Reviews

Those complications do offer the film a modicum of personality as its core dilemma - the young son of a rich family disobeying his parents by letting a homeless stranger into their high-security home, thus drawing the attention of a gang of rich killers looking to murder the poor - prompts some degr... ...

Though the concept of a psychological contagion prompting acts of extreme violence against not just one another but also one's self is a potent source of horror, Suicide Club mainly forgoes such an approach in order to play the subject for as much black comedy as possible, whether it's through some ... ...

Scenes of garbled Elizabethan wordplay are occasionally interrupted by some especially bland and poorly-crafted action scenes; action scenes always tend to feel a little redundant even in the best Shakespeare films, but this film seems virtually dependent on them to an especially pronounced fault. ...

As a result, Garage Days manages to avoid being anywhere near as fun as it may seem on the outside, playing into a lot of the worst aspects of a) movies about rock music, b) movies about youth sub-cultures and c) Australian comedies. ...

While most of Zack Snyder's films have been based on other people's stories, Sucker Punch marks the first instance of him directing a film based on a story he himself created. ...

The most obvious culprit at work seems to be none other than Adam Sandler, whose appearance as the film's nominal hero is far and away the biggest red flag that this film could possibly raise. ...

It's clear from the opening credits - which don't involve scenes of space accompanied by John Williams' triumphant theme music, but instead use scenes of deathly-unfunny slapstick - that Superman III will not come close to matching the standards set by the first two films to star Christopher Reeve a... ...

The attempts to incorporate blackly comic sensibilities into the proceedings don't exactly work (especially in a montage where Deadpool violently goes after lead after lead in search of Ajax), but the film suffers even more when it tries to get serious; as a result, scenes such as Deadpool's various... ...

The film does have a unique visual style thanks to the constant use of Dutch angles and curtain-like scene transitions, but that's easily undone by the decidedly horrible effects work on display throughout the film (most prominently in one scene where Travolta drops a dissenting human off a cliff, w... ...

Its oh-so-clever attempt at deconstructing superhero comics is only one of many reasons why it's so difficult to feel invested in the proceedings; even when considering Vaughn's tendency towards sharp dialogue and memorable action set-pieces soundtracked with non-original songs, this film comes up f... ...