Christian Hamaker

Doesn't make any pretense of sticking strictly to the synoptic Gospel narratives, but neither is it designed to throw unorthodox beliefs in the...

If The Lego Movie and Paddington showed the right way to adapt family movies from pre-existing properties, Rachet & Clank, pointlessly plotted with...

Three of our finest actresses join Chris Hemsworth for a tale of what occurred before Snow White and the Huntsman, as well as the events that...

If you believe the "show don’t tell" dictum about how art should work, prepare yourself: God's Not Dead 2 is an endless stream of "telling" that...

Must all franchise finales be divided into two parts? The Divergent Series: Allegiant—Part 1 halts the downward slide in quality of these drawn out...

"I didn't ask to be super, and I'm not a hero," says Wade Wilson, also known as Deadpool. That's an understatement coming from a revenge-driven,...

Zombie buffs are more likely to get a charge out of this one than Jane Austen devotees. The film does offer interesting performances and an...

There’s a virtuous, life-affirming story to be told about these events, but the real men involved deserved better than this listless recounting of...

The story of a talking polar bear who longs to protect his Arctic habitat from a despicable developer feels pieced together from better films, and...

The spiritual struggle in Concussion is one all believers confront to some degree—how to open people's eyes when they are too comfortable with a...

After the excitement and energy of the first act, the film - one of the best in the series and much easier to follow than the prequels - develops...

The whale attack and a framing device featuring Herman Melville en route to writing Moby Dick are interesting, but the rest of the film fails to...

Just when the account threatens to lose interest, director and screenwriter Billy Ray inserts a shot of narrative adrenaline that the slow-building...

Although it improves as it goes, it digs a deep enough hole early on that, by the time it manages to dig itself out, it’s hard to know if the...

Bond fans will find enough connections to earlier Bond stories to feel satisfied with this bloated entry in the long-running series, which has seen...

Straddles the line between comedy and drama uneasily, never going anywhere new or pushing hard enough to define the type of story it's trying to...

So superbly crafted that it’s hard to dwell on any slight deficiencies. It's less about computer circuitry than it is about the human heart.

It's not that the film is uninteresting visually or thematically, but it is unsurprising and feels more like two stories that, while obviously...