
‘Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance’ movie review: Nic Cage rises from the ashes
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance doesn’t have much to live up to but even by those standards, this one comes up short.
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance doesn’t have much to live up to but even by those standards, this one comes up short.
The Help, based on the popular novel by Kathryn Stockett, is a “nice”, entertaining, enjoyable film with one major storytelling concern
Underworld: Awakening returns the series to its roots, with Kate Beckinsale in the lead and an elevated level of tedium
The Darkest Hour has two things going for it: shots of a completely deserted Moscow and an unusual alien menace
The Inbetweeners Movie is missing just about all the qualities that made the TV series fun
One Day is turgid, dull, dreary, and surprisingly unlikable, especially disappointing coming off the director’s previous film
Cowboys & Aliens does, indeed, feature both cowboys and aliens, but it doesn’t seem to know what to do with either of them
Conan the Barbarian is far from a good film, but it delivers enough B-movie cheap thrills to skate by for its intended audience
The Resident is an urban psychological thriller with some light horror overtones and a vaguely familiar air
Your Highness is a medieval fantasy-comedy with a $50 million budget and overdose of infantile humor
Something Borrowed borrows more than something from the average cut-rate romantic comedy, delivered weekly these days in familiar portions
At a scant 80 minutes minus credits, the best thing that can be said about Scott Stewart’s Priest is that it’s not quite long enough to offend
Scream 4 is more of the same, and equals or betters the last two installments; fans should dig it
No Strings Attached is all about the casual sex, friends with benefits relationship and what happens when one of the parties falls for the other
Sanctum looks great in crisp, clean James Cameron-approved 3D, but that’s about the best that can be said for it
The Green Hornet is a heaping mess of a film that just about sinks to the level of A-Team or Transformers 2 incoherence
The Kids Are All Right is light sitcom-level entertainment, tame and dull and even, perhaps, unwittingly offensive in design
Petr Jákl’s high-profile Kajínek profiles the man called the “most famous prisoner in the Czech Republic”
Saw 3D, or Saw: The Final Chapter, is easily the most violent entry in the series (yet) though the 3D is a non-event
Shrek Forever After is being touted as the final installment in the Shrek franchise, which feels about right
Killers stars Ashton Kutcher as a super-spy and Katharine Heigl as a frumpy computer technician
Steve Pink’s Hot Tub Time Machine has a title and some goofy charm, and little else
Babylon A.D. has the germ of some potentially fascinating material, but it’s all thrown into a blender and the resulting film completely lacks cohesion
Legion takes the old Night of the Living Dead/Assault on Precinct 13 formula and adds a biblical twist.