Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a genre is for satirizing, unless you know how to do it, there are no guarantees.

There's nothing terribly wrong with The November Man in a serviceable late-night cable TV sort of way but neither is there anything terribly right about it. It's unnecessary and derivative.

This is as brain-dead as a movie can be and it assumes the audience will have the I.Q. of a rutabaga.

Since 1977, there have been many science fiction movies, but none has managed to equal [A New Hope's] blend of adventure, likable characters, and epic storytelling.

John Wick is a rousing action thriller of the sort rarely encountered in theaters these days.

A generic vampire tale in the Underworld vein that comes closer to the infamous Van Helsing than a memorable re-interpretation of a legendary monster.

The Drop's unpredictability is organic rather than sensationalistic. The movie doesn't pull surprises out of thin air for the sole purpose of shocking an audience - it lets them develop naturally.

Side note to parents: Anyone who thinks 'Dude, Where's My Car' is more appropriate for children than 'American Pie' because it obtained a PG-13 rating needs to stop trusting the MPAA.

Being snarky and smug doesn't equate to providing insight, and there's more than one occasion when the filmmakers lose sight of this in their zeal to spread the Gospel According to Maher.

For the most part, however, Lady in the Water comes across as a movie that's too bad to be good, and not bad enough to be so bad that it's good.

If you thought it was impossible for a film to contain less effective comedy than Date Movie, here's evidence to the contrary.

The world, full of past sound, would be like the sky, full of past light. The world would be like the mind, for which there is no once.

I hate to read books but a friend said he read the dictionary and that the Zebra did it.

Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.

It's not what you do, but HOW you do it. Because in the end everyone knows almost as much, just not the same way.

Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.

What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.

Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.

Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name

The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.

The part of you that is real, that is authentic, was never born and never dies. IT IS INFINITE. See yourself as an infinite being.