Movies
Maybe in retrospect, the question shouldn’t have been: “Why are we skeptical of any pure action movie that doesn’t star Liam Neeson” but, “isn’t it amazing we set that skepticism aside so often for Liam Neeson in the first place?”
March 23, 2015
24 Frames
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Nov. 16, 2010
Not-so-evil ‘Dead’: Is horror the new action?
April 8, 2013
Awards
Bucking the trend, several genre movies have won the best picture Oscar.
Nov. 13, 2014
Entertainment & Arts
The video-on-demand cable offering, called Impact, features films and television shows in the genre.
Aug. 13, 2008
Just before the wild stunt climax in “The Hard Way,” a film that revels in the farcical sparring between an ill-tempered New York cop and the pampered young actor he’s been ordered to baby-sit, the movie star manages to mock Hollywood’s screwy perceptions of reality and the entire action-film genre in one flurry of silly dialogue.
March 8, 1991
Sharp suits? Check. High-tech gadgets? Check. Acrobatic femme fatale with blades for feet?
Feb. 13, 2015
On Film: Many of the movies at Sundance featured familiar genre trappings so as not to be alienating, but they were fresh and distinctive enough to seem somehow new.
Feb. 1, 2014
RICHARD LINKLATER doesn’t consider himself an auteur because he doesn’t know “what the standard is.
May 7, 2006
Martial-arts star and filmmaker Michael Jai White returns in a movie with a clear affection for horse operas but not much of a clue when it comes to coherence.
Sept. 16, 2023