Action/Adventure Rated PG-13
"Director Marc Webb seems to have made The Amazing Spider-Man because … he was hired."
"…a far more conventional narrative arc, not to mention an alarming amount of franchise care."
Action/Adventure Rated R
“…a distinctly deliberate exercise in terror.”
“Our genre pictures are being burdened by a love of lore.
"Even its detractors – and this is a movie that’s easy to take potshots at – will have to admit that Cloud Atlas is more fluid than it has any right to be."
“Joss Whedon is a small-screen storyteller. And I mean that as a compliment.
A lot of critics went gaga over this installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise – which marked the live-action directorial debut of Brad Bird – but I found Ghost Protocol to be only mildly inventive. The showstopper of Tom Cruise clinging to the glass of that skyscraper in Dubai is thrilling, to be sure. And
“…a disturbing dose of science-fiction doom.
Another 1990s domestic parable chastising workaholic dads, The River Wild also functions as a gorgeous travelogue and a Meryl Streep action film. Director Curtis Hanson sure packs a lot into one river trip. Streep plays Gail Hartman, a mother and wife who has become exasperated with her absentee husband, Tom (David Strathairn). So she plans
“…has more personality than anyone should rightly expect from a two-hour-plus, CGI-heavy, sci-fi fantasy epic.
