An atmospheric failure, the criminal lovers saga Ain’t Them Bodies Saints is a dramatically inert picture, and while director David Lowery works his camera overtime, the characters and story largely fail to engage, stilted under the weight of a solemn tone and overly mannered…
Read MoreSci-fi thriller Elysium thinks it’s a piquant social allegory about the undocumented population and fight for universal healthcare. But Neil Blomkamp’s sophomore outing (after 2009’s surprise critical hit District 9) is really just an empty B-movie actioner that has more in common with clunky,…
Read MoreThe Spectacular Now is a remarkably sensitive teen movie, not exactly an oxymoron in American film but rare enough to take notice. Like last year’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower, here is a movie about teenagers that honestly acknowledges and deals with the…
Read MoreAs bad taste family road movies go, you could probably do worse (and certainly better) than We’re the Millers, a crude gag machine about a thirty-something Denver drug dealer who appropriates a fake cover family to cross the Mexican border and transport a payload…
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