Black Hawk Down (2001)

Cool violence is no more able to make up for the absurdities of the story than it is in The Matrix, which was Kurt Wimmer’s model.

Oh dear. One movie at a time, Mr Shyamalan!

Like so much of the rest of Neil LaBute’s output, this is a good movie in a bad — I think a very bad — cause.

The comic foundations of the original Barbershop are not sturdy enough to bear the weight of another such edifice

A guy-comedy which dares to take the frat-boy romance with extremes of inebriation into disturbing new territory

Enemy at the Gates, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, aspires to the Saving Private Ryan level of spectacle, but offers a bit more in the way of dramatic coherence. What a curious way it has, however, of representing for us the vast slaughterhouse of the Battle of Stalingrad—that is, as a solo duel between a Russian…