Tag: John Malkovich

While typical thriller tropes fill time in the script, In the Line of Fire presents an engaging back-and-forth character drama.

Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman team up for a wildly inventive and magically clever meta-comedy, Adaptation.

Failure to Raid Built on an alpha male, macho foundation, the (literal) killer attitude of Mile 22’s secret government op is insufferably raw. The idea of this loud, booming, …

Lock It Up The twist in Unlocked concerns the villain. Using racial profiling, via Arabic dialect and vaguely Middle Eastern-looking actors, Unlocked suggests terrorists. It’s a trap and the …

Happiest Feet Ever Spin-off. Side story. Profit maker. Whatever the case or label, Penguins of Madagascar is raucously enthusiastic. The puns are as voracious as the pace. The set-up …

Warm Bodies is too self-aware to stop being wholly entertaining, merely disappointing.

For a film that moves at a languid pace, the complex narrative seemingly cuts out important bridging scenes that would have made it more enjoyable and easier to follow

As is always the case with sports films, the story that spawned this piece is fantastic.

Red is the type of movie that needs a core group of actors who love the content and the script they're performing.

It is hard to believe this wasn't tampered with by someone other than the director, Jimmy Hayward, because what's left is a shell.

John Malkovich plays one of those movie bad guys who can look at the screen at creep the viewers out. Mitch Leary is one of his best villain characters, …

If Mutant Chronicles were comprised only of its opening and closing segments, there would be a lot to forgive given the energy, style, and excitement. Actually, Mutant Chronicles is …