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Tag: Action/Adventure

Furious 7 (2015)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

“The ending of Furious 7 is downright touching…”

Fast Five (2011)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

“…achieves the sort of zen chaos that defines the Die Hard films.”

Fast & Furious (2009)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

“…a combination of kinetic filmmaking and hulking charisma that can only be called bro bliss.”

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

“…by far the most formally intriguing installment in the franchise.”

2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

“…has half the racing scenes, twice the plot and none of the Vin Diesel.”

Chappie (2015)

Action/Adventure Rated R

“…most of the tonal choices made to flesh this out are disastrous.”

Unforgiven (1992)

Action/Adventure Rated R

“…perhaps the best argument for Clint Eastwood as a savvier, craftier and more complicated filmmaker than the one many consider him to be.”

Jupiter Ascending (2015)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

“…concludes in a gigantic fireball of insignificance.”

Blackhat (2015)

Action/Adventure Rated R

“…manages an idiosyncratic pulse for a cyber-thriller, and that’s due largely to Mann.”

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

“The equivalent of watching a game of Risk, with all the emotional involvement such an activity would hold.”

Recent Reviews

By the Time It Gets Dark (2016)

Drama Rated NR

“While always mesmerized, I admittedly got lost amidst the layers…”

Two Minutes Late (1952)

Drama Rated NR

“… aims to be a big-screen version of a lurid pulp crime novel.”

Xiao Wu (Pickpocket) (1997)

Drama Rated NR

“… a scrappy, neo-realist tale of societal scrounging that’s paused by poetic moments of slow cinema.”


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