THE HANGOVER PART II ** Over the course of the countless years that I’ve served as a film critic, never I have received such an outpouring of venomous reader feedback […]

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES ** If the first two sequels to 2003’s highly entertaining Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl were fairly agreeable […]

BRIDESMAIDS *** The most perfectly realized scene in Bridesmaids is an early one. Annie (Kristen Wiig) and Lillian (Maya Rudolph) have been best friends since early childhood, so when Lillian […]

THOR **1/2 Kenneth Branagh, whose devotion to the works of William Shakespeare resulted in his designation as the modern-day heir to Laurence Olivier, might have seemed an unlikely choice to […]

FAST FIVE **1/2 Stating that Fast Five is the best of the Fast and the Furious series is perhaps like claiming that the Big Mac is the best hamburger served […]

WATER FOR ELEPHANTS **1/2 It’s tempting to refer to Richard LaGravenese as the Doctor Dolittle of screenwriters, as the man who successfully brought Nick Evans’ novel The Horse Whisperer to […]

RIO **1/2 The color-drenched animated yarn Rio, which bursts onto the screen scene like a Starburst commercial writ large, contains an early sequence in which the film’s caged animal protagonist […]

ARTHUR **1/2 Here’s the dirty secret about 1981’s Arthur: It’s no classic. While a gargantuan box office hit and a double Oscar winner, it hasn’t exactly entered the annals as […]

SOURCE CODE **1/2 Has Duncan Jones already sold out? It’s hard to say, but Source Code, his sophomore effort as director, can only be considered a disappointment given his knock-it-out-of-the-park […]