For a while, the first live-action Pokemon movie’s achievements are enough: first and foremost among them, Ryme City, a vibrant urban world in which Pokemon and people live cheek-by-jowl and it doesn’t seem unbearably weird or impossible. (Nor does it seem morally complicated, since the city’s residents have gotten past …
For a while, the first live-action Pokemon movie’s achievements are enough: first and foremost among them, Ryme City, a vibrant urban world in which Pokemon and people live cheek-by-jowl and it doesn’t seem unbearably weird or impossible. (Nor does it seem morally complicated, since the city’s residents have gotten past …
Anne Fletcher’s contemporary romantic comedy has a premise no more ridiculous than something that might once have featured Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray. The editor-in-chief at Ruick & Hunt Publishers, a transplanted Canadian ice queen slash wicked witch of the north, now threatened with deportation for an expired visa, commands …
Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds star in what appears to be a Frankenstein creation composed of bits and pieces of every action film produced over the last twenty years. The trailer is pitched strictly to die-hard fans of The Rock, and by that, we mean members of his …
Denzel Washington rules again, his charisma little aged, but what’s the point of suavely dominating another spew of violent killings and barely credible suspense? Ryan Reynolds is a CIA agent whose boring life in South Africa is supercharged by the arrival of rogue super-agent Denzel. Also caught in the suction …
Ben Kingsley's obtrusive accent at the opening may signal that Self/Less is a B movie, but B movies have their very real virtues. Despite its sort of sci-fi premise — what if you could shed your worn-out body and transfer yourself into a newer, healthier model? — the film is …
Callous and smarty-pants action thriller in the Tarantino mode, or better, Tarantinissimo, revolving around a horde of free-lance bounty hunters and hit persons (a lavishly pierced and tattooed heavy-metal trio, a couple of black lesbians, a scar-faced master of disguise in Mission: Impossible latex, among others) in competition to cut …
A miserly man who treats everyone around him with terrible selfishness finds himself on a fantastical adventure into the three phases of time: past, present, and future, in order to discover how he ended up so miserable and alone. Charles Dickens’ tale of a Scrooge visited by four ghosts on …
Harvey Weinstein continues to pan for Holocaust gold with this fact-fueled, remedially-chronicled — vibrant colors = present day/achromatic tones = flashback — extermination of an otherwise fascinating historical footnote. With Streisand and Rogen unavailable, Helen Mirren assumes the role of the feisty octogenarian who, along with her young lawyer (mayo-man …
The prequel seeks to answer all your questions, assuming you had any, as regards where and when and why the titular superhero got his switchblade knuckles, his leather bolero jacket, his pent-up rage, his blank memory, among other esoterica. Starting back in 1854 (heavy sigh), two mutant brothers, aging up …