Raimi’s return to his roots in prankish horror is ample evidence that the Evil Dead auteur hasn’t lost his knack for giddy-good scares or his adolescent love of all things slimy and gross. For allContinue reading

Yawn—yet another masterpiece from the wizards at Pixar who somehow manage again and again to turn visually stunning children’s entertainment into meaningful and poignant statements about the human condition. Not a wrong step anywhere, andContinue reading

It is more or less exactly what you would expect from a sequel to the surprise hit three years ago that found Ben Stiller’s nebbish night-watchman trapped in a museum in which all the exhibitsContinue reading

While all three previous films in this time-traveling sci-fi franchise gave us glimpses into the devastated futureworld run by the self-aware computer Skynet, Salvation is the first entry to be set entirely in that future,Continue reading

Much to the disappointment of those who trade in controversy (I’m looking at you William Donohue and you movie producers), there has been no real uproar about this Da Vinci Code sequel set in VaticanContinue reading

Abrams’s ambitious reinvention of the more than 40-year-old sci-fi flagship works in just about every way you could hope. Against the odds, Abrams and company have successfully crafted a new beginning that both honors theContinue reading

Origin stories usually turn out to be a disappointment since they either tell us what we already know or what we don’t want to know. This first entry in a proposed series that explores theContinue reading

This stylishly empty stab at the sub-Fatal Attraction genre makes no bones about its obviousness even as it introduces a deliberately racialized twist that is as downplayed as it was highlighted in screenwriter David Loughery’sContinue reading

Pretty much everything you need to know about this by-the-numbers clunker is summarized in the one-word title. Yes, there is plenty of fighting of the underground, bare-knuckle-brawl variety, but the film also has awkward metaphoricalContinue reading

Based on the 2003 BBC miniseries, this thriller about conspiracy, murder, and politics also considers the current state of journalism, in which dogged, time-consuming work is being pushed aside in a world of 24-hour cableContinue reading