Movie reviews of Hope Madden

2017, Drama, Suspense

Together they have drawn so much investment in these characters and their futures that you can’t help but stay tuned and attentive.

2017, Drama, Suspense

Offers style to spare, but it’s too shy with substance.

2017, Drama, Horror, Mystery

A big stew, and it’s equal parts self-indulgent and self-pitying.

2016, Horror

Offers a peculiar, sloppy bit of macabre that manages to be more memorable than it is enjoyable.

2017, Drama, Comedy, Love

No problem appears to be especially troubling, no solution feels earned, no relationship looks authentic.

2017, Drama, Horror, Suspense

Muschietti’s approach to plumbing your fear has more depth than that and he manages your rising terror expertly.

2016, Drama, Suspense, Crime

Dips into horror territory, not necessarily a bad thing, but the film can’t make its shifting approach feel anything but jarring...

2017, Drama, Comedy

Offers a pantload of intriguing character work and suggests the vision of a worthy director. The script just needed another draft.

2017, Drama, Suspense, Crime

Both exhilarating and exhausting.

2017, Action, Suspense

The film won’t satisfy your blood lust, your peaceful dreams or your hope for a decent movie. But damn, its timing is eerie.

2017, Drama, Suspense, Crime, Mystery

A fine, if flawed, police procedural.

2017, Adventure, Horror, Comedy

Endlessly fascinating, adorably dangerous and fun. Existential dread has never been so charming.

2017, Action, Comedy

A disposable action comedy...

2017, Drama, Suspense

Still manages to tell its own peculiar and poignant story.

2017, Drama

Walls’s remarkably balanced portrait of wanderlust, addiction and damage is utterly lost.

2017, Horror, Suspense, Mystery

Sandberg offers little in the way of originality. But there are jumps aplenty and a couple of very freaky images in the third act.

2017, Drama, Suspense

Several of the action sequences are interesting and flashy...

2017, Fantasy, Horror, Action, Western, Science fiction

Nikolaj Arcel manages to take this Cliff’s Notes version of King’s prose and still produce something bloated and slow.

2017, Drama, Comedy

For all its insightful moments and clever lines, feels a bit unwieldy and murky.

2017, Action, Suspense, Mystery

Unplug, soak up that Berlin vibe and appreciate the action and you’ll do fine.

2016, Drama, Horror, Comedy

Becomes too predictable and too sentimental once it embraces this cliché, but that’s not reason enough to condemn it.

2017, Adventure, Action, Science fiction

Go in looking for an overly long, addle-brained extra-terrestrial romp that looks great and you’ll be fine.

2017, Drama, Action, History, Suspense, War

A spare, quick and simple film that is equally epic.

2017, Documentary

He uses these to articulate, in clever and sometimes wryly funny fashion, the history unfolding.