“Truth or Dare” Movie Review by Van Roberts
“Kick Ass 2” director Jeff Wadlow and television writer Michael Reisz must have watched all six “Final Destination” movies, “Ouija,” and “It Follows” before they made “Truth or read more...
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“A Quiet Place” Movie Review by Van Roberts
The use of breathless silence to create white-knuckled suspense in a horror chiller as the characters await the inevitable confrontation with evil separates good scary movies from bad. Silence is read more...
“Pacific Rim Uprising” Movie Review by Van Roberts
Mind-numbing nonsense from fade-in to fadeout, “Pacific Rim Uprising” (** OUT OF ****) lacks the stellar cast and the suspenseful Armageddon melodrama of its outlandish but entertaining read more...
“Pacific Rim” 2013 Movie Review by Van Roberts
“Hellboy” director Guillermo del Toro and scenarist Travis Beacham have caught Michael Bay and his “Transformers” franchise napping with the theatrical release of read more...
“Black Panther” Movie Review by Van Roberts
A groundbreaking magnum opus of cinematic marketing for African-Americans, “Creed” director Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther” (** OUT OF ****) has demonstrated the impact that a film can read more...
“Tomb Raider” Movie Review by Van Roberts
The long-awaited reboot of “Tomb Raider” (** OUT OF ****) runs out of momentum about an hour into its melodramatic, 111-minute running time. Basically, this low-tech, pedestrian, prequel to read more...
“The Strangers: Prey for Night” Movie Review by Van Roberts
Indeed, “The Strangers: Prey for Night” (** OUT OF ****) arrives ten years later as a belated sequel to writer & director Bryan Bertino’s 2008 horror chiller “The Strangers.” read more...
“Gringo” Movie Review by Van Roberts
Sophomore director Nash Egerton’s unsavory, amoral, comedy of errors “Gringo” (* OUT OF ****) qualifies as contrived, convoluted, and ultimately incoherent. This nice-guys-finish-first comedy read more...
“Peter Rabbit” Movie Review by Van Roberts
The brainiacs at Sony Animation who made “Peter Rabbit” (*** OUT OF ****) for kids should have aimed their hopped-up escapades about bunnies at adults. Most of the gags in this hybrid, read more...
“Death Wish” Movie Review by Van Roberts
Horror movie maestro Eli Roth’s lukewarm remake of the notorious vigilante thriller “Death Wish” (*1/2 OUT OF ****), with Bruce Willis taking over the role that elevated Charles Bronson to read more...
