Review: 'Furious 6' is dragged down by lousy lines and lazy characters
'Fast & Furious 6' is spectacular junk. Which is to say it is both spectacular and relentlessly dumb.
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'Fast & Furious 6' is spectacular junk. Which is to say it is both spectacular and relentlessly dumb.
'Frances Ha' is the year's most exuberant love story, even if the love involved is the love of friendship and life.
A hall-of-mirrors movie, 'In the House' is a fiction within a fiction within a fiction. The conceit is a nice one up until it's not.
The hopeful title of 'Epic' suggests big things in a way that a more accurate title, such as 'How to Train Your Hummingbird,' would not.
Four years ago, Bradley Cooper built a solid reputation as a scene-stealing supporting player. Ed Helms was best known for his sweet but buffoonish Andy on '
First things first: 'The Hangover Part III' is much better than the second 'Hangover.' 'Part III' is an odd piece of work, a twisty caper with a surprisingly dark tone that is more adventure than comedy.
New and notable this week on DVD are Steven Soderbergh's psychological thriller 'Side Effects' and season five of 'True Blood.'
This week's new releases for kids, teens and families include a video game-based 'Lego Batman' movie and the first season of Hub hit 'Aquabats.'
Beyoncé loved voicing Queen Tara in the new children's movie 'Epic' — at least once she stopped crying.
University of Michigan student Perry Janes has won a Student Academy Award for his film 'Zug.' Janes' is one of three films honored in the Alternative category.
— 'Star Trek: Into Darkness' has warped its way to a $70.6 million domestic launch from Friday to Sunday, though it's not setting any light-speed records with a debut that's lower than the studio's expectations.
While movie critics have been falling over each other trying to find the pithiest adjectives for 'flop,' director Baz Luhrmann's giddy, 3-D film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' scored $51.1 million at the box office last weekend.
The ugly news out of Hollywood this week was: It continues to be a man's world when it comes to movies. While that might be alarmingly, even increasingly, true, I still think women are on the move.
'Kon-Tiki' is one of those films that leave you stunned by the things men do. It is awesome in the true sense of the word.
Michael Shannon plays a cold-blooded killer in 'The Iceman,' director Ariel Vromen's true life story of New Jersey hit man Richard Kuklinski, who is said to ...
'Black Rock' is 'Deliverance' with girls, and that turns out to be a good and gritty thing. The film isn't really a horror movie as much as it is a film filled ...
'Erased' is warmed-over Bourne, minus the excitement. If you like high body counts and don't mind implausible turns, this might be the movie for you.
Thieves ripped a safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with around $1 million worth of jewelry, in a brazen late-night ...
"Star Trek Into Darkness" is out of this world. Replacing such well-established characters with instantly likeable and recognizable new actors was no minor ...
Simon Pegg, who reprises his role as engineer Montgomery “Scotty” Scott in “Star Trek into Darkness,” says the issues dealt with in the futuristic film come ...
New and notable on DVD this week are the stunning 'Cloud Atlas' and the seventh season of 'Dexter.'
Cecelia Crocker's body provides her with a constant reminder of the most traumatic event of her life — one that she doesn't otherwise remember.
Yes, that’s Isla Fisher appearing in two of the first major films of the summer-movie season: the latest adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” ...
Flagstaff, Ariz. -- The Hollywood image of Tonto once had the Lone Ranger's sidekick wearing a thin headband and lots of dangling fringes. The latest Disney ...
The director who rebooted 'Star Trek' for a new generation, sending the USS Enterprise out again to explore strange new worlds, has also been put at the 'Star ...
Leonard DiCaprio’s “The Great Gatsby” partied like it was the Roaring Twenties with a $51.1 million debut that made it a surprisingly strong runner-up to comic- ...
London — The next "Star Wars" movie will be shot in a galaxy far, far away from Hollywood — Britain.
Summer’s here and the blockbusters are flying. See “Iron Man 3” zip by; here comes “Star Trek into Darkness”; yahoo, “The Man of Steel” is on its way. But let ...
All the pieces are in place and the performers seem primed, but there’s something about “Gatsby” the movie that distracts from Gatsby the character.
"Peeples” isn’t a great title, so you might as well call it “Tyler Perry’s Meet the Parents.” Everything that ensues is straight out of the “Parents” playbook, ...
Tom Long Well, this weekend proved it: Robert Downey Jr. is the world’s biggest movie star. Let’s look at some quick numbers. Downey has made nine films since the first “Iron Man”...
Tom Long Experience isn’t everything. Neither is prior success. The box office this weekend should prove that once and for all. For the second year in a row the summer blockbuster season...
Tom Long At this point television is dealing with an age-old question: Is it possible to have too much of a good thing? Obviously television has too much of a bad thing....
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