Tag: Colin Farrell

There's a strong thematic idea at Voyagers' core, but it's let down by rudimentary action and dull pacing.

Although covered by slick dialog, The Gentlemen draws too strict a line between heroes and villains when no one in this story is free of guilt.

Make it Stop The Tim Burton-directed adaptation is Dumbo seen through the eyes of a manic depressive. While sentimentality runs through Dumbo (softly eyeing an era of strongmen and …

Breaking Chicago Widows is a basic heist movie. It opens with a shoot-out. Chased by police, robbers attempt an escape in their van, firing shots from the open rear …

Shining Denzel Roman J. Israel’s office is covered in paper documents. Not only because it’s home to a lawyer, but because he won’t use computers. The one on his …

Find Them Here Removed from the scripting pressures and fervor over Harry Potter, this prequel, even if unnecessary, finds a sharp voice. Inundated with social commentary – of the …

Beastly It’s not easy being Fantastic Beasts, the film set in the 1920s, hovering through an ugly period of American history with an almost snobbish retrospect. There’s magic though. …

... its two-hour running time feels like an abbreviated version of a much longer story.

Epic is impossibly colorful when it wants to be.

Dead Man Down relieves itself of dramatic potential, splurging on clean exits which leave this droopy, often ugly overcast world with an inexplicable smile.

The film throws money at a problem it doesn't know how to solve.

The film has fun with itself, the writing self-aware and pushing past the vanilla, “Vampires exist?” conversations to plant itself into the thick of it.