“I’m not sure where the line is between a good gonzo movie and a creative mess, but I know that Snowpiercer is on the right side of it.”

“…represents the deconstruction – and then the hurried, harried reconstruction – of Tom Cruise.”

“There’s no personality to these movies, other than what the overqualified actors manage to squeeze out of their individual scenes.”

“Godzilla manages to give the beast the mythic mystique it deserves.”

“If you want to make your giant monster movie more of a character study, more power to you, but then the pressure’s on to create some truly captivating characters.”

“The picture’s fatal flaw is its inability to give us any consistent sense of Godzilla’s size.”

“…has a nice push and pull going on, between nostalgia for a time gone by and a piercing, contemporary relevance.”

“A throw-everything-at-the-wall movie, in hopes that something – the romance, the action, a villain maybe? – might stick.”

“…at once too big for the intricate ideas it wants to explore and too small for the saga it’s taken on.”

“If you were worried about this reboot lacking the wit of the original, those fears are allayed as soon as the MGM lion opens its mouth.”