Category: Monday Morning Movie Reviewer

The biggest problem I have with Source Code isn’t even in the movie. It’s in the other movie reviews I read for it that use this movie to launch an attack on Inception, saying both movies are convoluted and make no sense when you really think about them. As a tired defender of Inception, this…

Does anyone care about this movie anymore? I watched this thing…I guess it was almost a month ago, and at this point I’ve almost completely forgotten it. That’s too bad because I was going to give Paul a pretty good review, but now realize maybe it deserves less than that. What Works: Seth Rogen as…

Today on the site I bring you no less than 5 new movie reviews—and the only reason it’s not seven is I didn’t have enough time to write a review for Paul and Source Code—so I’m pretty sure that if you’re not interested in this movie review there’s something down below it you might like….

If there is a place in flop hell for ambitious failures then unfortunately there is also a place in box office heaven for unambitious success. Battle L.A., a reasonable hit, is proof positive of that even though there isn’t a thing new to this you haven’t seen a hundred times before. Haunted Military Hero Who…

From the opening credits with a smooth Motown song playing as a Lincoln glides around the streets of LA, you can tell The Lincoln Lawyer isn’t going to reach for success, strive for ambition, unsettle you in any way, or really challenge your thinking on anything. However, it is also a pretty good movie. It’s…

Just like The Lincoln Lawyer mainly wants to show you a good time over exploring the moral dilemma at its surface, so too Limitless is consumed with slickness over substance. The plot—a man takes a pill to make himself smarter—is the type of high concept quasi-thriller Hollywood loves to make because it’s easy to sell…

Which now brings us full circle back to another ambitious failure, that might not really be that ambitious. Red Riding Hood tries to take a fairy tale for children and give it a suspenseful, moody atmosphere fit for adults. It doesn’t work and that’s mostly because the movie seems more content to rip off Twilight…

Nostalgia. One word that could describe half the movies we see in theaters. Whether it’s obvious nostalgia like a period piece set in a time we might barely remember or a film set currently that tries to make us remember when we were younger (anything from Toy Story 3 to Superbad would qualify). But is…

Do I know that I Am Number Four has been out for a month? Yes. Do I know that nobody really cared much about it five minutes after they saw it—if they ever did—and that if there was ever a time to review it, the first weekend would have been the time? Yes. However, I…

Unknown is another review I just want to dump somewhere mostly because it’s even worse than I Am Number Four in the unoriginal department and the film largely evaporated before my eyes as I was watching it. There is one decent twist towards the end that is pretty interesting…but then the movie promptly goes back…

So there I was ready to slam this movie. I already had the headline (Adjustment Bureau…adjust your expectations), but then it surprised me by being good almost from the first five minutes. Then it surprised me by being really good. Now saying this movie is the best I’ve seen this year is a bit of…

I don’t know what’s in the water this week but just like I enjoyed The Adjustment Bureau I also found Rango to be better than almost any film I had seen this year. This strange, beautiful film showed me something I didn’t even know was allowed in kid’s films anymore: ugliness. Not bad ugliness, but…

[It might be in its 3rd week of release, but since this sucker just topped the box office, it’s gained a new relevance] If Sanctum is about survival under almost impossible odds then surely Gnomeo and Juliet is for myself. I survived one of the most bizarre children’s films in history while in a theater…