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Good Boys
What used to be elder teenagers like Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall, then Michael Cera and Jonah Hill, are now real 12 year-olds. There are times I cannot believe how the filmmakers and the kids' parents had to explain to them exactly what was so funny about the sex toy they were holding or what that CPR doll was really for.
Adventure/Comedy - 89 Minutes
What used to be elder teenagers like Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall, then Michael Cera and Jonah Hill, are now real 12 year-olds. There are times I cannot believe how the filmmakers and the kids' parents had to explain to them exactly what was so funny about the sex toy they were holding or what that CPR doll was really for.
Adventure/Comedy - 89 Minutes
The Peanut Butter Falcon
Shia LaBeouf and Zak Gottsagen Huck Finn their way on a raft down the Outer Banks in humidity so thick you can see it toward a man named Salt Water Redneck. The film's atmosphere and sharp sense of place outweigh its simple story of redemption on the road.
Adventure - 93 Minutes
Shia LaBeouf and Zak Gottsagen Huck Finn their way on a raft down the Outer Banks in humidity so thick you can see it toward a man named Salt Water Redneck. The film's atmosphere and sharp sense of place outweigh its simple story of redemption on the road.
Adventure - 93 Minutes
Blinded by the Light
Springsteen’s words are universal. Director Gurinder Chadha, known for feel-good stories where minority teenagers chase dreams reserved for other ethnicities and social classes, creates a coming-of-age story anybody can identify with and celebrates the power of music to motivate and push one to reach for things long thought unattainable.
Comedy/Drama/Music - 117 Minutes
Springsteen’s words are universal. Director Gurinder Chadha, known for feel-good stories where minority teenagers chase dreams reserved for other ethnicities and social classes, creates a coming-of-age story anybody can identify with and celebrates the power of music to motivate and push one to reach for things long thought unattainable.
Comedy/Drama/Music - 117 Minutes
Dora and the Lost City of Gold
There is no keeping up with the original TV audience, 16 year-olds are not going to see Dora on a Friday night, but for the young ones, Dora is packed with fart jokes, unrelenting pep, a song about pooping, and dire warnings of how awful high school will be. Six year-olds are going to love it.
Adventure/Family - 102 Minutes
There is no keeping up with the original TV audience, 16 year-olds are not going to see Dora on a Friday night, but for the young ones, Dora is packed with fart jokes, unrelenting pep, a song about pooping, and dire warnings of how awful high school will be. Six year-olds are going to love it.
Adventure/Family - 102 Minutes
The Kitchen
What has all the ingredients for a juicy, female-empowered crime drama, complete with an accomplished cast and superior production design, emerges as a God-awful mess of mish-mashed scenes, choppy pacing, and downright laughable attempts to shock and surprise.
Action/Crime/Drama - 102 min
What has all the ingredients for a juicy, female-empowered crime drama, complete with an accomplished cast and superior production design, emerges as a God-awful mess of mish-mashed scenes, choppy pacing, and downright laughable attempts to shock and surprise.
Action/Crime/Drama - 102 min
The Art of Racing in the Rain
The Art of Racing in the Rain fails not because it tries its hardest to turn on the waterworks, which it will for a large portion of the theater, but because its methods are so overt and land with all the subtlety of an anvil on top of someone’s head. No stranger to shaping narrative arcs to break audiences emotionally in two, director Simon Curtis adapts a runaway New York Times bestseller into a This Is Us episode.
Comedy/Drama - 109 min
The Art of Racing in the Rain fails not because it tries its hardest to turn on the waterworks, which it will for a large portion of the theater, but because its methods are so overt and land with all the subtlety of an anvil on top of someone’s head. No stranger to shaping narrative arcs to break audiences emotionally in two, director Simon Curtis adapts a runaway New York Times bestseller into a This Is Us episode.
Comedy/Drama - 109 min
Mike Wallace Is Here
Avi Belkin’s probing documentary, Mike Wallace is Here, searches for answers. Did Wallace transform investigative journalism and loft it to new heights? Or did this pitchman/low-grade actor peddle an early form of “gotcha” journalism - more show business than pure reporting?
Documentary/Biography - 90 Minutes
Avi Belkin’s probing documentary, Mike Wallace is Here, searches for answers. Did Wallace transform investigative journalism and loft it to new heights? Or did this pitchman/low-grade actor peddle an early form of “gotcha” journalism - more show business than pure reporting?
Documentary/Biography - 90 Minutes
Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood
This unembellished Los Angeles is smog-choked, garishly neon, and socially cleaved between the elite and their private drives and everyone else. In a way, it’s Tarantino’s Roma. 1969 Los Angeles may have been filthy, corrupt, and transitioning from an older age into the next, but it was Tarantino’s filth, corruption, and transition – there is beauty is them there scrap yards and blemished boulevards.
Comedy/Drama - 161 Minutes
This unembellished Los Angeles is smog-choked, garishly neon, and socially cleaved between the elite and their private drives and everyone else. In a way, it’s Tarantino’s Roma. 1969 Los Angeles may have been filthy, corrupt, and transitioning from an older age into the next, but it was Tarantino’s filth, corruption, and transition – there is beauty is them there scrap yards and blemished boulevards.
Comedy/Drama - 161 Minutes
The Lion King
If you knelt at the alter of the original, then you will champion it all over again 25 years later. If The Lion King was only another Disney installment for you, then the new one will be take it or leave it, unless you have a kid now who hasn’t seen it yet.
Animation/Adventure/Drama - 118 Minutes
If you knelt at the alter of the original, then you will champion it all over again 25 years later. If The Lion King was only another Disney installment for you, then the new one will be take it or leave it, unless you have a kid now who hasn’t seen it yet.
Animation/Adventure/Drama - 118 Minutes
Stuber
The Odd Couple is Nanjiani as the seeing eye Uber to Bautista's blurry-eyed cop. Stuber is even worse than that terrible logline sounds.
Action/Comedy - 93 Minutes
The Odd Couple is Nanjiani as the seeing eye Uber to Bautista's blurry-eyed cop. Stuber is even worse than that terrible logline sounds.
Action/Comedy - 93 Minutes
Spider-Man: Far From Home
Marvel makes a U-turn post Endgame and lightens the mood with a Euro Trip. This most fluffy of installments is skin deep and will make you chuckle more than anything else.
Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi - 129 Minutes
Marvel makes a U-turn post Endgame and lightens the mood with a Euro Trip. This most fluffy of installments is skin deep and will make you chuckle more than anything else.
Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi - 129 Minutes
Yesterday
A more than compelling idea about the meaning of music and its universality dog paddles with a vengeance while a romantic-comedy stone fastened to its foot does its best to drown it whole.
Comedy/Fantasy/Music - 116 Minutes
A more than compelling idea about the meaning of music and its universality dog paddles with a vengeance while a romantic-comedy stone fastened to its foot does its best to drown it whole.
Comedy/Fantasy/Music - 116 Minutes
2019 AFI DOCS Film Festival
Documentaries are not only good for your soul, they make you interesting at parties. Go see them.
Documentaries are not only good for your soul, they make you interesting at parties. Go see them.
The Dead Don't Die
This is deadpan writer/director Jim Jarmusch disguising deeper messages underneath layers of pop culture one-liners, puns, and a genre homage. Our world is changing, not for the better, and if we’re not careful, all the dead people are going to wake up and eat us.
Comedy/Fantasy/Horror - 105 Minutes
This is deadpan writer/director Jim Jarmusch disguising deeper messages underneath layers of pop culture one-liners, puns, and a genre homage. Our world is changing, not for the better, and if we’re not careful, all the dead people are going to wake up and eat us.
Comedy/Fantasy/Horror - 105 Minutes
Men in Black: International
Claims to refresh and expand the MiB universe, yet it sullies and cheapens the first film already maligned by sequels which tripped over their shoelaces instead of carrying the baton.
Action/Adventure/Comedy - 114 Minutes
Claims to refresh and expand the MiB universe, yet it sullies and cheapens the first film already maligned by sequels which tripped over their shoelaces instead of carrying the baton.
Action/Adventure/Comedy - 114 Minutes
Dark Phoenix
Jean Grey is supposed to be beyond powerful, a rival to Professor Xavier in pure cerebral output, but she never does anything worth watching. Dark Phoenix is not unique in its failure to thrill fans with Jean Grey’s theatrics, it is merely another attempt to do so - and like all the rest - you'll forget about it in a moment.
Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi - 113 Minutes
Jean Grey is supposed to be beyond powerful, a rival to Professor Xavier in pure cerebral output, but she never does anything worth watching. Dark Phoenix is not unique in its failure to thrill fans with Jean Grey’s theatrics, it is merely another attempt to do so - and like all the rest - you'll forget about it in a moment.
Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi - 113 Minutes
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