Movie Review: “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol”
Tom Cruise is nothing if not shrewd. He has always tried to keep the “Mission:…
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Movie Review: “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows”
Guy Ritchie has tremendous visual style, but little to no discipline. In his previous films,…
Movie Review: “Mission: Impossible”
Bearing in mind that most TV-to-film adaptations are generally commercial failures, Brian De Palma’s 1996…
Movie Review: “Haywire”
Newbie action director and all-around busy guy Steven Soderbergh argues that this hard-edged spy thriller…
Movie Review: “Immortals”
It’s a story as old as time itself. No, I don’t mean the tale of…
Movie Review: “Killer Elite”
I haven’t read it, but I gather that author-adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes’ avowedly neither-fact-nor-fiction bestseller,…
Movie Review: “Scarface”
Any list of classic guy movies would be incomplete without an appearance from Brian De…
Movie Review: “Conan the Barbarian”
With just about every major action hero (from James Bond to Batman) getting a big…
Movie Review: “Cowboys & Aliens”
Cowboys and aliens in the same movie should create some together-at-last levels of euphoria, and…
Movie Review: “Ironclad”
Mel Gibson can rest easy: “Braveheart” is still the best historical action film of the…