Series: Robert Zemeckis

Robert Zemeckis is one of the premier blockbuster directors of the 1980s and 1990s

So often, you hear great filmmakers talk about their love of film in spiritual terms.

Romancing the Stone’s biggest problem is that its opening is too good.

Normally when a film is cutting edge in visual effects, it looks like crap five years later, let alone thirty-five.

Robert Zemeckis is one of the defining popular filmmakers of the late 20th century.

Zemeckis’s best movie in many years. It’s a caper that doubles as a nifty CGI-driven thriller (recreating the Twin Towers and flying audiences above them) and an artistic confessional by Zemeckis (a creator who must conquer the next obstacle, even if it means potential self-destruction). I wish I had seen this in 3D.

Not the zippiest narrative, nor one that treads much surprising narrative ground, but there’s a lot of pleasure in letting movie stars be movie stars in a throwback period spy drama. Both Pitt and Cotillard are magnetic. This might be Robert Zemeckis’s least characteristic work — the only audacious visual gimmick is a sandstorm that […]

I will need to watch this again to fully process it. As a piece of entertainment, it is astringent and uncomfortable and not especially “good” in the common usage of the word. As a creative exercise of reflecting on a toxic compulsion to create art , a purging of a career’s worth of angst and […]

Pretty much the only thing I love in this is Anne Hathaway absolutely chewing through the film with the most outlandish accent you’ve ever heard. The CGI mice are horrible. And there are a few exciting scenes, but they’re frontloaded.

A wacky movie that shifts from black comedy to a simultaneous western and courtroom drama pastiche. Very anarchic sense of humor partially indebted to the cheap sex comedies of the era. But Zemeckis’s direction is a lot of fun, with some outstanding set pieces. Slightly less than the sum of its parts, but pretty good […]