Movie Reviews Published by San Jose Mercury News - Page 2 of 38

21-40 of 757 Reviews

Sort by:

Review of Arrival (2016)

By Tony Hicks (74) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 08 Nov 2016

Arrival arrives at a good time, as something of a salve for the ugly discourse going on and a reminder to us that thinking big is really worthwhile…

Read Review

Review of The Light Between Oceans (2016)

By Tony Hicks (74) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 30 Aug 2016

The Light Between Oceans is easily one of the year's most visually stunning films. Ironically, it's also one of the most difficult to watch…

Read Review

Review of Southside with You (2016)

By Tony Hicks (74) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 23 Aug 2016

In the end, Tanne has given us a movie that is warm and watchable without overdoing it…

Read Review

Review of War Dogs (2016)

By Tony Hicks (74) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 16 Aug 2016

I'd like to see someone make a documentary about Packouz and Diveroli, because there's a really interesting story here somewhere…

Read Review

Review of Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

By Karen D'souza (30) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 09 Aug 2016

Despite lively performances, handsome costumes and a lavish sense of 1940s high society, Florence Foster Jenkins just doesn't hit all the right notes…

Read Review

Review of Suicide Squad (2016)

By Tony Hicks (74) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 01 Aug 2016

It will be interesting to see where DC takes these characters after the semi-delightful mess that is Suicide Squad…

Read Review

Review of Jason Bourne (2016)

By Tony Hicks (74) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 26 Jul 2016

Until its final act, Jason Bourne is just another Jason Bourne movie. Producers seemingly couldn't even think up another title…

Read Review

Review of Ghostbusters (2016)

By Tony Hicks (74) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 12 Jul 2016

If you're a real Ghostbusters fan, your time would be better spent watching the original. Because this reboot doesn't deserve its name…

Read Review

Review of The BFG (2016)

By Karen D'souza (30) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 27 Jun 2016

Once the wonder of this world has sunk in, there's nowhere to go in this film, which can lull you straight into torpor…

Read Review

Review of Finding Dory (2016)

By Tony Hicks (74) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 13 Jun 2016

Of course, Dory has plot similarities to Nemo, but there is enough love and care devoted to everything from the characters on down that it…

Read Review

Review of Me Before You (2016)

By Tony Hicks (74) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 31 May 2016

Moyes and director Thea Sharrock kept the love story too shallow to be really intriguing…

Read Review

Review of Love & Friendship (2016)

By Karen D'souza (30) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 16 May 2016

An intelligent actress too often wasted in butt-numbing action movies, Beckinsale is endlessly captivating as a formidable woman low on funds…

Read Review

Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016)

By Tony Hicks (74) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 02 May 2016

In the race with DC Comics, Marvel still comes out on top when it comes to fun…

Read Review

Review of Dough (2015)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 26 Apr 2016

Dough is fun, a sweet-natured confection with a hopeful message about unity that is well-suited for our socially complex, divided times…

Read Review

Review of Papa Hemingway in Cuba (2015)

By Karen D'souza (30) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 26 Apr 2016

Yari's earnest but plodding biopic lacks a sense of sweep and truth, trading tropical landscapes for narrative depth in a way that diminishes…

Read Review

Review of A Hologram for the King (2016)

By Tony Hicks (74) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 18 Apr 2016

A Hologram for the King is disappointing mostly in that it could have been been better. But that doesn't make it bad…

Read Review

Review of The Jungle Book (2016)

By Tony Hicks (74) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 12 Apr 2016

Disney did pretty much everything right here…

Read Review

Review of Demolition (2016)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 04 Apr 2016

It demands a lot to make a complicated character like Davis sympathetic, especially as we watch him take a sledgehammer to his life…

Read Review

Review of Take Me to the River (2015)

By Randy Myers (265) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 29 Mar 2016

At a time when many films can be viewed and summarily forgotten, River unsettles and lingers long afterwards -- just like the ghosts that haunt…

Read Review

Review of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

By Tony Hicks (74) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 23 Mar 2016

DC and Snyder jammed a lot into Batman v Superman to get back into the game. And it often works…

Read Review

Page 2 of 38

San Jose Mercury News features reviews by:

Top publishers this month:

Popular Movies Right Now

Hillbilly Elegy

2020

61%141 Reviews

Parasite

2019

88%251 Reviews

No Hard Feelings

2023

65%90 Reviews

Avengers: Endgame

2019

86%432 Reviews

Top Gun: Maverick

2022

82%272 Reviews

Deadpool

2016

78%1,333 Reviews

Dune

2021

77%276 Reviews

The Prodigy

2019

53%39 Reviews

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

2023

85%233 Reviews

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

2021

66%228 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

Ghostbusters

1984

78%758 Reviews

Deadpool 2

2018

76%1,635 Reviews

Pineapple Express

2008

68%873 Reviews

The Post

2017

73%1,154 Reviews

Fantastic Four

2015

31%1,200 Reviews

Maleficent

2014

66%1,050 Reviews

The Help

2011

78%1,027 Reviews

Ready Player One

2018

72%1,541 Reviews

Hail, Caesar!

2016

59%1,211 Reviews

Closer

2004

74%871 Reviews