• Chappie

    Capsule Reviews: March 2015 Wide Releases

    Chappie Inferior mash-up of RoboCop and A.I. set in a dystopian Johannesburg where robots act as the police force. When a programmer illegally reprograms one of them to be sentient, the robot is "raised" by a couple of wannabe-gangsters (Ninja and Yolandi Visser from the South African band Die Antwoord, ...
  • Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

    Capsule Reviews: Summer 2014 Releases

    Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Despite the clichés/flaws in the screenplay, this is a MAJOR achievement. Grade: B+ Edge of Tomorrow So many things to praise in this Groundhog Day-meets-Starship Troopers of a movie. A perfectly cast Tom Cruise at both his smarmiest and most vulnerable. Emily Blunt ...