Tag: universal

Liam Neeson fights corrupt feds in the routine but capable action thriller Honest Thief that delivers competent characters.

The star-studded western serial Riders of Death Valley starts out a little slowly but finishes with a flurry of action and cowboy grit.

Giving Doc Brown a full personality, Back to the Future Part III is his movie, and sends the series out in capable hands.

Back to the Future Part II doesn't avoid a challenge in either storytelling or visual effects, and makes sure to evolve Marty McFly's character.

Taking an awkward concept and turning into an example of screenwriting fluency, Back to the Future wastes nothing in achieving pop culture perfection.

Finding new life in this seventh Tremors entry, Shrieker Island provides needed characterization between frequent action.

Hitchcock turns the mundane into a terror with The Birds, treating the animals like a force protecting old morals.

Psycho breaks with perceived norms circa the early 1960s, lashing out against a more open culture emerging from Puritan values.

Vertigo belies its '50s era origin through a devious story of lust, obsession, and desperation, leading to an engrossing thriller.

Rear Window's relentless paranoia captures post-war America in a confined, tension-driven space.

Trolls World Tour doesn't hold back its equality message to ensure kids understand, and doesn't hold any surprises in its delivery either.

If the reaction is to reflexively shy away from The Hunt, it's best to ask why that is since the satire is reflecting a current reality.