Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God documentary review
“Angry” doesn’t even begin to cover how this film makes me feel. It probably won’t cover you, either.
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Bullet to the Head (review)
Damn near unwatchable. It’s barely even a movie — it’s more like a meatbrawl…
The Last Stand (review)
This Governor Schwarzenegger guy shoulda stuck his day job…
Everyday (review)
A remarkable and unlikely sort of love story, and another triumph from Michael Winterbottom…
The Sweeney (review)
This British attempt to ape Hollywood action movies only looks absurd, even if it does accidentally also hold up most Hollywood action movies as absurd, too…
Broken City (review)
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that this script had been sitting around, unproduced, for 20 years, it’s that musty…
The Wee Man (review)
An ugly portrait of notorious Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris that paints him as nearly noble…
Zero Dark Thirty movie review
If only this were a wholly fictional story, I could get behind it 100 percent, instead of the 95 percent I can give.
Gangster Squad (review)
Gangster Squad! In color! This is blustery postwar mythologizing about the violent birth of the modern metropolis, all pulpy-bright even when it’s night…
Jack Reacher (review)
Like a midseason episode of a basic-cable detective show you’ve never heard of.
