Movie Reviews
Movie Review Central movie archive for film reviews, movie listings, classics, new releases, and related review content.
Movies movie review archive
Browse this Movie Review Central archive for individual movie reviews, film notes, latest additions, and related review pages. These category pages help connect featured reviews, latest reviews, and the full review library.
The Estate (2022)
Kathleen Turner returns to the big screen playing a dying millionaire who suddenly has numerous relatives kissing up to her to inherit some of her fortune in "The Estate." Director-screenwriter Dean Craig ("Love, Wedding, Repeat" 2020) has inculcated this black comedy with so much coarse language and [..]
The Old Way (2023)
"The Old Way" is a western drama starring Nicolas Cage as a farmer and retired gunman who goes on a mission to find the outlaws who killed his wife. Director Brett Donowho ("Acts of Violence" 2018) and screenwriter Carl W. Lucas put together an enjoyable and watchable [..]
Haunted Mansion (2023)
"Haunted Mansion" tells the story of a woman who hires a team of people to help exorcise her recently purchased mansion of evil spirits, with mixed results. Predictable comedy ensues, sloppily directed by Justin Simien ("Dear White People" 2014) from a poorly written screenplay by Katie Dippold. [..]
Barbie (2023)
Director Greta Gerwig ("Little Women" 2019) and her new film "Barbie" have taken the entertainment world by storm. Based on the Barbie fashion dolls by Mattel, this first live-action Barbie movie tells the story of Barbie and Ken as they leave Barbieland to travel to Los Angeles, after [..]
Skyscraper (2018)
"Skyscraper" is an action-adventure film about a former FBI agent and security specialist who must rescue his family from a Hong Kong skyscraper when terrorists set fire to the structure. Director-screenwriter Rawson Marshall Thurber ("We're the Millers" 2013) filled the movie with loads of action sequences (especially [..]
Road Trip (2000)
"Road Trip" is a road sex comedy movie from director Todd Phillips in his big screen debut. Phillips also wrote the screenplay, with Scot Armstrong, which tells the story of high school sweethearts who attend different colleges, in New York and Texas, and have trouble maintaining their [..]
Oppenheimer (2023)
The Best Picture of 2023 is....."Oppenheimer." Producer-director-screenwriter Christopher Nolan ("Tenet" 2020) has put together quite a cinematic extravaganza about the life and times of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, from his running the Manhattan Project in the early 1940's to a subsequent fall from grace in the 1950's. [..]
Red Notice (2021)
Director Rawson Marshall Thurber and actor Dwayne Johnson team up for a third time in "Red Notice." The story has Johnson playing an FBI agent tracking a missing artifact from the first century that was a gift from Roman general Mark Antony to Egyptian ruler Cleopatra. [..]
Triple Frontier (2019)
"Triple Frontier" is an action-adventure picture from director J. C. Chandor ("All is Lost" 2013) that tells the story of five U. S. Army Delta Force friends who reunite to plan a major heist of a South America crime kingpin. Despite an uneven storyline in the first [..]
End of Watch (2012)
"End of Watch" is a finely crafted crime drama about two LAPD officers who patrol the dangerous streets of the South Central Los Angeles area. Producer-director-screenwriter David Ayer ("Harsh Times" 2005) evidently did his research, as the film has an authentic feel to it. [..]