 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
2.5/5 |
|
(2009) |
|
"It's not a great film, or even a particularly good one, but every so often you catch glimpses of a better movie behind the simplistic structure and formulaic plot."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
4/5 |
|
(2009) |
|
"Not Trek? The movie has gaping plotholes, a skirt-chasing Kirk, time travel, and a BS pseudo-scientific resolution to a life-threatening situation...it's totally Trek!"
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
2/5 |
|
(2009) |
|
"X-Men Origins: Wolverine has some serious problems. The biggest is that, aside from the dark and mysterious past, the character of Wolverine isn't all that interesting"
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
1.5/5 |
|
(2009) |
|
"Mt. Rushmore sports a more animated ensemble cast than on display here, each of who seems content to try and outglare the other."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
1.5/5 |
|
(2009) |
|
"There’s little to set this latest Last House apart from other revenge-themed horror flicks of the past 30 years."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
2.5/5 |
|
(2009) |
|
"[Snyder] ironically embodies the very overindulgence that Rorschach repeatedly points out will be the death of our society."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
2.5/5 |
|
(2009) |
|
"The "star-studded" cast seems to have been selected according to their Premiere power ranking and/or desperation for exposure."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
3/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"The script has an easygoing, improvised feel to it, and hits the mark more often than not, and the cast is perfectly believable."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
1.5/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
" ... [W]hen an animal is endangering your family, inadvertently or not, you either turn the dog into an outdoor pet or you "take a walk" with him and your 20-gauge."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
2.5/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"Don't believe the pre-release hype, this one's only for those of you who simply have to sit through all the Best Picture nominees."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
1.5/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"It would appear that in addition to robbing his brood of their need for blood, Carlisle also removed their balls."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
3/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"In Alex the Lion and Marty the Zebra, we finally have the first unabashedly gay characters in a major Hollywood animated feature."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
2/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"The Secret Life of Bees should have billed itself as a fairy tale, as that's the only possible way to swallow what Prince-Bythewood and Kidd are feeding us."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
4/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"Whatever you think of her public image or some of her past roles, [Jolie} has really come into her own."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
2.5/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"[A] moviegoing public that made "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" #1 at the box office two weeks in a row demands more, dammit."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
3/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"Miri isn't as bad as Alyssa the Light Switch Lesbian from "Chasing Amy," but the premise [...] is almost as insultingly unrealistic."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
3/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"There are plenty of cringeworthy moments toward the end, but Rogen, Banks, Mewes, and Anderson are funny enough without straying too far into Nerdlandia that it’s nearly enough to make you ignore Smith’s utter density regarding the fairer sex."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
3/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
" I’m looking forward to seeing what Webber comes up with next."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
2/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"Yet in spite of the movie's high-tech veneer and its top-billed stars, Body of Lies is depressingly inert."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
1.5/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"It’s an almost entirely pointless exercise."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
3.5/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"Stiller and company aren't exposing anything about the industry most of us didn't already know, he's just saying it really loudly and spraying blood everywhere while he does."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
3/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"I can't deny that its appeal will increase a hundredfold if you choose to attend in an altered state of some sort."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
4.5/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"Ledger makes the Joker his, imbuing the character with such menace and genuine insanity I finally got a sense of what talent he really had."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
4/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"[W]hile it's nice of Mignola and Del Toro to create something like this out of whole cloth it's the eye candy, not the story, that people are going to talk about."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
4.5/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"Gonzo is a painstaking account of a man who was more and, ultimately, less than the infamous Raoul Duke."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
2.5/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"[...]it's always nice to see someone revisit Christopher Reeves' drunken Man of Steel act from Superman III."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
4/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"Wanted's greatest asset is director Timur Bekmambetov's (in his English-language directorial debut) willingness to acknowledge the film's utter goofiness."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
3/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"One assumes writer John Bell isn’t plagued with a family full of neurotics like, say, Noah Baumbach, so while his movie manages to rise above cliche, it doesn’t have very far to go beyond that."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
4/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"A strangely enjoyable flick."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
4.5/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"Visually dazzling and possessing wit and emotion 99 percent of movies with real-life actors can’t hope to achieve."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
5/5 |
|
(2007) |
|
"The resulting documentary is truly remarkable. It’s a thoroughly unvarnished account of a soldier’s life in Iraq, from the excruciating boredom of day-to-day military existence to the tense aftermath of dozens of mortar and rocket attacks."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
2.5/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"[...]it's mercifully free of the kind of ephemeral pop culture-dependent humor that's plagued every previous DreamWorks cartoon."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
1.5/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"Were there laughs to be had? Sure, but even a "Dorf on Golf" videotape has its moments."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
2/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"You wouldn't spend valuable real-life time hanging out with self-absorbed idiots like this, so why on Earth would you watch a TV show (or a movie) about them?"
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
1/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"During the screening, I tried to come up with as many synonyms for the word "excruciating" as I could."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
3/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"As much joy as it would give me to praise Kingdom of the Crystal Skull unreservedly, there are some noticeable defects."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
2.5/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"[T]here's a not-so-subtle undercurrent of the White Man's Burden in these stories."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
4.5/5 |
|
(1989) |
|
"[T]he unintentionally hilarious moments are the real gold, such as when a pudgy teen Strompolos says, "It's not the years, honey...it's the mileage.""
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
1/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"If What Happens in Vegas serves any purpose, it’s to make me consider spending my gambling money in Reno or on a riverboat instead."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
2.5/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"[C]omplaints about Speed Racer's volume and visuals sounds like the lamentations of a bunch of grandparents pining for the days of penny candy and segregated fountains."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
3.5/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"To counter the character's relatively low Q-rating among the non-fanboy masses, Paramount has jacked up the f/x budget and made some interesting casting choices..."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
1/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"[...]as dumb a movie as you're likely to see this year, and may go down as Pacino's worst ever."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
1.5/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"Street Kings feels like Lethal Weapon mashed up with The Shield, only without the former's goofy '80s vibe or the latter's relative authenticity."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
3.5/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"The most shocking thing put forth in Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay just might be the proposition that George W. Bush is actually a pretty cool guy."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
2.5/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"Even when we learn the film's somewhat less than astounding twist about midway through, the movie's happy outcome is never really in doubt."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
1.5/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"When the bar has been set as high as it has in recent years by the likes of The Wire and the aforementioned Training Day, wasting money and studio resources on a clichéd rehash like this is puzzling, to say the least."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
2/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"There are a handful of intense sequences and a few scenes of squirm-inducing gore in The Ruins, but not much else. The film is based on Scott Smith’s excellent book, but does little to capture the novel’s sense of terror and hopelessness."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
3/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"Leatherheads is as trifling as Clooney's second movie (Good Night and Good Luck) was significant, but that's okay."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
3/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"[T]here's a serious movie struggling to emerge from behind all the chiseled features and overwrought dialogue."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
|
|
| |
1/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"I'd call it a pointless endeavor, except now we might finally be able to pinpoint the source of Wilson's recent depression."
[movie review] |
|
Film Threat |
|
|
