The significance of this pitch-black mall-cop comedy will likely reside in how future historians view it as a silver-screen expression of today’s angry times. It is not surprising, then, that Hill has vocally noted Scorsese’sContinue reading

Although it is being marketed as coming from the director of last summer’s raucous Superbad, Adventureland is a different kind of coming-of-age story, one that has just enough oddball gags and adolescent humor to fillContinue reading

A brightly colored mash-up of pop-culture gags that speeds at you so fast and furiously that it feels like a rush even if you can’t remember much about it the next day. This sensation isContinue reading

This kid brother to The Amityville Horror also tries to stake a claim to veracity with its marketing-oriented insistence on being not just “a” true story, but “the” true story of an East Coast haunting,Continue reading

A fizzy riff on many of the same cutthroat-corporate themes explored with such gravity in Michael Clayton, Gilroy’s follow-up mixes its nuanced screwball antics and star wattage with a visual panache of split screens andContinue reading

The mainstream comedy genre has become in recent years a kind of breeding ground for male arrested development—in all its slovenly, sexist, drunken glory—with such enthusiastic gusto that it comes as a genuine surprise thatContinue reading

Of the the many ’70s and ’80s horror films that have been remade in recent years, the only one to offer a real opportunity for improvement is Wes Craven’s The Last House on the LeftContinue reading

Despite being a child of the 1970s, I never saw Disney’s Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) and thus have no point of comparison with its new “reimagining,” which comes complete with action-comedy star Dwayne JohnsonContinue reading

Any adaptation of the much-celebrated graphic novel (the only such work to appear on Time‘s list of the 100 greatest English-language novels) was bound to elicit varied and contradictory reactions, so it’s of little surpriseContinue reading

There are lots of filmmakers who make heavy-handed dramas about loss, pain, and abuse, and there are lots of filmmakers who make comedies about social rebellion, but how many filmmakers make them both at theContinue reading