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Traitor
This Don Cheadle movie is a rare Hollywood creature: an action picture with ambiguity, a blockbuster with more questions than answers, a shoot-’em-up thriller with a sense of moral and geopolitical ambivalence.
"...rare Hollywood creature: an action picture with ambiguity, a blockbuster with more questions than answers, a shoot-’em-up thriller with..."

Aug. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Open Season
The animated Open Season is long on manic energy and bathroom humor but short on real storytelling, emotion, and characters.
"...Anthony Stacchi. Sometime over the last 15 years, an animated-blockbuster formula was carved onto stone tablets by Disney and..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Covenant
The Covenant is a sleek yet empty picture about four handsome high school seniors who possess supernatural powers and impossibly chiseled stomachs.
"...his directing style never veers far from the modern blockbuster school of filmmaking, which teaches that when you lack..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Krrish
A sequel to the Bollywood fantasy blockbuster Koi Mil Gaya.
"...at press time. A sequel to the Bollywood fantasy blockbuster Koi Mil Gaya, Krrish is the name of the..."

June 23, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Over the Hedge
Canny casting and a sly anti-consumerist message give this animated feature extra adult appeal, but like a lot of animated fare it’s overly busy and splashy.
"...down and kill you.” Yet DreamWorks’ entry in the cartoon-blockbuster sweepstakes (alongside Fox’s Ice Age: The Meltdown and Pixar’s..."

May 19, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Marebito
Although long on style and concept, this film lacks the primal urgency of Shimizu’s 2003 J-horror blockbuster Ju-on.
"...but lacks the primal urgency of Shimizu’s 2003 J-horror blockbuster, which successfully married its philosophical subtext – about grief,..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Tristan & Isolde
This new version of the timeless love story is a dopey, mopey, all-around bore.
"...Waterworld, recalls none of the spryness of his 1991 blockbuster, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (which hasn’t exactly aged..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Terminal
Steven Spielberg enters his Capra period with this optimistic melting-pot tale starring pal Tom Hanks, whose underused comic instincts come to the fore.
"...and gusto. The director who inadvertently invented the summer blockbuster with the release of Jaws in 1975 has now..."

June 18, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Men in Black II
"...too. At a quick 82 minutes, MIB II is blockbuster-lite; it moves roughly as fast as Kay drives the..."

July 5, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Big Day
"...of admission if you don't like the movie. Betcha Blockbuster hasn't promised the same...."

July 20, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Hit and Runway
"...playwright in black-rimmed glasses, comes together to write a blockbuster screenplay (titled, yes, Hit and Runway). Their script is..."

May 4, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Vertical Limit
"...and CGI effects peppered throughout, it's a lousy summer blockbuster invading your holiday space. Just say no...."

Dec. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

End of Days
"...shoddy acting, and, worst of all for an action blockbuster of this sort, subpar effects work, that it's all..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Chill Factor
"...figured so prominently in a certain other high-velocity action blockbuster a few summers ago), incinerating everything for hundreds of..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Mercury Rising
"...up. Not quite loud enough to be a seasonal blockbuster, Mercury Rising is instead more of a dull thud..."

April 10, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sphere
"...up and smell the cheese. For every Jurassic Park blockbuster there'll be three ponderous duds like Sphere or Congo,..."

Feb. 20, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Hard Rain
"...lensed James Cameron's The Abyss, but this misplaced summer blockbuster is so tired and formulaic that not even his..."

Jan. 16, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Peacemaker
"...originally slated for a summer release as it has “blockbuster” scrawled all over it in bold, intimidating strokes. In..."

Sept. 26, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

G.I. Jane
"...matter), G.I. Jane is terrific. But as the end-of-summer blockbuster it's doubtless intended to be, it's pretty much a..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fathers' Day
"...a bad rap, but when you've got an expectant blockbuster that stars Robin Williams and Billy Crystal and has..."

May 9, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Substance of Fire
"...persuade him to take on a novel with the blockbuster commercial potential to save the business, but Isaac Geldhart..."

April 25, 1997 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Dante's Peak
"...behemoth for what it is (a big, dumb summer blockbuster released a tad early) and you won’t be let..."

Feb. 14, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Horseman on the Roof
The film captures the heroic exploits of an Italian resistance soldier who falls in love with a French noblewoman during the French cholera plague of the early 19th century.
"...opening sequence could spin circles around any Hollywood summer blockbuster while the film's overall pacing waxes and wanes, reminding..."

May 31, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Last Summer in the Hamptons
"...that hound Helena's clan. Add to these problems the blockbuster-sized egos of the familial actors, directors, and writers, and..."

March 29, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Apollo 13
Howard's take on the ill-fated 1970 moon shot is filled with the almost unassailable heroics of the U.S. space program and the genuine urgency of history.
"...own merits and may be the only summer adventure blockbuster without bullets or warheads. At the risk of sounding..."

June 30, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Junior
"...everything he touches may not turn out to be blockbuster material, it is always assuredly competent and amusing. But..."

Nov. 25, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Terminal Velocity
"...makes almost perfect sense in light of this post-summer blockbuster wannabe. Playing off the success of Keanu Reeves' turn..."

Sept. 23, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Speed
Action. Action. Action. More Action.
"...sure-handed direction almost guarantee this to be a summer blockbuster the likes of which we haven't seen since James..."

June 10, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Das Boot
Back in 1981, when he was still working in his native Germany, director Petersen established himself as an action/suspense director par excellence. Set in a German U-boat during World War II, this claustrophobic suspense drama hasn't a weak bolt anywhere.
"...-- who went on to helm Clint Eastwood's summer blockbuster, In the Line of Fire -- established himself as..."

Oct. 15, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

House of Cards
"...more profound sense of wonder than any recent Hollywood blockbuster. House does wear its mysticism on its sleeve, trading..."

July 30, 1993 Movie Review by Robert Faires

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