Max Payne
Film version of the popular video game stars Mark Wahlberg … unfortunately.
"...characterization that he ends up trapping inside whatever emotional punch the original dialogue may have carried. But maybe that's..."
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Oct. 24, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
My AFF Friday
From a sunny barbecue to a film about the shrouded mysteries of Sonny Liston's boxing career in Phantom Punch to the comedy Shallow Grave that's just about as dark as they come
"...Fortunately, Robert Townsend’s Phantom Punch was a great distraction. The film is a biographical..."
Oct. 19, 2008 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Happening
In M. Night Shyamalan's mystery spooker, logic-defying episodes of death and destruction suddenly erupt across America.
"...ever more wiggy attempts to recapture the box-office sucker punch of The Sixth Sense, every Shyamalan film since 2000's..."
June 20, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Never Back Down
Never Back Down is like The Karate Kid meets Fight Club by way of Abercrombie & Fitch.
"...words who teaches his new student that throwing a punch is as much a mental act as it is..."
March 21, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Randy and the Mob
This Southern-fried comedy, directed by and starring Ray McKinnon, is a flat-footed take on the suburban Southern gentleman in disrepair.
"...anywhere. The phrase "Southern comedy" need not be a punch line in and of itself, but you'd hardly glean..."
Oct. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Evan Almighty
Steve Carell's new film is a mild laffer instead of a divine comedy.
"...and scatter droppings as though they were bona fide punch lines. Shadyac, who also directed Bruce Almighty with Jim..."
June 22, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Epic Movie
The filmmakers are completely tone-deaf when it comes to the art of film parody, and their special form of sadism-as-punch-line leaves the audience in a perpetual cringe.
"...Not Another Teen Movie, and their special form of sadism-as-punch-line leaves their audience in a perpetual cringe, waiting for..."
Feb. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Broken Bridges
At first glance, Toby Keith drama Broken Bridges is about reconciliations; really, though, the movie is about the cross-marketing potential of contemporary country music full of cliché and contrived music performances.
"...Twain and Faith Hill, never misses a chance to punch-up an emotional scene with a contrived, heart-melting music performance..."
Sept. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Trust the Man
With distinct echoes of Woody Allen, Trust the Man follows fashionably neurotic New Yorkers in oversized apartments as they search for happiness, love, and sex.
"...a relationship dramedy wields little power without an emotional punch. And when the theatrical (literally) climax attempts bold emotionality,..."
Sept. 1, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton
Silent Hill
Eerie but ultimately unengaging film adaptation of Konami's smash series of video games has a pitch-perfect score and unnervingly nightmarish imagery.
"...Fulci. Then wrap your fist in barbed wire and punch the wall a few times, while reeling in a..."
April 28, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Sin City
This ultra-noir adaptation of Frank Miller’s black-and-white cult comic series is a visual feast ripped straight from the original medium’s blood-soaked pages.
"...testosterone straight up, no chaser, it’s a 120-proof sucker punch to the cinematic solar plexus...."
April 1, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Alamo
In this round of historical revisionism there's not much to remember except, maybe, Davy Crockett becoming a fiddler on the roof.
"...Anna’s (Echevarría) army, the film lacks the emotional, doomed punch for which it’s so clearly striving. Much of this..."
April 9, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
50 First Dates
Drew and the Sandman team up once more to make Valentine's weekend box-office dollars.
"...him as a romantic leading man in P.T. Anderson’s Punch-Drunk Love, when he was beating up a public restroom..."
Feb. 13, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
The Hulk
"...epic in scope and theme and flat-out, knockdown visual punch, a comic-book movie for adults, that, while it finally..."
June 20, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
Colombani's debut features a finely nuanced and altogether striking performance by Tautou, whose wide eyes adroitly reflect an inner world that ricochets from hopelessly in love to simply hopeless.
"...it borders on Vertigo in terms of sheerly sexy punch. Colombani’s film has far less of Hitchcock’s chilly blond..."
March 7, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Art of Dying
"...a total wash, it's still lacking the visceral, self-mocking punch of the Scream series and the relentless drive of..."
May 24, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Jeepers Creepers
"...up for with unrelenting imagination and a creepily visceral punch that's hard to shake even after you exit the..."
Aug. 31, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Left Luggage
"...as a whole (at least until the one-two sucker punch of an ending). Not for everyone's taste, I'd think,..."
April 6, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Butterfly
Nicely performed and beautifully shot, this story of a young boy's political awakening flutters lightly across the screen.
"...which is why the disturbing ending packs such a punch...."
Nov. 18, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Dancer in the Dark
Björk goes goes to the death chamber in musical interludes.
"...powerful stuff, despite its antagonism. The film's unabashed sucker punch of an ending knocks the wind out of you..."
Oct. 6, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Human Resources
"...Renault plant outside of Paris, grinds along like the punch presses that clatter in the background. What Human Resources..."
Oct. 6, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Girlfight
"...indie success story whose dynamic rhythms deliver a connecting punch. The movie has an integrity of feeling and spirit..."
Sept. 29, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
"...forges a film so over-the-top it's closer to pop-cult punch of the The Fifth Element than any telling of..."
Nov. 12, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
SLC Punk!
"...(albeit mildly defective) human, and making the one-two sucker punch at the film's end that much more powerful. Merendino's..."
April 30, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Permanent Midnight
Jerry Stahl's junkie confession is the author's fictionalized account of how to maintain a successful Hollywood career as well as a $6,000-a-week heroin habit.
"...humorous moments, the film lacks any real verve and punch, and brings little new to the table in the..."
Sept. 25, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Your Friends & Neighbors
"...predictable and mannered. LaBute's subject matter still finds its punch from the banal cruelty of which human relationships are..."
Aug. 21, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Nightwatch
"...on horror film clichés leaves it lacking the Seven-ish punch it's obviously aiming for. Co-scripted by Steven “Master of..."
June 19, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
I Love You, I Love You Not
"...first encounter with anti-Semitism -- packs an inherent emotional punch. Unfortunately, screenwriter Wendy Kesselman, on whose Ford Foundation-commissioned play..."
April 3, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith
Bent
"...just have easily been excised; the film is a punch in the gut and a kiss on the lips,..."
Feb. 20, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Jackie Brown
Based on Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch, this is a fairly straight-ahead, Seventies-styled caper film.
"...can get it. Based on Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch, this is a far cry from the auteur's two..."
