‘The Dilemma’ movie review: aggravating Vince Vaughn, Kevin James comedy
Ron Howard’s The Dilemma is a rarely funny bromance, overlong and aggravating and without a dilemma
March 15, 2011
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Ron Howard’s The Dilemma is a rarely funny bromance, overlong and aggravating and without a dilemma
Season of the Witch might seem to legitimize the medieval witch hunting, or hey, take it a step further, the witch hunting in contemporary US politics
The Good Heart is about as unsubtle as (bad) silent melodrama, and within minutes it reaches an undesirable crescendo
Paranormal Activity 2 rehashes the found footage first film and expects us to eat it up just the same
The Bounty Hunter is a bizarre amalgamation of romantic comedy and buddy cop picture, synthesizing the plots of both genres as best they fit
Fish-out-of-water, opposites-attract, throw some more stale clichés in the pot and you’ve got the wretched Leap Year
The Lovely Bones is also an incredibly misguided film that feels icky and unpleasant and all sorts of wrong
And at worst, Nine is a masturbatory vanity project and an insult to Fellini
The Twilight Saga: New Moon is an unbearable slog that will appeal to fans of the series and leave all others twitching in their seats
My Life in Ruins is another parade of obnoxious stereotypes that wears out its welcome quickly
Love Happens, a well-intentioned but seriously mishandled film with precious little romance and no comedy
Gamer is a loud, incoherent, and ultimately miserable experience, but the directors are trying here
New in Town transports a Miami city girl to Minnesota, and leaves no Harve Gunderson or “don’tcha know” unturned
An unfortunate title describes its contents all-too-well in Robert B. Weide’s How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Australia falls on all counts to do justice to its titular country as it turns in an embarrassingly crude apology
Repo! The Genetic Opera is what happens when filmmakers set out to make a cult movie: too much cult, not enough movie
Star Wars: The Clone Wars does its best to alienate fans of the series by explicitly pandering to a younger audience
ABBA’s music can be plenty fun, and Mamma Mia! has fleeting, all-too-brief glimpses of that fun
Michael Patrick King’s Sex and the City turns the HBO comedy into an interminable, sometimes excruciating experience
Step Up 2 the Streets follows in the footsteps of the earlier film and other competitive street dance movies
The Eye is based on the creepy 2002 Hong Kong film by the same name, directed by the Pang brothers
Mike Newell’s Love in the Time of Cholera is a chore to sit through and an insult to most
The Seeker: The Dark is Rising is dull, plodding nonsense
The Pang Bros. first English-language film, The Messengers starts off promisingly but soon disintegrates