Independence Day

Lisa Schwarzbaum

And charm is the foremost of this epics contemporary characteristics. ( Read More )

Roger Ebert

Or, if they must kill us, I hope they do it with something we havent seen before, instead of with cornball ray beams that look designed by the same artists who painted the covers of Amazing Stories magazine in the 1940s.Still, Independence Day is in the tradition of silly summer fun, and on that level I kind of liked it, as, indeed, I kind of like any movie with the courage to use the line, Its the end of the world as we know it. ( Read More )

Everything feels anti climactic after the fireworks, but the moral is clear: its the end of the world as we know it. And we feel fine. ( Read More )

Rob Gonsalves

Forget government conspiracies about aliens what about the entertainment medias conspiracy to persuade America that this movie doesnt suck ( Read More )

Jami Bernard

The story is a mishmash concocted by no fewer than six writers, two of whom have credits that include Short Circuit 2 and Ghost Dad. ( Read More )