Movie reviews of The Massie Twins

Ultimately, the laughs are more prevalent than the chills, but a few death scenes are quite appealing in their ambition and design. Review

It may be only half a movie (with the length of two, at least), which makes judging the project’s storytelling prowess, character development, and narrative structuring largely preposterous (could anyone recommend the film to someone who hasn’t seen any of the ones before it?), but the sheer scope, logistics, and ambitions pursued – and realized – are difficult to dismiss. It’s ludicrously grandiose... Review

But for all the faults of editing and storytelling, Cookson gives a striking performance, crafting a believably conflicted, plied woman, full of fervor and conviction, and one who fascinatingly grasps the drawbacks – and the potential usefulness – of being invisible in a man’s world. Review

Fortunately, when the romantic comedy elements come across as trite or unconvincing, the attention to slapstick and creative skirmishes with imaginative props brings the picture back to its senses. Review

The characters are so uninspiring and unsympathetic that their failures and triumphs are just as worthless as the appalling storytelling decisions and the pitiful editing. Review

Eventually, the story goes off the rails. Review

A quiet, realistic, touching film, Good Will Hunting boasts a superbly written script, which is alternately insightful, romantic, funny, and heartbreaking. Review

Even supporting comic regulars Eugene Pallette and Alan Mowbray can’t save Topper from its pitifully lethargic construction. Review

In its efforts to be unpredictable, the film instead becomes unbelievable. Review

It’s nevertheless a fascinating examination of a horrendous crime, merging a police procedural with startling insights into the originations and circumstances of murder. Review

Fortunately, practical effects contribute to plenty of stunning visuals, including mutilated corpses and appalling crones. But for every amusing grotesquerie, a computer animated sequence threatens to destroy the momentum... Review

In the end, despite the unintentional humor of gene-spliced, ultimate-organism-breeding biochemistry for classified military programs leading to a frenzied, beachside bloodbath, the shoddy construction of the film is unforgivable. Review

To its credit, Stockholm is one of those films that is absorbing enough to push viewers to read up on the source material – a larger-than-life ordeal as fascinating as it is outlandish. Review

It doesn’t work; this isn’t an examination of the human condition as much as it is a meandering mess of unfocused snippets of familial tragedies, comically devoid of meaningful connections or resolutions. Review

The premise is perfect for laughs, though it’s an obvious take on What Women Want (and its recent iteration, What Men Want) and Big, with a few prominent notes of Tootsie. Review

Thankfully, it isn’t all a setup, just to manipulate the women into cooperation; they are indeed forced to fend for themselves in the wild. But the overlong runtime, the largely uninteresting personas, and some extremely suspect, revelatory coincidences sap the energy from the survivalist scenarios. Review

At the end of it all, despite a few amusing, anecdotal pieces of comedy, the characters are so disagreeable and unlikeable that viewers won’t care if everyone makes up, finds success, or murders one another. Review

Though the film is based on real events, there’s a Hollywoodized feel about the staging of the scenarios. Review

If His Girl Friday wasn’t so humorous, it might be a downright horrific examination of true love. Review

Lawrence Kasdan’s scripting, though borrowing a number of concepts from other pictures, has an ominous brilliance all its own. Review

But even with its intermittently amateurish editing, it’s difficult to dismiss the magnitude of what TST – and, by extension, this film – is trying to accomplish. Review

The tone is light and pleasant, with enough successful humor and romance and table-turning drama to craft an enjoyable bit of entertainment. Review

Even the outdated, idealistic view of governmental underpinnings and the unlikely leniency of tempestuous thugs can’t stop the film from being monumentally appealing. Review

It’s an exciting and triumphant finale, concluding adventurously and romantically, like many of the era’s greatest epics. Review