Philip K. Dick's fans have learned to brace themselves at the release of each new adaptation, always hoping for a Blade Runner but always primed for the blasphemies of a Paycheck. The read more …

Liam Neeson’s late-career transformation into a thuggish action hero came suddenly but is ever more apparently permanent. His latest, Unknown, was quite obviously manufactured in the mold of Taken, read more …

Cracks about the two-dimensionality of characters in three-dimensional films had become a standard critical crutch by at least the end of the last 3D craze, but rarely has the gulf yawned as wide as in read more …

Given that so many comedies these days are predicated on juvenile male fantasies — gorgeous, thinly-sketched girl falls for slovenly doofus — it could be considered a blow for gender equality that Elizabeth read more …

Finding regular, hard-working Americans facing harsh realities at every strata of society, The Company Men has all the makings of a valiantly cynical Bruce Springsteen tune. Writer/director John read more …

Even among the decidedly limited charms of the Hanna-Barbera canon, Yogi Bear has never really been anyone’s favorite. The character, a picnic basket-thieving bear built on an Art Carney impression, read more …

David O. Russell may not seem the most obvious choice to helm another underdog boxing story (and, in fact, wasn’t; the project has bounced around for years, landing in the laps of, among others, Martin read more …

It took one man to pen Romeo and Juliet, a timeless classic that has endured for more than 400 years. But it somehow required eight screenwriters to devise this cringeworthy update, which will read more …

The death of a child is tricky territory to negotiate onscreen. Too often, it’s a lazily manipulative shortcut to an audience’s most primal emotions; the threat of it makes for easy suspense, the depiction read more …

“What did you expect,” eccentric exorcist Father Lucas asks his doubting apprentice after their first demonic encounter. “Spinning heads and pea soup?” Neither of those memorable moments from The Exorcist read more …