Movie Review: Guardians of the Galaxy
Co-written with Margaux Poupard. Samir: Considering the crop of summer blockbusters this summer, I had little expectation that I would find GOTG so enjoyable. I’m normally such a bitter cynic….
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Movie Review: Lucy
What if you were able to use all of your brain instead of just a small fraction of it? That’s the startlingly misinformed question asked in Lucy, a part-stupid, part-insane….
Film Review: The Purge: Anarchy
Co-written with Margaux Poupard. Samir: The proverbial “they” say sequels are never better than the original. Unless it’s a Godfather movie. But when it comes to crappy movies, that rule….
Movie Review: SABOTAGE (Blu-Ray/DVD)
Schwarzenegger hasn’t quite had the success that he garnered during his on-screen time in the late ’80s and early ’90s. As of late his films have been the same sort….
Movie Review: Boyhood
Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is a film of boundless warmth, intelligence, joy, and depth. It’s also critically a work of staggering ambition and scope. We don’t watch as different actors step….
Movie Review: Life Itself
“For me the movies are like machines that generate empathy,” Roger Ebert once described the way cinema brings incredibly diverse types of people together to experience things outside of their….
Movie Review: America: Imagine the World Without Her
America: Imagine the World Without Her – A Movie Review by N. Tensen Dinesh D’Souza is a man on a mission. That mission is to save America from being completely….
Movie review: “Snowpiercer”
Snowpiercer is one of this year’s darkest, grimmest, most misanthropic films – and it’s also one of its weirdest. It’s messy and narratively imperfect, but the cast is game for….
Movie Review: The Rover
Guy Pearce has always been an actor of more presence than depth. The performances he’s given to date have tended to be mostly passable in terms of sheer technique. It’s….
Movie review: “22 Jump Street”
Phil Lord and Chris Miller are wizards, I’ve decided. These two have a knack for taking films that should absolutely suck, and turning them into gold. They did it with….
Movie review: “How to Train Your Dragon 2”
It’s very gratifying to watch trailers for cutesy bullshit like Earth to Echo and Home, then be treated to a film like How to Train Your Dragon 2, one of….
Movie review: The Fault in Our Stars
Kids or teens with cancer are quite possibly the most sympathetic group of all. That makes the young patients in The Fault in Our Stars a no-brainer to root for…..