Monkey Business (Part 3: July)

By Bill Gibron

Finally, a month with only one remaining series contender. All wizard based Potter-y aside, this will be the most tenuous time for the business called show. After a strong start, the eccentric collection of entertainments here could make or break this potentially record shattering motion picture season. [3 May 2007]

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

By Renee Scolaro Mora

The cluttered storyline of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen amounts to a convoluted treasure hunt. [24 June 2009]

Transformers

By Erik Hinton

Consider the patience and time it takes to build a ship in a bottle. Now imagine a fully functional Spanish Armada in a snow globe. [26 October 2007]

Transformers (2007)

By Cynthia Fuchs

The point here is excess. For 144 minutes, the film pummels and pounds, delivering explosions, combat troops, speeding vehicles, computer codes, giant robots -- and more explosions. [3 July 2007]

Transformers (2007)

By Bill Gibron

Without the weight of an already formed franchise to pull it down, this filmic funhouse is allowed to spin wildly out of control. We simply sit back and enjoy the operatic ride.

The Island (2005)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson run around in an efficiently digitized near-future scary-scape, occasionally propelled by ethical questions about cloning. [21 July 2005]

Bad Boys II (2003)

By Cynthia Fuchs

In almost every way, Bad Boys II is larger, louder, and longer than the original. It is also more of the same. [9 December 2003]

Bad Boys II (2003)

By Cynthia Fuchs

For this invasion, they need extra firepower and get it, including useful high tech surveillance courtesy of the CIA: this is Bad Boys II's most outrageous fantasy, that this agency has its act together. [17 July 2003]

Pearl Harbor (2001)

By Mike Ward

Pearl Harbor's endorsement of military ideals and barely submerged nostalgia for the war's anti-Japanese racism only abates for a half hour of stunningly rendered shoot-em-up as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and its surrounding airfields takes place. [1 January 1995]

Short Ends and Leader: ‘Fallen’ Fails the ‘Transformers’ Franchise

In the history of half-baked blockbusters, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is raw and runny. [23 June 2009]

Will the new ‘Transformers’ film have ‘The Touch’? [3 July 2007]