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Mile 22
The script is a mess, the plot is near indecipherable, and the editing may be some of the worst in recent memory; however, my pulse raced. I was tense. Mile 22 has no idea what it wants to be, but it may physically impact the audience enough for them to not notice.
Action/Thriller - 95 Minutes
The script is a mess, the plot is near indecipherable, and the editing may be some of the worst in recent memory; however, my pulse raced. I was tense. Mile 22 has no idea what it wants to be, but it may physically impact the audience enough for them to not notice.
Action/Thriller - 95 Minutes
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Modernizing Shakespeare is a worthy effort and in the right hands can reinvent how you see the play (Romeo + Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing), but the attempt can also fall on its face. There is promise in the idea of contemporary Hollywood as Athens, but the haphazard translation produces far too many “WTF”s to succeed as a coherent whole.
Comedy/Fantasy - 104 Minutes
Modernizing Shakespeare is a worthy effort and in the right hands can reinvent how you see the play (Romeo + Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing), but the attempt can also fall on its face. There is promise in the idea of contemporary Hollywood as Athens, but the haphazard translation produces far too many “WTF”s to succeed as a coherent whole.
Comedy/Fantasy - 104 Minutes
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Not so much a who's who of salacious Golden Age details, but a study of the pimp who outlived them all. Welcome the curtain opening and reminder there are not a sect of famous people better than you out there, they just have full-time publicists telling you they are.
Documentary - 98 Minutes
Not so much a who's who of salacious Golden Age details, but a study of the pimp who outlived them all. Welcome the curtain opening and reminder there are not a sect of famous people better than you out there, they just have full-time publicists telling you they are.
Documentary - 98 Minutes
The Meg
More SyFy than Spielberg, The Meg will quench the thirst of those seeking shallow shark vs. human mini-bites - but those seeking depth and actual meat to chew on will be left hungry.
Action/Horror/Sci-Fi - 113 Minutes
More SyFy than Spielberg, The Meg will quench the thirst of those seeking shallow shark vs. human mini-bites - but those seeking depth and actual meat to chew on will be left hungry.
Action/Horror/Sci-Fi - 113 Minutes
Christopher Robin
Another story set in the Hundred Acre Wood targets tear ducts through melancholy and regret. Disney advertises slapstick mayhem, but delivers a pack of neuroses, poor parenting, and innocence lost.
Animation/Adventure/Comedy - 104 Minutes
Another story set in the Hundred Acre Wood targets tear ducts through melancholy and regret. Disney advertises slapstick mayhem, but delivers a pack of neuroses, poor parenting, and innocence lost.
Animation/Adventure/Comedy - 104 Minutes
The Spy Who Dumped Me
Director and co-writer Susanna Fogel aims to resurrect the familiar plot frame of laughs through near-death experiences and fish out of water naiveté and succeeds in doing exactly that for the film’s first half before the tidal wave regrettably loses momentum and direction resulting in a disappointing muddle.
Action/Comedy - 116 min
Director and co-writer Susanna Fogel aims to resurrect the familiar plot frame of laughs through near-death experiences and fish out of water naiveté and succeeds in doing exactly that for the film’s first half before the tidal wave regrettably loses momentum and direction resulting in a disappointing muddle.
Action/Comedy - 116 min
Puzzle
Kelly Macdonald makes an already stellar script soar to charming, melancholic, and hopeful heights. Agnes is a character whose earnest solitude will earn your trust and sympathy in this coming of age story for a 40-something year-old woman.
Drama - 103 min
Kelly Macdonald makes an already stellar script soar to charming, melancholic, and hopeful heights. Agnes is a character whose earnest solitude will earn your trust and sympathy in this coming of age story for a 40-something year-old woman.
Drama - 103 min
Generation Wealth
Emitting a somewhat self-congratulatory feel, “I went through so many pictures,” Generation Wealth works when it unsettles us about the country’s moral decay, but staggers lost and aloof when Greenfield puts herself and her family in front of the camera – something she does far too often.
Documentary - 106 Minutes
Emitting a somewhat self-congratulatory feel, “I went through so many pictures,” Generation Wealth works when it unsettles us about the country’s moral decay, but staggers lost and aloof when Greenfield puts herself and her family in front of the camera – something she does far too often.
Documentary - 106 Minutes
Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings
If a decent script ever took his circumstances seriously, it would propel the Detective and the series to a hint of cinematic respect. Instead, Detective Dee must suffer through B-movie CGI, nebulous villains from this year’s political enemy, and a cabinet full of stock character stereotypes.
Action - 132 Minutes
If a decent script ever took his circumstances seriously, it would propel the Detective and the series to a hint of cinematic respect. Instead, Detective Dee must suffer through B-movie CGI, nebulous villains from this year’s political enemy, and a cabinet full of stock character stereotypes.
Action - 132 Minutes
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
As paint by numbers as its five big brothers, yet the Ethan Hunt character continues to evolve and leave us impressed by running full sprint into impossible situations, but always in an exotic locale. If he really wants to test the character's strength, have him run around downtown Newark and see if the result is still as riveting.
Action/Adventure/Thriller - 147 Minutes
As paint by numbers as its five big brothers, yet the Ethan Hunt character continues to evolve and leave us impressed by running full sprint into impossible situations, but always in an exotic locale. If he really wants to test the character's strength, have him run around downtown Newark and see if the result is still as riveting.
Action/Adventure/Thriller - 147 Minutes
The Equalizer 2
A gifted assassin solving hyper-local problems is engaging at times, but the story arc sags due to a meandering script aching for one more edit.
Action/Crime/Thriller - 121 Minutes
A gifted assassin solving hyper-local problems is engaging at times, but the story arc sags due to a meandering script aching for one more edit.
Action/Crime/Thriller - 121 Minutes
Eighth Grade
I have a full time job, a soul-crushing commute in Washington D.C. traffic, a wife, a five year-old, and one of the meanest cats on Earth. Elsie Fisher's character, 13 year-old Kayla, leads a life exponentially harder than mine with .01% of the responsibility. She is also the most credible and relatable characters to grab our attention in a long time.
Comedy - 94 Minutes
I have a full time job, a soul-crushing commute in Washington D.C. traffic, a wife, a five year-old, and one of the meanest cats on Earth. Elsie Fisher's character, 13 year-old Kayla, leads a life exponentially harder than mine with .01% of the responsibility. She is also the most credible and relatable characters to grab our attention in a long time.
Comedy - 94 Minutes
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
I am as shocked as you are - I kinda/sorta enjoyed the hell out of this ridiculous, nonsensical, contrived film. Of course it’s not the story, that is naturally garbage. It’s the songs! Abba songs are so damn catchy you can’t help but chuckle at how the script forces itself to match up with the lyrics. Couldn’t escape if I wanted to, finally found my Waterloo.
Comedy/Musical - 114 Minutes
I am as shocked as you are - I kinda/sorta enjoyed the hell out of this ridiculous, nonsensical, contrived film. Of course it’s not the story, that is naturally garbage. It’s the songs! Abba songs are so damn catchy you can’t help but chuckle at how the script forces itself to match up with the lyrics. Couldn’t escape if I wanted to, finally found my Waterloo.
Comedy/Musical - 114 Minutes
Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti
Nobody appreciated or apparently even liked Gauguin while he was alive. If Voyage to Tahiti is your first encounter with the man, you won’t appreciate him posthumously either. Art historians and film directors who want to craft stories about famous artists may do well to consider the art may be better served if we know less about their creators.
Biography/Drama/Romance - 102 Minutes
Nobody appreciated or apparently even liked Gauguin while he was alive. If Voyage to Tahiti is your first encounter with the man, you won’t appreciate him posthumously either. Art historians and film directors who want to craft stories about famous artists may do well to consider the art may be better served if we know less about their creators.
Biography/Drama/Romance - 102 Minutes
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Circling back to lessons already learned in earlier iterations, now the famous Van Helsing must learn that deep down, monsters and humans are all the same. The third one of these is also all of the same, but you'll still laugh.
Animation/Comedy/Family - 97 Minutes
Circling back to lessons already learned in earlier iterations, now the famous Van Helsing must learn that deep down, monsters and humans are all the same. The third one of these is also all of the same, but you'll still laugh.
Animation/Comedy/Family - 97 Minutes
The King
The King is far more than the history of Elvis - “He was born, he did things, he died.” It’s none of that. It’s a straight-up shock to the system. Elvis was America. He could have been the greatest, but his decisions resulted in decline and a sickly end - but a whole bunch of people still love him anyways.
Documentary - 107 Minutes
The King is far more than the history of Elvis - “He was born, he did things, he died.” It’s none of that. It’s a straight-up shock to the system. Elvis was America. He could have been the greatest, but his decisions resulted in decline and a sickly end - but a whole bunch of people still love him anyways.
Documentary - 107 Minutes
Sorry to Bother You
Will wake you up in a smelling salt sort of way. Boots Riley has a lot to say about the corporatization of our world, the punishment inflicted upon the worker, and the future of workplace efficiency. Give Sorry to Bother You the opportunity to blow your mind.
Comedy/Fantasy/Sci-Fi - 105 Minutes
Will wake you up in a smelling salt sort of way. Boots Riley has a lot to say about the corporatization of our world, the punishment inflicted upon the worker, and the future of workplace efficiency. Give Sorry to Bother You the opportunity to blow your mind.
Comedy/Fantasy/Sci-Fi - 105 Minutes
Now On DVD
Tomb Raider
Action/Adventure - 118 Minutes
Action/Adventure - 118 Minutes
