T Categories Features Movies December 19, 2022 The 25 Best Films of 2022 From After Yang to Top Gun, we break down our favorite movies of the year.
A Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month May 16, 2022 Armageddon sees Michael Bay at his most Michael Bay, just before big changes Bay's style reaches an apex in his humanity v. asteroid flick, which changed his reception forever.
T Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month April 27, 2022 The Rock remains a quality cornerstone of Michael Bay’s career For one film, Michael Bay managed to wrangle all his fixations into popcorn nirvana.
M Categories Movies Reviews April 7, 2022 Michael Bay’s Ambulance resuscitates the mid-budget heist thriller Armed with $40 million worth of drones and Jake Gyllenhaal, the action auteur delivers one of his most relentlessly entertaining exercises in cinematic excess.
B Categories Anniversaries Features Movies May 27, 2021 Between Bayhem and banality: “Pearl Harbor” at 20 With his 2001 epic, Michael Bay solidified himself as an all-American auteur, as well as the bombastic concept of Bayhem.
& Categories Movies Reviews December 10, 2020 “Songbird” is a pandemic thriller that never sings Adam Mason's near-future COVID tale is an unnecessary idea made worse by a rushed script and cheap production values.
2 Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies May 31, 2020 2009’s “Friday the 13th” reboot turns Jason into a murderous pot farmer Marcus Nispel's confused, uninspired revamp of the franchise stresses the importance of not touching Jason's stash of sticky-icky.
B Categories Movies January 15, 2020 Bad Boys for Life Review: Boys to Men The third entry in the irreverent buddy-cop series looks at old versus new without coming to any real conclusion or purpose.
6 Categories Movies December 13, 2019 6 Underground Review: Pure-Strain Bayhem Comes to Netflix Michael Bay turns his singularly amped-up aesthetic to a Netflix blockbuster that's even more brain-dead than usual.