‘Warcraft’ movie review: epic video game adaptation a misfire
This lumbering would-be epic based on the popular video game franchise is the biggest, baddest blockbuster of 2016
June 8, 2016
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This lumbering would-be epic based on the popular video game franchise is the biggest, baddest blockbuster of 2016
Swashbuckling Alice must save The Mad Hatter from depression – by travelling through time – in this not-so-wonderful sequel
Dakota Johnson tests the waters of single life in this half-engaging comedy from Liz Tucillo’s bestselling book
Just what you’ve been waiting for: a sequel to Snow White, minus Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
His dreams come to life… but also his nightmares; this horror film offers few scares, but is worth catching for its young star
Real-world horrors serves as the backdrop to young romance in this slick but misguided production
Blue Steel is back, but this good-looking sequel can’t sustain the original’s ridiculous charm
She was the Czech version of Marlene Dietrich, but this campy Third Reich melodrama doesn’t do her justice
2015’s English-language rehash of Secret in Their Eyes fails to come anywhere close to matching the original
Miss You Already is a cancer-themed weepie from Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke so obvious that even the title seems to be a spoiler
The ’31 Frankenstein recognizes the iconic central character as a tragic figure, and ultimately sympathizes with him. In Victor Frankenstein, he’s just a monster.
American Ultra has some inventive ideas – not in plotting, where the twists and turns are pretty predictable, but in the execution of its individual action scenes
The scariest moment in Sinister 2 doesn’t involve the Boogeyman, but rather an abusive father
Hitman: Agent 47 follows the titular character and a female target through a number of chases and gunfights
Home Care was one of two Czech films in competition at this year’s Karlovy Vary film festival, along with the far superior The Snake Brothers
Irrational Man is the classic Strangers on a Train setup, with the twist that there’s only one stranger, and he’s motivated by vigilantism
Slow West is going for something like Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man, but it’s much too simplistic and straightforward to work on that level
These are vapid, vacuous, arrogant and selfish men, driven by the most basic desires, and Entourage is the male equivalent of Sex and the City
When you cast Samuel L. Jackson as the President of the United States, you’re promising something that Big Game completely fails to deliver.
Child 44 devotes only about a quarter of its 137-minute running time to the murder investigation it purports to depict
2015’s Poltergeist plays like a highlight reel of the 1982 original, sufficiently re-creating its scare scenes and shaving off 20 minutes in the process
The finale of Pitch Perfect 2 is similar to Rocky; only we don’t know when the punches land, or if Rocky and/or Apollo are struggling to keep up the fight
Avengers: Age of Ultron climaxes with a 30-minute sequence of our titular heroes bashing the hell out of an endless army of metalheads
Still Alice is a Disease-of-the-Week movie in which an A-list cast struggles with banal Lifetime TV material