Anna Review
Is Anna a return to form for its troubled director – or frivolous and forgettable like his more recent work?
Luc Besson
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Home Entertainment Review: Lucy
Lucy (Luc Besson, 2014) – Luc Besson’s Lucy is an absolutely insane attempt to fuse comic book action storytelling with grandiose philosophical pretentions. The writer/director has failed in his ambitions to be profound, but failed in such lovably ludicrous ways that his movie is almost more entertaining than it would have been if he had […]
Taken 3 Review
Taken 3 couldn’t be any weaker or any more of an unfunny, time wasting joke if its final scene ended with a thunderous fart noise. It doesn't give a damn about filmmaking or giving a paying audience a decent action movie.
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Lucy Review
Luc Besson’s Lucy is a certifiably insane film, and that's mostly a positive.
Brick Mansions Review
Nowhere near as fun as the original French District B13, the dull and lifeless Brick Mansions takes itself way too seriously for a film that has a plot revolving around parkour and a neutron bomb. It's disappointingly boring.
3 Days to Kill Review
Alarmingly misguided, horribly directed, astoundingly racist, and insanely incomprehensible, the McG/Luc Besson/Kevin Costner team-up 3 Days to Kill best's last week's previous low water mark set by Winter's Tale as the worst major studio release of 2013 so far, leading us further down one of the worst starts to any year in film history.
The Family Review
While it would be nice to say that the oddball Mafioso comedy The Family is a great return to form for French auteur Luc Besson, it wouldn’t be true. At best, it’s an intriguing misfire, full of style over substance, but the substance should be beefed up and the style cut back considerably.
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Lockout Review
While it never quite lives up to its hype as being an exact clone Escape from New York in space, Lockout manages some moments of cheesy fun and some decent action sequences.
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TIFF announces Gala & Special Presentation Line-up
It's that time of year again! With the 2011 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival just around the corner, the festival group today announced the first batch of special presentations and galas.
