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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
Rocketman
30 years of Elton John's ups and downs is middling material, but a few things catapult the product to fascinating - Taron Egerton's virtuoso performance, the soaring anthems, and one perfect scene.
Biography/Drama/Music - 121 Minutes
30 years of Elton John's ups and downs is middling material, but a few things catapult the product to fascinating - Taron Egerton's virtuoso performance, the soaring anthems, and one perfect scene.
Biography/Drama/Music - 121 Minutes
Booksmart
They are not out to shed their virginities; perhaps in a film first, these girls are wise enough to recognize sexual conquest and/or a file folder of miscellaneous bedroom experiences do not define their identities. This is why Booksmart rises above its genre peers and represent this year’s seniors very well.
Comedy - 102 Minutes
They are not out to shed their virginities; perhaps in a film first, these girls are wise enough to recognize sexual conquest and/or a file folder of miscellaneous bedroom experiences do not define their identities. This is why Booksmart rises above its genre peers and represent this year’s seniors very well.
Comedy - 102 Minutes
Meeting Gorbachev
While Americans derided him as the lead henchman of the Evil Empire, Gorbachev accomplished world changing feats - nuclear arms control, the promises of perestroika and glasnost, and had a large hand in the reunification of Germany. In history’s long arc, Gorbachev is going to win this period of Russian history; Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin will lose.
Documentary - 90 Minutes
While Americans derided him as the lead henchman of the Evil Empire, Gorbachev accomplished world changing feats - nuclear arms control, the promises of perestroika and glasnost, and had a large hand in the reunification of Germany. In history’s long arc, Gorbachev is going to win this period of Russian history; Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin will lose.
Documentary - 90 Minutes
Non-Fiction
The Parisian elite sip red wine and debate literature and the digital revolution in a rambling series of salon dialogues. If plot walked into the room, the characters would offer a polite head nod, and then criticize it behind its back.
Comedy/Drama/Romance - 108 Minutes
The Parisian elite sip red wine and debate literature and the digital revolution in a rambling series of salon dialogues. If plot walked into the room, the characters would offer a polite head nod, and then criticize it behind its back.
Comedy/Drama/Romance - 108 Minutes
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
Parabellum solidifies our addiction to John Wick. The quirky contemporary/medieval world expands to more exotic locales and offers new supporting characters to keep things fresh...along with dozens of DIY ways to kill bad guys.
Action/Crime/Thriller - 130 min
Parabellum solidifies our addiction to John Wick. The quirky contemporary/medieval world expands to more exotic locales and offers new supporting characters to keep things fresh...along with dozens of DIY ways to kill bad guys.
Action/Crime/Thriller - 130 min
All Is True
Kenneth Branagh explores what Shakespeare's retirement may have looked like - familial scandal, remorse for past mistakes, and attempts toward future happiness. Performances outshine a lackluster, melodramatic script - but check out Ian McKellen's few minutes on screen; he about walks away with the whole project.
Biography/Drama/History - 101 min
Kenneth Branagh explores what Shakespeare's retirement may have looked like - familial scandal, remorse for past mistakes, and attempts toward future happiness. Performances outshine a lackluster, melodramatic script - but check out Ian McKellen's few minutes on screen; he about walks away with the whole project.
Biography/Drama/History - 101 min
Wild Nights with Emily
Writer/director Madeleine Olnek is here to correct the record regarding Emily Dickinson through film. Emily was a vibrant person, full of passions and hopes - it was 19th century society and hypocritical, posthumous editors who decided to spin the narrative.
Comedy/History - 84 Minutes
Writer/director Madeleine Olnek is here to correct the record regarding Emily Dickinson through film. Emily was a vibrant person, full of passions and hopes - it was 19th century society and hypocritical, posthumous editors who decided to spin the narrative.
Comedy/History - 84 Minutes
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
There is nothing inherently mundane or repugnant about the creatures, so it must be the story. Pokémon Detective Pikachu’s part film noir, part buddy cop comedy is dull, shockingly routine, and ensures those of us unfamiliar with the realm walk away resolute we didn’t miss out on anything.
Animation/Action/Adventure - 104 Minutes
There is nothing inherently mundane or repugnant about the creatures, so it must be the story. Pokémon Detective Pikachu’s part film noir, part buddy cop comedy is dull, shockingly routine, and ensures those of us unfamiliar with the realm walk away resolute we didn’t miss out on anything.
Animation/Action/Adventure - 104 Minutes
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