Author: Rob Vaux

A tedious, astonishingly irritating march through scene after scene of quasi-Jungian horse flop.

writer, editor & film reviewer

It's flawless in its flaws, without a single redeeming element to obscure its idealized awfulness.

writer, editor & film reviewer

It's a car movie made by people who couldn't find reverse in a Volkswagen; a puzzle box thriller assembled by the functionally insane.

writer, editor & film reviewer

Michael Madsen? Michelle Rodriguez? ‘I’ll take “Actors Who Should Never Appear in Period Pieces” for $500, Alex.’

writer, editor & film reviewer

Julianne Moore] spends the entire film walking the razor’s edge: gauging the difference between brilliance and disaster before assertively losing her balance.

writer, editor & film reviewer

Fool! Dost thou not know that creepy children have cursed our screens in numbers too great to count, and by now, we find them marginally less terrifying than navel lint?

writer, editor & film reviewer

Only someone so smart could make a movie this stupid.

writer, editor & film reviewer

You say ‘psychotic codependency’ like it’s a bad thing.

writer, editor & film reviewer

Not even Ian McKellan can bring it to life… and when Ian McKellan throws in the towel, you know the difficulties are too large to fix.

writer, editor & film reviewer

Whew! That was close: something almost happened there for a minute.

writer, editor & film reviewer

You can actually hear the writers pulling ideas out of their butts and flinging them willy-nilly at the screen.

writer, editor & film reviewer

House of Wax is cheap, dirty entertainment, and it knows it.

writer, editor & film reviewer

Yeah Johnny, it’s got a Hemi. Too bad the rest of your movie is such a broken-down lemon.

writer, editor & film reviewer

I’d give real money to see the perpetrators of Chicago torn apart by dingoes.

writer, editor & film reviewer

My poor brain hung in there for as long as it could, but it lost its grip during the giant chicken attack and I haven’t seen it since.

writer, editor & film reviewer

Progressing from nowhere to nothing and leaving only a greasy taste in the mouth as a reward.

writer, editor & film reviewer

You’ll have more fun setting fire to yourself in the parking lot. You’ll be more entertained getting hit by a bus.

writer, editor & film reviewer

It’s obvious that nobody believed in this project longer than it took for the check to clear.

writer, editor & film reviewer

I suppose this is what we get for encouraging the man.

writer, editor & film reviewer

It doesn’t suck. Please take a moment to pick your jaw up off the floor and we’ll continue.

writer, editor & film reviewer

You could do worse… by which I mean you couldn't possibly do worse.

writer, editor & film reviewer