Articles by David Guzman

“Prowl” is one of those horror films that gets the horror part right and the film part wrong. Although most of the scares are effective, […]

Lots of movies as stunning as Rwanda’s “Matière Grise (Grey Matter)” languish on the festival circuit, but there aren’t many that are as self-aware as […]

For a comedy-horror hybrid that speeds along as quickly as “Sint” does, it’s amazing how it doesn’t go anywhere that exciting. It’s so determined to […]

It’s not easy for “The Bang Bang Club” to dramatize the career highs and lows of the real-life newspaper photographers at its center, especially given […]

“Rio” is far from the first film to go through an I-think-I-can story arc, although audiences shouldn’t appreciate its ambition any less. Besides, kids are […]

If there’s anything about “Soul Surfer” that absolves its sins as a by-the-numbers biopic, it’s the honesty it approaches its principal character with. It discovers […]

Like “Night of the Living Dead” or “Suspiria,” “Insidious” is a barrage of horrifying moments with agreeable drama in between, which is more difficult to […]

One of the best scenes from “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules” works in a way that it really shouldn’t. That’d be the scene […]

When you get right down to it, “Paul” is a movie that shares a kinship with “Meet the Spartans” and “Vampires Suck.” While there’s a […]