Movies More Proof That the Jurassic World Franchise Desperately Needs to Be Stomped Out By Todd Jorgenson | 3 years ago The latest uninspired sequel seems to exist only to extensively rehash what’s come before and tease what’s ahead.
Movies The Once and Hopefully Never Again King Arthur By Alex Macon | 4 years ago Guy Ritchie's take on Camelot is so ridiculous it has potential to be cheesy bad fun, but is mostly just bad.
Movies The Eye-Rolling Only Living Boy in New York Needs to Hit the Books By Todd Jorgenson | 4 years ago The latest example of aristocratic New Yorkers lamenting about failed relationships doesn’t do justice to Woody Allen or Simon & Garfunkel.
Movies You Might Know a Guy Like Wilson, But You Don’t Have to Like Him By Todd Jorgenson | 4 years ago This comedy wallows in the middle-aged misanthropy of its title character, who discovers a soft side beneath his hardened shell of resentment and hostility.
Movies Grey Matter: Throwing Shade on This Tame Sequel By Todd Jorgenson | 4 years ago Functioning as a showcase for various sexual props and positions that aims below the belt, it feels like nothing more than an elaborate tease.
Movies Mourn the Waste of a Great Cast in Sappy Collateral Beauty By Todd Jorgenson | 4 years ago This contrived ensemble drama about overcoming personal obstacles wallows in sentimentality at the expense of emotional authenticity.
Movies Spy Game: Keeping Up With the Joneses Doesn’t Take Much Effort By Todd Jorgenson | 4 years ago In this uninspired suburban satire, you keep waiting for something, anything, significant to happen contrary to expectations, but it never does.
Movies Attention Innocent Moviegoers: Don’t Let Masterminds Rob You By Todd Jorgenson | 4 years ago This lackluster comedy about a true-life massive 1997 heist of more than $17 million from an armored truck is more obnoxious than endearing.
Movies Moviegoers Can Feel McConaughey’s Depression in Sea of Trees By Todd Jorgenson | 5 years ago The latest effort from director Gus Van Sant is a muddled and relentlessly downbeat examination of marriage and mortality that’s more pretentious than profound.
No Wonder: New Adventure for Alice is All Style, No Substance By Todd Jorgenson | 5 years ago The hollow new film feels like an inferior replica of its predecessor in just about every way, again emphasizing spectacle over storytelling in a way that rarely captures the spirit of the original text.
Batman v Superman Is a Super Serious, Super Dull Comic Book Movie By Alex Macon | 5 years ago The dawn of a new generation of dreadfully po-faced supehero movies.
Even By Sparks’ Sappy Standards, The Choice Is a Bad One By Todd Jorgenson | 5 years ago The same assembly-line mentality that keeps Nicholas Sparks fans coming back to the theater will probably steer others away, since this slick and calculated effort basically contains variations on the same characters and scenarios we’ve seen before.
Undermain Theatre’s The Droll Doesn’t Live Up To Its Name By Jessica Fritsche | 5 years ago If this is the last dying gasp of theater, someone needs to take it behind the shed and put it out of its misery.
For Some Reason, Nobody Shot Down This Remake of Hitman By Todd Jorgenson | 6 years ago In following its predecessor, it’s a slick high-tech thriller that essentially trades one incoherent mess of car chases, shootouts, and fight sequences for another.
Dallas Summer Musicals’ Dirty Dancing Is Not the Time of Our Lives By Jessica Fritsche | 6 years ago Between the missing chemistry and the clumsy execution, perhaps Baby should have just stayed in the corner.