Brandon Fibbs

Brandon Fibbs BrandonFibbs.com Jul 18, 2011 9/10 Unlike nearly every adaptation Hollywood produces, the Harry Potter films, taken individually or as a whole, are worthy-epically worthy-of their literary source material. Go to Full Review Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) 96% 91%

Brandon Fibbs BrandonFibbs.com Jul 6, 2011 8.5/10 Rango is Disney by way of Hunter S. Thompson, Chinatown recast with a lizard, Blazing Saddles with existential angst, Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns romanticallyspoofed. Rango is both weird and wonderful. Go to Full Review Rango (2011) 88% 70%

Brandon Fibbs BrandonFibbs.com Jul 6, 2011 7/10 One complaint you cannot level at Limitless is that it is unoriginal or uncreative. In an upcoming summer of senseless sequels and repugnant remakes, Limitless-warts and all-is at least something we've never seen before. Go to Full Review Limitless (2011) 68% 74%

Brandon Fibbs BrandonFibbs.com Jul 6, 2011 3/10 Although I will likely be disemboweled from my toes to my nose (metaphorically speaking only, I hope) for this proclamation, I didn't think Season of the Witch was all that bad!* Go to Full Review Season of the Witch (2011) 11% 30%

Brandon Fibbs BrandonFibbs.com Jul 6, 2011 2/10 Priest is the sort of movie you walk into knowing full well its IQ is significantly less than the bucket of popcorn balanced in your lap... Go to Full Review Priest (2011) 16% 46%

Brandon Fibbs BrandonFibbs.com Jul 6, 2011 8/10 In a summer unfortunately glutted with superhero movies, every one an origins story, X-Men: First Class not only eclipses its competition, but also each of its franchise predecessors. Go to Full Review X-Men: First Class (2011) 86% 87%

Brandon Fibbs BrandonFibbs.com Jul 6, 2011 7/10 Director Justin Lin has a spooky, second sense for staging bombastic action sequences, even if he breaks every law in physics to make them work. Go to Full Review Fast Five (2011) 77% 83%

Brandon Fibbs BrandonFibbs.com Jul 6, 2011 5/10 It's not that Cars 2 is bad-it's just ordinary, and Pixar has never made ordinary. Go to Full Review Cars 2 (2011) 40% 49%

Brandon Fibbs BrandonFibbs.com Jul 6, 2011 5/10 Kung Fu Panda 2 is all just a bit too familiar, a bit too common, a bit too unimaginative. In the real world, recycling is a great and admirable thing. In cinema, it is a death knell. Go to Full Review Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) 82% 74%

Brandon Fibbs BrandonFibbs.com Jul 6, 2011 5/10 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides suffers from an extraordinary lack of imagination, something that cannot be said of its predecessors, convoluted and impenetrable though they may have certainly been. Go to Full Review Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) 32% 54%

Brandon Fibbs BrandonFibbs.com Jul 6, 2011 2/10 If serendipity is a collision of happy accidents that produce something greater than the sum of their parts, then The Green Lantern is its unlucky antonym, a film far less impressive than its superior individual ingredients. Go to Full Review Green Lantern (2011) 25% 29%

Brandon Fibbs BrandonFibbs.com Jul 6, 2011 4/10 This is not a case of imitation being the sincerest form of flattery-it is indolent narcissism of the most nauseating kind. Go to Full Review The Hangover Part II (2011) 35% 52%

Brandon Fibbs BrandonFibbs.com Jul 5, 2011 6/10 Larry Crowne is neither dinner nor dessert, but rather the tasty and ultimately inconsequential appetizer you enjoy before moving on to the more substantive fare. Go to Full Review Larry Crowne (2011) 35% 41%

Brandon Fibbs BrandonFibbs.com Jul 1, 2011 2/10 There are those who claim Transformers: Dark of the Moon is light years better than its misogynistic and puerile predecessors. Do not believe their rancid deceit. Go to Full Review Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) 35% 55%

Brandon Fibbs BrandonFibbs.com Jun 21, 2011 6.5/10 Black Death is the feel bad movie of the year, a film with an unrelentingly bleak view of humankind's barbaric nature and the notion that, no matter what your creed, violence only ever begets more violence. Go to Full Review Black Death (2010) 72% 49%

Brandon Fibbs BrandonFibbs.com Jun 21, 2011 7/10 Radnor's characters never shut up, which here at least is a very good thing. I'd love to see a Comfortablywiseryourewelcomesurprisinglycontent sometime in his future. Go to Full Review Happythankyoumoreplease (2010) 42% 60%

Brandon Fibbs BrandonFibbs.com Jun 21, 2011 5/10 Like a lover who brags about his prowess in bed but cannot deliver when the moment comes, the climax is overlong, tedious and deeply disappointing. Go to Full Review Hanna (2011) 71% 66%

Brandon Fibbs BrandonFibbs.com Jun 21, 2011 6/10 The problem with the current crop of superhero movies is that once you've exhausted the A-list, you begin reaching for the second string personalities who do not have the same sort of populist street cred. Go to Full Review Thor (2011) 77% 66%

Brandon Fibbs BrandonFibbs.com Jun 21, 2011 8/10 It is artistically dishonest and embarrassingly naive to grant the status of "classic" to something only newly born. For a film to be called a classic, it must first stand...oh hell, who am I kidding? Bridesmaids is an instant classic. Go to Full Review Bridesmaids (2011) 89% 76%

Brandon Fibbs BrandonFibbs.com Jun 15, 2011 7.5/10 Despite the complete chaos, Super 8's conclusion somehow felt anti-climactic, a blunt and barbaric cinematic shock-and-awe campaign when what had come before it had been handled with the precision of a surgical SEAL team strike. Go to Full Review Super 8 (2011) 81% 75%