge-fund manager who, nevertheless, has all the right moves.

"...the detectives, who, in their zeal to capture the bad guys, are shown making their own compromises with morality,..."

Sept. 14, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kick-Ass

Everyone's a superhero these days, and this film based on Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s comic book series takes that concept to the Nth degree.

"...own background all that deeply and instead settles for everything the title promises and less. Johnson plays everyfan Dave..."

April 16, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Edward and Bella are back for more thwarted young vampiric love.

"...or sexual energy to the piece. It’s as if everything’s been buffed to achieve maximum banality. New Moon opens..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Watchmen

Although this hotly anticipated film has ideas galore, it remains bizarrely cold and uninvolving.

"...crater, the intentional fallout from one good superhero gone bad. She's right, of course. New York/Gotham/Metropolis is forever taking..."

March 6, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys

One-man moviemaking machine Tyler Perry drops his usual cross-dressing comedics for this melodrama about two family dynasties – one black, one white – rocked by scandal.

"...unfocused drama that purports to believe that family is everything, when all else fails. It’s as if director/screenwriter Perry..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Hitman

Like the video game that inspired this film, Hitman is a brain-dead pleasure bomb.

"...it's also great fun, drawing as it does on everything from James Bondian Eurotrash panache to Vin Diesel's moribund..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Weirdsville

Weirdsville accomplishes something that is rare for Canadian-made comedies: It's actually funny.

"...in that similarly offbeat comedy about a couple of bad musicians who, by accident, become even worse safecrackers. Bentley..."

Oct. 5, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Right at Your Door

Harrowing doesn't even begin to describe this low-budget exercise in siege paranoia, which builds on our current terrorist-related night sweats.

"...low-budget exercise in siege paranoia, which cunningly riffs on everything from George Romero's Night of the Living Dead and..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Seraphim Falls

A morality play without the morality, Seraphim Falls demands its protagonists (Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Anjelica Huston) resign themselves to their loneliness and brutality.

"...person. Now, on paper this might not sound so bad (surely there are worse things in this world than..."

Jan. 26, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Volver

No working male director loves the community of women more than Almodóvar, and Volver is his ode of love to women’s congress and fortitude.

"...iconic female representations seen in Almodóvar’s last few films: Bad Education (transvestite), Talk to Her (comatose), All About My..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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