Review: WARM BODIES Underplays the Zombie Thing With a Charming Romance
A sweet yet innocuous romance steeped in both Shakespearean motifs and shoegazing tropes, the saving grace of Warm Bodies (AKA 'the emo zombie film') is that it's quite charming, never completely falling into a farcical take on the subject matter.... More »
  

Review: STAND UP GUYS Stands Up to Scrutiny
Put Al Pacino, Alan Arkin and Christopher Walken together on screen, and it's a laconic dream team. Each is so delightfully quirky and menacing in their own unique style that it's clear the film's greatest coup is casting. Stick these... More »
  

Review: BULLET TO THE HEAD Offers Up Cinematic Cotton Candy
Bullet To The Head is more than just a Walter Hill project, or the newest movie starring the resurgent Sylvester Stallone. It's also shaped by the firm hand of producer Joel Silver, a man not known for keeping his cards... More »
  

Review: MOVIE 43 Asks the God of Comedy, "Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?"
Movie 43 really is an irredeemable experience. As you leave the cinema, you may curse the heavens and cry out, "Why?! Why, oh why, Comedy, did you allow yourself to be violated by the flaccid members of unoriginal, conventional and... More »
  

Review: PARKER - This Crime Dud Should Be Illegal
I like Jason Statham, I really do. I mean, sure, he's got the best first name of any actor that has ever lived, but I like the guy. I like that whatever movie he's in, he makes it his own.... More »
  

Blu-ray Review: Cronenberg's COSMOPOLIS
For those of us in Toronto, it's easy to take for granted what David Cronenberg's Cinema has meant for the rest of the world. One of the few truly great international filmmakers to come out of English Canada, his films... More »
  

Review: HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS is Bloody Entertaining
After lampooning Quentin Tarantino and resurrecting Nazi zombies, Norwegian writer-director Tommy Wirkola finally gets to unveil his English language debut. True to form, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters proves to be a goofy, yet thoroughly entertaining romp that blends the... More »
  

Review: MAMA, A Stylishly Directed But Disappointingly Predictable Horror Film
"Once upon a time," reads the title card that kicks off Mama, a supernatural horror film by first time feature director Andy Muschietti, which is being sold under the imprimatur of a much more famous name, Guillermo del Toro, who... More »
  

Review: BROKEN CITY Falls Down, Can't Get Up
Murky, unclear, and blunt, the first sequence in Allen Hughes' Broken City proves to be representative of the movie as a whole. NYPD Detective Billy Taggert (Mark Wahlberg) is presented as a wronged hero, an honorable officer who shoots a... More »
  

Review: Gorber & Marsh Duke It Out Over THE LAST STAND
Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to our screens this month in his first leading role since Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines back in 2003. The Last Stand casts him alongside Johnny Knoxville, Forest Whitaker and Peter Stormare in an adrenaline-fuelled neo-Western... More »
  

Review: GANGSTER SQUAD Is a Cartoon That Thinks It's Real
If Gangster Squad had been released last September, as originally scheduled, it would have been forgotten by now. There's a good chance it would have been forgotten by October. Instead, after some reshoots to avoid a coincidental resemblance to last... More »
  

Review: TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D Fails to Pay Tribute -- or Make Any Sense
John Lussenhop's Texas Chainsaw 3D opens with what are undeniably its best moments: the film's title credits, juxtaposed over a highlight reel of Tobe Hooper's 1974 original, stunningly post-converted into phenomenal 3D. Nearly 40 years later, Daniel Pearl's gritty photography... More »
  

Review: PROMISED LAND, A Well-Intentioned But Dramatically Inert Environmental-Issue Drama
Promised Land, the latest film from director Gus Van Sant, written by two of its actors, John Krasinski and Matt Damon, is nothing if not extremely topical. At its heart is the hot-button environmental issue of hydraulic fracturing, better known as... More »
  

Review: LES MISERABLES Delivers Most of the Emotion and Some of the Spectacle
When it became his privilege to direct the movie version of the Les Misérables stage musical that has enthralled the world for more than a quarter-century, Tom Hooper made one crucial, momentous decision. Instead of following the normal practice of... More »
  

Review: NOT FADE AWAY Fails to Start Me Up
For fans of the now-legendary HBO series The Sopranos, the Chase is on again. Chase as in David Chase, that program's uber-respected creator and detail-crazed driving force. Now, he's taken that amassed industry cred, and cashed it in to make... More »
By Jim Tudor   
  

Review: THIS IS 40 Has Laughs, But No Substance
The very first joke in This Is 40 -- a movie made in 2012 by experienced comedy professionals -- is about Viagra. That lazy, hackneyed start is a bad sign because it suggests that writer-director Judd Apatow, the reigning champion... More »
  

Review: THE GUILT TRIP

A Jewish man calls his mother in Florida. "Mom, and how are you." " Not too good," says the mother. "I've been very weak." The son says, "Why are you so weak?" She says, "Because, I haven't eaten in 38... More »
  

Review: THE IMPOSSIBLE is Too Soggy and Too Staged to Warrant Consequence
"Just close your eyes and think of something nice" is a refrain repeated several times during J.A. Bayona's Tsunami disaster film that sees Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts - and their three children - attempt to re-unite after a tidal wave... More »
  

Review: DEXTER S7E12, SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKER (Or, A Strong Conclusion To An Inconsistent And Frustrating Season)
For those keeping track of such things, yes. You are correct. Twitch gave a miss to reviewing Dexter for the past couple weeks because, quite frankly, after all the truncated storylines and soap opera diversions and struggles to maintain any... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Review: DJANGO UNCHAINED Is a Little Unfocused, But Bloody Good Fun
Quentin Tarantino's eighth feature film, Django Unchained, is his longest, his most narratively straightforward, and his N-word-iest. The godfather of modern gonzo filmmaking addresses American slavery and race relations the same way he has addressed other sensitive issues: by making... More »
  
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