‘Blue Beetle’ movie review: bright & buzzy DC spectacle ultimately goes splat
This origin story looks and sounds great, but its listless screenplay is cobbled together from superhero cliches.
August 16, 2023
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This origin story looks and sounds great, but its listless screenplay is cobbled together from superhero cliches.
The Big Wedding casts Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Susan Sarandon, Robin Williams and other fins actors in an entirely dull affair
Can’t-miss premise, intelligent script, taut direction, outstanding cast…where did Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep go wrong?
Snitch is a gritty crime tale made with some DIY flair by director Ric ROman Waugh but saddled with an outlandish central premise
Arbitrage stars Richard Gere as hedge fund manager Robert Miller, who has built up an empire over the years
Cloud Atlas is a bold and ambitious piece of filmmaking that demands to be seen and analyzed, and reseen and reanalyzed
In Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Gordon Gekko is no longer a villain, not even an antihero, but the wise and heroic mentor
The Lovely Bones is also an incredibly misguided film that feels icky and unpleasant and all sorts of wrong
Speed Racer, an anime adaptation from the directors of The Matrix, is a dazzling, breathless, ultimately exhausting experience
In the Valley of Elah is an investigative drama that doesn’t quite reach the aspirations of its true-life story