Serenity

Serenity is a trim little picture of epic proportions.Read Full Review »

No matter what's coming their way, post-apocalyptic doom or gloom, this James Gang of the galaxy is just plain fun to watch.Read Full Review »

A highly entertaining piece of genre-blending fun.Read Full Review »

Jaw set but never stiff, he (Fillion) gets both the Whedon wit and the Whedon grandiloquence between cheek and gum, and gives the whole enterprise the heft of a real saga.Read Full Review »

A fast-paced, engaging science fiction adventure tale.Read Full Review »

Serenity is made of dubious but energetic special effects, breathless velocity, much imagination, some sly verbal wit and a little political satire.Read Full Review »

Although Mal is ostensibly the movie's hero, and River its heroine, Whedon does a good job of giving all onboard their own story arc, their tragedies and triumphs. The cast, to a man (and woman), is solid, although it's the ballet-trained Glau, who gets to mope in high angst and go Zhang Ziyi-crazy in a couple of martial-arts scenes, who steals the show.Read Full Review »

I mean Serenity no disrespect when I say it's enjoyably junky.Read Full Review »

Scene for scene, Serenity is more engaging and certainly better written and acted than any of Mr. Lucas's recent screen entertainments.Read Full Review »

Though richly allegorical, Serenity also works as a rousing and unabashedly manipulative adventure that never takes itself too seriously.Read Full Review »