It’s truly difficult to figure out how to start writing this review of the new film Hitman: Agent 47, based on the popular video game series. What is there to say about a film so shallow and joyless whose greatest accomplishment is desensitizing its viewers to violence and murder to ...

Guy Ritchie has always been, if anything, a very stylish director. He launched his career with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, two very idiosyncratic films that wielded their surprising lowlife vulgarity as a kind of cinematic street art; these early films established Ritchie as an auteur with ...

Another sleepy (and incredibly hot!) Labour Day weekend resulted, as expected, in less-than-impressive numbers at the North American box office. Leading all films, rather surprisingly, is War Room, a Christian drama from director Alex Kendrick (Courageous, Fireproof), which succeeded in bumping Straight Outta Compton from the #1 spot it has ...