Author: Robert Levin
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Review: ‘Tonight You’re Mine’ Is Thin, One-Note and Hard to Sit Through
David Mackenzie’s Tonight You’re Mine offers an adequate travelogue depiction of Scotland’s T in the Park music festival, with a minuscule, tired story mixed in.…
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Review: ‘Dark Shadows’ Is Stale But Satisfying Thanks to Depp
Dark Shadows, the old ABC gothic soap opera, is such natural material for Tim Burton and Johnny Depp that you almost wonder why they bothered.…
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Review: ‘The Raven’ Is an Uninspired Waste of a Legend
Sometimes, it’s hard to avoid longing for the good old days, when movies about historic figures were about those historic figures and not the slapdash…
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Review: ‘Cabin in the Woods’ is A Horror Game-Changer
Genre dissections like The Cabin in the Woods are risky ventures. When filmmakers are clearly intent on both telling a story and offering a self-reflexive…
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Review: ‘Mirror, Mirror’ Is a Terrible, Generic Posioned Apple
Let’s come right out with it: Mirror Mirror is a disaster; a jokey, stagy bomb that sputters around like the worst faux-clever high school play…
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Review: Duplass Brothers’ ‘Jeff, Who Lives at Home’ Is Admirable, But Slight
In one sense, Mark and Jay Duplass continue their march toward the mainstream with Jeff, Who Lives at Home, their latest writing-directing effort. After all,…
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Review: ‘Silent House’ Is Gripping and Suspenseful, Until the Ending Ruins It
A gimmicky horror film from Chris Kentis and Laura Lau (Open Water), Silent House keeps you engaged until that timeless genre staple, the moronic plot…
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Review: Box Office Be Damned, ‘John Carter’ is a Cinematic Wonder
John Carter arrives in theaters today consumed by terrible buzz and reduced expectations, with prognosticators of all stripes predicting a monumental flop for Disney. It’s…
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Review: ‘Project X’ Is A Long, Boring Beer Commercial
A character in Project X touts the onscreen house party as the most epic one of all time. There’s no doubting that. Filmmaker Nima Nourizadeh…