An attempt to do for the mutant insect genre what “Scream” did for Slasher movies fails to rise above its iffy source material. Even the giant spiders don’t look very into it.
Director Ron Howard adapts the classic Dr. Seuss tale into a wildly uneven mess that even a near-brilliant performance by Jim Carrey can’t save.
Action has-beens Sylvester Stallone and Renny Harlin seem to think they can make the fiery and frequent car crashes of auto racing more exciting by making them less frequent and more computer-generated. Along the way, Stallone mumbles his lines into incomprehension and Harlin tarts up the screen with so many jump cuts that you’ll long for ESPN’s single-camera coverage.
It’s about time that a Hollywood actioner was based on a premise that is simply incorrect.
Writer-Director Kevin Smith keeps getting better.
The jokes fly as wildly as the titular sports gear, landing solidly more often than you’d expect thanks to a fast-paced script and a cast of good-natured misfits led by Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller.
The story of illegal immigrants in London and the lengths they will go to for citizenship is told with an understated skill by director Stephen Frears.
Pierce Brosnan humanizes the role of James Bond in this 20th installment of the series, until it degenerates into a CGI-laced explosion-fest.
Guillermo del Toro’s story of a benevolent spirit and some not-so-benevolent humans roaming the halls of an orphanage during the Spanish Civil War is beautifully filmed, written and acted.
With a wealth of material to pull from, director Irwin Winkler’s elegant, meandering biopic of Cole Porter gets off to a running start but never soars. Kevin Kline nearly makes it all worth it as Cole.
