Christmas might be the most wonderful time of the year, but it's becoming a pretty bad day to go the movies. This holiday, moviegoers have a full slate to pick from: from yet another Night at the Museum sequel to the Annie remake. The problem is that they're turning out not to be very good.
Easy A director Will Gluck's modern Annie update is getting dogpiled on by reviewers. The Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney calls it a "toxic mess," while the Newark Star-Ledger's Stephen Whitty quips, "Think you've got a hard-knock life? Try sitting through the new Annie." In other impending trainwrecks, Slant magazine's Drew Hunt calls Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb "an uncomfortably transparent contractual obligation," while Angelina Jolie's Unbroken, which appears to be campaigning for the Best Picture Oscar of 1982, is getting lukewarm reviews. The New Yorker's David Denby warns that it's "an interminable, redundant, unnecessary epic devoted to suffering, suffering, suffering."
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