This is essentially Bram Stoker’s Dracula with strong lean towards period romance, and remains compulsively watchable throughout thanks to writer-director Luc Besson’s flair for the preposterous.
The 25th Bond film over the past six decades has some memorable moments but ultimately sinks under the weight of its solemnity
Like a stately period piece as directed by Michael Bay, this long-delayed historical drama is off-the-wall crazy
The King of the Jungle returns to Africa to fight slavery in this misguided mashup of Tarzan and Blood Diamond
Spectre is the classiest $300 million blockbuster you’ll ever see, and also the dullest James Bond movie ever made
In both visual and storytelling terms, Big Eyes is the most straightforward movie that Tim Burton has ever made
Horrible Bosses 2 has a number of genuine laughs and an undeniable charm that overcomes its frequent vulgarity
Django Unchained represents Tarantino Unchained: it’s the director’s longest, most indulgent, and gratuitously violent film yet
Roman Polanski’s Carnage is short, sweet, and unexpectedly funny, even if it isn’t as sharp as it ought to be
The Three Musketeers, from Resident Evil helmer Paul W.S. Anderson, is not a definitive adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas classic
Water for Elephants is a beautiful film to look at, and director Francis Lawrence and cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto know 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
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is a real pleasure to watch, an audacious and inventive amalgamation of spaghetti westerns and WWII exploitation films,