Slow-starting, long-lasting, highly diffuse sequel, what with a shape-shifting sandman (the true murderer of the superhero's uncle), parasitic licorice vines from outer space, an amnesiac avenger, an unprincipled newspaper photographer, and of course more rocky romance, dipping low while Spidey explores his Dark Side. All in all, a sharp comedown …
Slow-starting, long-lasting, highly diffuse sequel, what with a shape-shifting sandman (the true murderer of the superhero's uncle), parasitic licorice vines from outer space, an amnesiac avenger, an unprincipled newspaper photographer, and of course more rocky romance, dipping low while Spidey explores his Dark Side. All in all, a sharp comedown …
Casting the great and powerful Oz (James Franco, making quick reparations for his colorless work on The Wiz prequel) as a tin-grinned hustler opposite a pair of former Disney cuties (Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez) in what amounts to a Girls Gone Wild video with a better DP, will forever …
There wasn’t enough room on the poster to add of Cinema as We Know It. After exiting a screening of Observe and Report, a fellow patron let his date and everyone within earshot know, “If Seth Rogen took a shit on screen for two hours, I’d watch it.” Here’s your …
Kevin Reynolds, the director of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Waterworld, tries to rescue the legendary lovers from the clutches of Wagner and deliver them to the shopping mall. Deliver them, more exactly, to mushy, muddled action scenes, to dull, gray, lightless photography, to moonfaced, crêpe-flat closeups, to a …
A film based on a true story about stories that aren't entirely true. Namely, the one told by disgraced journalist Mike Finkel (Jonah Hill) — fired by the New York Times after making a composite out of multiple abused Africans — and the one told by Christian Longo (James Franco) …
Christmas, the perfect time for Zoey Deutch to introduce the family to her first serious boyfriend, James Franco. The titular question goes unanswered. Sure, Franco is sweet, cute in a goofy way, and above all, painfully honest, but aside from those amorphous traits we’re never quite sure what it is …
A needless remake, though not as big a time-waster for the viewer (an hour and three-quarters) as for the writer and director, Neil LaBute, known for less generic stuff like In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors. He has weeded out some of the silliness of the …
Comical fantasy of medieval chivalry and adventure. David Gordon Green directed, with Danny McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel, Toby Jones, Justin Theroux, and Charles Dance.