John Travolta

Conventional, lacking in depth, and reliant on the artifical tension of action scenes to goose along an otherwise watchable but dull movie.

Qualifies, barely, as a guilty pleasure...with its generous scrapbook of literary wisdom and pleasantly overcooked performances.

As loosely adapted from Elmore Leonard's Get Shorty sequel novel, the sequel movie Be Cool tastes like a watered-down drink.

If you listen closely, you can hear your brain cells fizzling.

A straightforward, unfussy musical comedy, one that entertains twice as much as the dour Dreamgirls.

This is your action movie on drugs—any questions?

Are your kids ready for an existential movie? Turns out they are: Disney's CGI-animated action comedy Bolt is, at its core, a story of one individual's discovery that his sense of reality...has been seriously skewed.

Problematic but ultimately irresistible adaptation of Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey's hit Broadway musical.

'A remake and a hostage picture! Can both the good guys and the bad guys use Sony laptops?' Yes, they can.

If only Morel and Besson would have committed to satirizing, instead of merely exploiting, this superficially cool, destructively cold archetype of American firepower, they could’ve had more than multiplex filler.

A balls-out postmodern comedy par excellence. It's a Royale with Cheese. 

Oliver Stone, bless ’im, still believes in red-meat cinema.

Comes full up with heavy-handed signifiers, from Ben's choice of reading (Hemingway...) to a hammered motif of lapsed Christianity (the climax takes place in a rotting church) that underlines the theme of living with the sins of the past.