Tyler Perry’s A Fall From Grace
An all-around train wreck, this film's script reads like the first draft of a screenplay from a C student's high school screenwriting class.
Class of 1986: ‘Sid and Nancy’
Not quite the imperfect perfection in which punk music so often traffics, but a film of appropriately piercing volume and knotty shape.
Class of 1986: ‘The Name of the Rose’
Umberto Eco's assessment of this movie is unkind, but his book hasn't been stripped down to a tawdry whodunit. Here, the whydunit matters as much, if not more.
Class of 1986: ‘Wise Guys’
Brian De Palma is the last person you'd expect to attempt artful zaniness, so there's clearly some fascination to be found even in a failure such as this.
Class of 1995: ‘Mute Witness’
For a film forged by favors and trial-by-fire filmmaking, it earns its place in the panoply of ’90s psychological thrillers that throw you for a loop…or six.
Hot Tub Time Machine 2
The Platonic ideal of a sorta-welcome comedy sequel we didn't need, "HTTM 2" proves some bottles aren't built to hold much more than a single bolt of lightning.
Tak3n
"Tak3n" picks up where the series disappointingly left off — Liam Neeson as more badass than dadass — but at least the actor makes a go at his character again.
Class of 1994: “Léon”
More like a journey than just a joy-buzzer jolt of action, "Léon" is the movie people mean whey they rave about "The Professional."