Radio Free Albemuth movie rating: red light
A too-literal adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s paranoid science fiction fantasy lacks the atmosphere and human feeling it demands to work on any level.
fantasy
How to Train Your Dragon 2 movie review: flying higher
An absolute delight, even better than the first film; a gorgeously animated ode to sticking to your principles in the face of ultimate adversity.
Enemy movie rating: red light
Jake Gyllenhaal meets his doppelgänger — or maybe it’s also him — and they argue over whether they are secretly fucking each other’s female property.
Oculus movie review: broken glass
The eerie atmosphere of psychological upset is intriguing and unusual, but it’s not actually all that scary.
Maleficent movie review: fatal enchantment… you know, for kids!
Please leave your desire for a well-rounded story in the lockers provided, and keep your arms and legs inside the ride while it is in motion.
Only Lovers Left Alive movie review: full-blooded
I want to crawl inside this movie and curl up in its lap and stay there forever. This movie is so languid and so uncoerced. I want to keep it a secret and let everyone know about it at the same time.
Knights of Badassdom rating: red light
Supernatural slasher haunts a live-action role-playing game. The cast is clearly having fun, but none of it rubs off on us.
The Legend of Hercules rating: red light
Kellan Lutz is the demigod’s density in Renny Harlin’s MST3K-ready retelling of the classical legend. Think Jesus with muscles, by the power of Greyskull.
Escape from Tomorrow review: Mickey Mouse horror
Whatever the technical intrigue of a film shot guerilla-style at Disney World, the would-be surreal midlife crisis that ended up onscreen doesn’t work… at all.
The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears review: the color of nasty
A teeth-grindingly, blood-boilingly infuriating cinematic trial that’s like an art school film project gone horribly awry.
