Under the command of director Chris Weitz, this Twilight of the Adolf Eichmann saga begins with Oscar Isaac overseeing a team of secret agents assigned the task of tracking down the architect of the Holocaust. “Weitz power!” “I like Eich!” The mob of mock alt-right poster-blurbs that waltzed through my …
This year's live-action slate is reviewed here.
On a bullfighting breeding farm in the backwoods of Mexico, the sons of rancheros tire of antagonizing one another and decide it would be more fun to pick on the girls. Meanwhile, on another part of the farm, the chronological age of the participants might increase the closer one gets …
I’m all for improving a bad movie, but why remake matters worse? A bloody stool joke gets things rolling. The mechanical whir of the elongating power recliner promised somatic comfort, while my dampened spirits prepared to be bored over again. Director Rob Greenberg’s first big-screen undertaking is being marketed as …
Guillermo Del Toro’s 2013 original (well, first, anyway) Pacific Rim was a genre love letter. The sequel is an exemplar, a big-budget actioner that goes about its bang-up business with skill and speed. (The only thing more breakneck than the pacing is director and co-writer Steven S. DeKnight’s frequency of …
Guillermo Del Toro’s 2013 original (well, first, anyway) Pacific Rim was a genre love letter. The sequel is an exemplar, a big-budget actioner that goes about its bang-up business with skill and speed. (The only thing more breakneck than the pacing is director and co-writer Steven S. DeKnight’s frequency of …
Guillermo Del Toro’s 2013 original (well, first, anyway) Pacific Rim was a genre love letter. The sequel is an exemplar, a big-budget actioner that goes about its bang-up business with skill and speed. (The only thing more breakneck than the pacing is director and co-writer Steven S. DeKnight’s frequency of …
Guillermo Del Toro’s 2013 original (well, first, anyway) Pacific Rim was a genre love letter. The sequel is an exemplar, a big-budget actioner that goes about its bang-up business with skill and speed. (The only thing more breakneck than the pacing is director and co-writer Steven S. DeKnight’s frequency of …
It may be difficult to find a review of director and co-writer Paul King’s followup to his first take on Michael Bond’s émigré bear from darkest Peru that does not employ some form of the word “charming.” This is right and just, and the achievement is surely harder than the …
Set in medieval Rajasthan, Queen Padmavati is married to a noble king and they live in a prosperous fortress with their subjects until an ambitious Sultan hears of Padmavati's beauty and forms an obsessive love for the Queen of Mewar.