Movie Review: ‘The Equalizer’ a Taut Vigilante Flick
Denzel Washington reverts to Man on Fire ass-kicking mode in this violent revenge film
September 25, 2014
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Denzel Washington reverts to Man on Fire ass-kicking mode in this violent revenge film
The fact that Mike Cahill’s I Origins is able to string you along as long as it does is nothing short of miraculous
Wrong Cops, wrong criminals, wrong everything in Quentin Dupieux’s latest foray into experimental WTF filmmaking, a short & senseless little Reno 911-like riff
While If I Stay is considerably less offensive than The Fault in Our Stars, this year’s other serious young adult drama, it’s also pretty much a dud
Before I Go to Sleep is a terrible movie, but it’s also a highly entertaining one: this idiotic thriller gets sillier and sillier as it goes along
The Maze Runner is a refreshingly small-scale B-movie that doesn’t bother with the more self-serious aspects of its genre cohorts
The Giver is well put together by director Philip Noyce and fully engaging, but the adaptation leaves a lot to be desired
And So It Goes gets by as far as it does due to the charisma of stars Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton, who bring a genuine humanity to their roles
A Most Wanted Man is a first-rate spy thriller from director Anton Corbijn (Control, The American) from the 2008 John le Carré novel
As Above, So Below has a great premise, an interesting supernatural concept, a cast containing professional actors, and a genuine storyline
Style so overwhelms content in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For that plot specifics are rendered meaningless
The Hundred-Foot Journey is full of enough mouth-watering scenes of food preparation to fill a minor craving
For a movie called Sex Tape, this film is shockingly tepid and tame; neither the humor nor the sex is very risqué
It’s a shocker, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2014 isn’t awful – but it’s not exactly good, either
While The Expendables 3 is a better film in most technical regards, it’s lost the goofy charm and rough edges that made the first two Expendables fun
Boyhood was filmed over the course of dozen years from 2002-2014, as director Richard Linklater filmed his principal actors through puberty
Lucy flies by in a razzling, dazzling whirlwind, barely giving you time enough to think about what you’re actually seeing
Magic in the Moonlight is a lightweight piece of Woody Allen fluff with precious little magic or moonlight.
Into the Storm is certainly goofier than any Roland Emmerich disaster movie – and that’s saying something.
Magický hlas rebelky (The Magic Voice of a Rebel) is a compelling new documentary that follows Kubišová’s humble beginnings to Prague Spring fame
Parádně pokecal (titled Totally Talking in English) is the debut feature from writer-director and FAMU graduate Tomáš Pavlíček
Guardians of the Galaxy is not just the best Marvel movie to date, but also the one of the finest science fiction films in quite some time
The Purge: Anarchy is unquestionably better than the first, and individual scenes of suspense and action work just fine in their own B-movie way
Is the Man Who is Tall Happy? French director Michel Gondry’s interviews “father of modern linguistics” Noam Chomsky to find out