Show Dogs

Unfunny canine buddy-cop comedy is no man's best friend.

"...it comes off as mouthy here without any similar gravitas to legitimize it...."

May 25, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

All the Money in the World

Christopher Plummer mesmerizes as the greediest man alive

"...also commands the screen with a miserly sort of gravitas that all but oozes wolfish avarice that embodied J.P...."

Dec. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Blade Runner 2049

This visually lush sequel was worth the wait.

"...on, the hulking Sapper Morton (played with grim, sorrowful gravitas by Bautista), who’s now working a farm in what..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Free Fire

A delirious shoot'em-up comedy

"...situation rather than investing it with too much QT gravitas.)..."

April 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Sense of an Ending

A man's past comes back to haunt him in the form of a letter

"...the senior set, weightless and blank next to the gravitas of Broadbent, Walter, and Charlotte Rampling (playing that first..."

March 24, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Logan

Hugh Jackman sports those famous mutton chops for the final time

"...biopic Walk the Line, he seals Logan with a gravitas kiss by way of Johnny Cash’s biblically-minded “The Man..."

March 3, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

DVDanger: The Club

Home release roundup time

"...he is exactly the actor to add a stubbly gravitas to this kind of film. It could readily have..."

May 21, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Legend

Tom Hardy pulls double duty playing both the criminal Kray twins

"...packs a punch, but it lends the film more gravitas then it’s probably earned...."

Nov. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Amira & Sam

Cross-cultural love between a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi girl flourishes in the Big Apple.

"...girls in hijabs lends the film a much-needed culture-clash gravitas...."

Jan. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Heaven Is for Real

Greg Kinnear plays a dad who believes his son's claim to have seen heaven.

"...film fails to distill Todd’s conflict with any dramatic gravitas. It plays too cute most of the time, unable..."

April 25, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Two More Acquisitions for SXSW Alumni

'Honeymoon' and 'Thank You a Lot' picked up

"...Matt Muir has something to give thanks for, as Gravitas acquired the rights to his feature Thank You a..."

March 28, 2014 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Film Flam

Drafthouse On the Brain and John Wayne Resurrected

"...its debut at Sundance, has been picked up by Gravitas. But why wait for its theatrical release when you..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Screens Post by Neha Aziz

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Who knew our beloved president also worked the graveyard shift? This capable rewrite of American history delivers its splatter with a straight face.

"...Benjamin Walker, as Lincoln, may not have the gangly gravitas of Raymond Massey's Abe Lincoln in Illinois – he..."

June 22, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In Time

Andrew Niccol writes and directs this science fiction thriller that stars Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried.

"...pretty young things like Justin Timberlake (fumbling badly when gravitas is required) and Amanda Seyfriend can only go so..."

Nov. 4, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Mao's Last Dancer

In this film based on a true story, a Chinese ballet dancer defects to the U.S. when he falls in love with a Houston dancer while on tour.

"...a light touch and just the right amount of gravitas (given the situation). While this is hardly Breaker Morant,..."

Sept. 3, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Earth

This nature film is derived from the Planet Earth miniseries and is edited with an eye toward the kid-friendly audience.

"...to the U.S. release, with a nice mix of gravitas and playfulness (as when he plays wingman to a..."

April 24, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Valkyrie

Tom Cruise seems somewhat out of place as a German officer in this thriller about the attempt on Adolf Hitler's life in July 1944.

"...overseer Ludwig Beck, gives the accounting some seriously weighty gravitas, but as multiple clocks tick down and the tricky..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mongol

Kazakhstan's Oscar entry for Best Foreign Language Film is an epic drama about the early years of Genghis Khan.

"...name), who, as played with zesty panache and steely gravitas by Japanese actor Asano (of Takeshi "Beat" Kitano's Zatoichi),..."

June 20, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Saw IV

Jigsaw died in Saw III but here we get to witness his autopsy, stem to stern, thus giving him not only the last laugh, but Being and Nothingness, as well.

"...truth to horror, bluntly but with a depressingly accurate gravitas gleaned in part, I suspect, from, of all places,..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Prestige

Two rival magicians are locked in a lifelong quest for supremacy, which leads them down a slippery slope of hairpin twists and triple-turns in this Christopher Nolan movie.

"...is Bowie's performance (he plays Tesla with a mustachioed gravitas that borders on the surreal), you're left with Nolan's..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Click

Click is a message movie whose real message isn't "Stop and Smell the Roses, Jackass," but "How to Manipulate the Audience in 12 E-Z Steps."

"...prefab cardboard casket. (There is one momentary burst of gravitas-shattering anti-hilarity in this scene, but it barely survives the..."

June 23, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Omen

Julia Stiles is miscast, although Mia Farrow delights in this unnecessary remake of a perfectly good child-as-Antichrist movie.

"...of the Antichrist, Schreiber musters little of Peck's steely gravitas, although he acquits himself admirably in any case. Stiles,..."

June 9, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Underworld: Evolution

This tale of the ongoing hostilities between vampires and werewolves is pockmarked by the discordant likes of Puscifer and Slipknot.

"...the bad lads’ dad, Corvinus (Sir Derek Jacobi, radiating gravitas), who long ago saw the error of his loins...."

Jan. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Aeon Flux

Its heart is in the right place, but Aeon Flux's head is just a little too high to make much sense.

"...Oscar-winning actors to gnaw over pronouncements of such mock gravitas that at moments it’s all you can do not..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Derailed

The first release from the new Weinstein Co. is this thriller starring Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen that never fully engages our sympathies.

"...cast-mate Lisa Kudrow, who had her own moment of gravitas in Don Roos’ The Opposite of Sex), as the..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

An Unfinished Life

An Unfinished Life never transcends its simple storyline to charter original ground, but it’s the kind of movie you can’t fault too terribly much, primarily because its heart seems to be in the right place.

"...that serves it well. Age has given Redford the gravitas he’s always lacked as an actor, and while the..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Movie Review by Steve Davis

A Sound of Thunder

Abandoning any pretense of respect for the Ray Bradbury source material, this film manhandles the author’s delicacies into a lumbering and bewildered mess of grade-Z sci-fi clichés.

"...seen while keeping a (reasonably) stoic air of doomed gravitas about him, A Sound of Thunder becomes much more..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kingdom of Heaven

Ridley Scott's Crusades epic is a historical spectacle on the order of Gladiator and a dissection of war, as gritty and illuminating as Black Hawk Down, that takes flight when it becomes a canvas for ideas and ideologies in action.

"...Balian often exudes a more matinee-idol polish than true gravitas. Nevertheless, the top-lined Bloom may add to the box-office..."

May 6, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Testosterone

Part colorful noir, part scatterbrained comedy, Testosterone envisions the severed tether of a presumably functional relationship.

"...least the notion that something with a tad more gravitas is occurring, but like its genially annoying protagonist, Moreton’s..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Will Ferrell's Anchorman needs more work behind the scenes.

"...pseudo documentary-style with an unseen narrator introducing with E!-like gravitas beloved San Diego anchorman Ron Burgundy (Ferrell) and his..."

July 9, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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