Every generation gets its Boiler Room.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 9, 2023

Paradoxically absorbing, yet cliched and empty, this power-based New York story is a bit of an entertaining thrill ride, probably far more popcorn-engrossing than it deserves to be...

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Aug 15, 2013

[An] ingenious, extremely violent thriller...

| Mar 28, 2011

You almost feel yourself getting smarter as you watch. Remember how you felt sitting through Transformers 2? Kind of the opposite of that.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 27, 2011

Better, part of me kind of thinks the film is maybe extolling the virtues of addiction, saying the pluses outweigh the minuses as long as you have enough self control to understand your limits and not overdue it.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 25, 2011

Good, if limited.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 24, 2011

What's fresh about this concept is how it turns perfect intelligence into a superpower and tries to imagine its real-world applications. What's less fresh is the ensuing plot...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 24, 2011

You could pick the script apart for impossibilities. But why bother? It's much more enjoyable to shut your brain off and have a good time.

| Mar 24, 2011

It's more Jan de Bont than Christopher Nolan, but when the ride is this exhilarating, sometimes the destination just doesn't matter.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 23, 2011

It's scatty and fast paced, and director Neil Burger employs some Gaspar Noé-style, bad-trip CG effects to heighten the mood.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 23, 2011

A loopy joy from start to finish, Bradley Cooper proves that he's the real deal.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 21, 2011

Very limited, actually.

Full Review | Mar 21, 2011

What would you do if you could take a pill and suddenly access 100 percent of your brain power? This is the premise behind Limitless, a sci-fi thriller that looks as if its makers utilized around 30 percent of theirs.

| Original Score: C | Mar 18, 2011

The filmmakers doesn't sweat the fact that Eddie is a chemically enhanced fraud. What scares them is any possibility of alienating the movie's target audience with a downer ending.

| Mar 18, 2011

Add it all up, including the nifty twist at the end, and what we have here is a fun Hollywood flick with a good head on its shoulders.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 18, 2011

Limitless is limited, but intriguing nonetheless.

| Original Score: B | Mar 18, 2011

Limitless may not be as brainy as it would like to think it is, but it's a relatively sharp and surprisingly playful head-trip, a satisfyingly novel twist on mindless entertainment.

| Mar 18, 2011

Limitless is frustrating, in part, because it could have been much better.

| Mar 18, 2011

Occasionally skirts greatness and is definitely worth your time. But it could have been much more.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 18, 2011

Starts off as an ambitious, gripping, quasi-sci-fi thriller and turns into an over-the-top mess. But it's never dull, and looking at Bradley Cooper is never bad.

| Mar 18, 2011