Tom Keogh

That’s a lot for a viewer to take in, and as pleasing as some aspects of Your Name can be, there’s no question Shinkai’s overstuffed movie often trips over itself.

Despite the stakes, Mendeluk can’t scare up any particular urgency, largely because everything is so contrived and inauthentic.

D’Souza manipulates viewers’ passions while telling them who to blame for their bile. As for Hillary, D’Souza asserts she wants to nationalize all our industries and steal all our money. His lack of evidence undercuts his message.

I would rather have been scraping gum off my shoe than sitting there another minute.

Watching Left Behind's plodding screen adaptation may make you feel the Deity has already abandoned us to a shockingly dull post-apocalypse.

We're forced to listen to misogynistic rantings devoid of wit, entertainment value, or even authenticity.

There's a lost opportunity here.

Nearly incomprehensible story.

Can anyone but a lapsed Catholic possibly be interested in this unpleasant, anti-Papist creepshow?

A black comedy that never gets black enough to inspire Farrelly-style decadence.

The film isn't merely bungled. It's starved and battered by Lichtenstein.

Gun Shy can't rise on wobbly legs, and its real potential is lost for good.

It's insulting and devalues the experience of watching not just this film but all films.

A sequel from hell.

Looks plain silly without an appropriate tone or sustaining context.

Merely reconfigures the same predictable gross-out jokes, sentimental platitudes, and decorative sex that figure into half the screenplays in circulation.

Pours on some of the most ridiculous dialogue heard in a feature film in a long time.

Overpraised, intellectually soft, narratively unfocused, and thematically ambivalent.

In all, this film is a major disappointment with a few powerful highlights.

It's a complete drag.

This is pretty much a lazy film with a few lighthearted moments and no substance.

Looks and moves like a film whose vital organs were yanked before shooting commenced.

An excruciating misfire.

Don't be surprised if you exit Here On Earth feeling both moved and incredulous.

A painfully unfunny movie.

As with most non-Disney animated features, Trumpet of the Swan does make the Mouse look like a genius.

What we have here is a small story in an oversized setting.

I don't like Say It Isn't So, but I understand its karmic inevitability.