“…both a drag and a hoot (and unfortunately more of the former than the latter).”

“With Mockingjay – Part I, the series becomes a clever commentary on the genre it helped cement.”

“What many had hoped would be Christopher Nolan’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is, instead, 2014: An Exposition Odyssey.”

“…when Luke and Darth Vader face off before the drooling Emperor, the franchise comes to its rightful fruition.”

“The noir fatalism seems secondary to the imagery, whereas in Sin City the imagery served the ideas.”

“If the first film was a brilliant bit of science-fiction imagining (laced with an undercurrent of old-fashioned gee-wizardry), its sequel is where things became epic.

“A remake of a remake, Last Man Standing fails to pay its homage well.”

“…throbbing with metaphorical implications. The riveting, stop-motion battle between the great ape and a T. Rex is just a bonus.”

“…bills itself as the summer movie that every red-blooded American is duty-bound to see.”

“…so stuffed with pop-culture references that if you removed them the entire movie would likely collapse.”