Action/Adventure Rated PG-13
"…after seeing The Hobbit I couldn’t wait to see it again – projected at 24 frames per second and without 3-D."
Action/Adventure Rated R
"…like a Tony Scott film made with less flair and cheaper equipment."
Coffy is at once a notable moment in female-empowerment cinema and a pervasive exercise in the objectification of women. It’s as if Gloria Steinem wrote a screenplay that was then handed off to Hugh Hefner to direct. After appearing in a couple of women-in-prison pictures, Pam Grier broke out as Coffy, a nurse with a
"Mendes distills the Bond ethos in a single sequence: it’s sex and death as irresistible surface and sheen."
"Without being remotely realistic … has a crunch that nonetheless feels authentic."
"Nothing quite excites and disturbs us as the prospect of time travel. Looper exploits that tension for all its worth."
"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."
“…a distinctly deliberate exercise in terror.”
“Our genre pictures are being burdened by a love of lore.