Straw's Rotten Tomatoes score could fool a lot of people into thinking it is just another mediocre Tyler Perry movie, but this is far from the case.Despite all the flack it has received, I found ...

Movies; Movie Reviews; Straw Dogs: Film Review. James Marsden, Kate Bosworth and Alexander Skarsgard star in director Rod Lurie's redo of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 original. By Todd McCarthy.

Writer-director Rod Lurie’s bird-brained remake of “Straw Dogs” doesn’t work on its own terms, and it can’t hold a candle to the unruly, unstable merits of Sam Peckinpah’s 1971 ...

REVIEW: Straw Dogs So, what do the critics think of the redo? For the most part, the reviews say to stick with the original, pointing out that Lurie’s take brings nothing new to the table.

With a more suitable male lead and stronger subtext, Rod Lurie’s remake of Straw Dogs could have been much more. The movie isn’t completely without merit, as it’s competently shot, w ...

Movie Review: Straw Dogs. Published: Jan. 26, 2012, 2:18 a.m. Washed up high school football stars in small towns can often become villains. Straw Dogs shows us the worst.

For decades, dramatists and filmmakers have followed playwright Anton Chekhov’s rule that a gun placed above a mantel at the beginning of a story must be used in the end. “Straw Dogs” ups ...

Audiences for this incendiary button-pusher will mostly divide along two lines: those who think writer-director Rod Lurie (The Contender, Nothing but the Truth) has a hubris overload remaking Sam ...

James Marsden stars in 'Straw Dogs,' a Shreveport-shot remake of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 thriller. Good, I thought. That's the proper reaction for a movie like this -- both to Peckinpah's original ...