Now In Theaters
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
Ant-Man and the Wasp
A throwaway villain only meant to add suspense to a lackluster plot underwhelms the first Marvel film to put a super heroine in the title. The impressive laughs are not strong enough to save what is only a placeholder in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi - 118 Minutes
A throwaway villain only meant to add suspense to a lackluster plot underwhelms the first Marvel film to put a super heroine in the title. The impressive laughs are not strong enough to save what is only a placeholder in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi - 118 Minutes
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
The elements for an upper echelon, intense thriller are here; however, they are buried under contrived coincidence and one of the worst last half hours to a movie in recent memory.
Action/Crime/Drama - 122 Minutes
The elements for an upper echelon, intense thriller are here; however, they are buried under contrived coincidence and one of the worst last half hours to a movie in recent memory.
Action/Crime/Drama - 122 Minutes
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Jurassic Park 5? Jurassic World 2? What the hell ever happened to subtlety? The majesty of Jurassic Park descends into a common monster movie. Director J.A. Bayona plunges off the pedestal I held him on and delivers a thud of a disappointment.
Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi - 128 Minutes
Jurassic Park 5? Jurassic World 2? What the hell ever happened to subtlety? The majesty of Jurassic Park descends into a common monster movie. Director J.A. Bayona plunges off the pedestal I held him on and delivers a thud of a disappointment.
Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi - 128 Minutes
Eating Animals
"They calculate how close to death they can keep an animal without killing it." Eating Animals shocks and nauseates with its "things must change" message. But I understand if you want nothing to do with it. Ignorance is far more palatable.
Documentary - 94 Minutes
"They calculate how close to death they can keep an animal without killing it." Eating Animals shocks and nauseates with its "things must change" message. But I understand if you want nothing to do with it. Ignorance is far more palatable.
Documentary - 94 Minutes
2018 AFI DOCS Film Festival
92 Films, 22 Countries, Reese's Pieces for dinner, audiences in tears, audiences in laughter = Washington D.C.'s finest
92 Films, 22 Countries, Reese's Pieces for dinner, audiences in tears, audiences in laughter = Washington D.C.'s finest
Ocean's 8
Gary Ross decided it was time to let the girls take on the major heist genre. Instead of a fresh chance, they ride the coattails of the earlier Ocean trilogy and circle fashion and glamour; girls aren't allowed to steal from casinos yet.
Action/Comedy/Crime - 110 min
Gary Ross decided it was time to let the girls take on the major heist genre. Instead of a fresh chance, they ride the coattails of the earlier Ocean trilogy and circle fashion and glamour; girls aren't allowed to steal from casinos yet.
Action/Comedy/Crime - 110 min
American Animals
Bart Layton’s style of shifty editing and impressive directing raises the project up a few tiers. Everybody knows boys are capable of immense stupidity no matter race, creed, sexual orientation, or economic condition. It’s not the poor choices of bored, white boys which will engage the audience, it is the superior filmmaking.
Crime/Drama - 116 Minutes
Bart Layton’s style of shifty editing and impressive directing raises the project up a few tiers. Everybody knows boys are capable of immense stupidity no matter race, creed, sexual orientation, or economic condition. It’s not the poor choices of bored, white boys which will engage the audience, it is the superior filmmaking.
Crime/Drama - 116 Minutes
The Gospel According to André
The never ending fashion doc carousel circles back on itself to chronicle a man who appears in the background of most of them. Vogue scores another film, but rather than celebrity worship or photo shoots, André Leon Talley takes us from segregated North Carolina to the pinnacle of chic.
Documentary - 94 Minutes
The never ending fashion doc carousel circles back on itself to chronicle a man who appears in the background of most of them. Vogue scores another film, but rather than celebrity worship or photo shoots, André Leon Talley takes us from segregated North Carolina to the pinnacle of chic.
Documentary - 94 Minutes
Solo: A Star Wars Story
A truck load of whiz-bangs and an overload of fanboy homages to later films in the chronology, but Solo sticks to a lighter action/adventure atmosphere. Replacement director Ron Howard took George Lucas’s advice to heart, “Always remember, this is for 12 year-olds.”
Action/Adventure/Fantasy - 135 Minutes
A truck load of whiz-bangs and an overload of fanboy homages to later films in the chronology, but Solo sticks to a lighter action/adventure atmosphere. Replacement director Ron Howard took George Lucas’s advice to heart, “Always remember, this is for 12 year-olds.”
Action/Adventure/Fantasy - 135 Minutes
Show Dogs
It's not the talking dogs, it's the writing. One of the worst scripts in recent memory torpedos the 'can't miss' idea of making a canine Miss Congeniality.
Action/Adventure/Comedy - 92 Minutes
It's not the talking dogs, it's the writing. One of the worst scripts in recent memory torpedos the 'can't miss' idea of making a canine Miss Congeniality.
Action/Adventure/Comedy - 92 Minutes
Book Club
Feeling five years past its sell-by date, overly familiar themes served up for its chronologically advanced audience makes Book Club feel generic and paint-by-numbers episodic.
Comedy - 104 Minutes
Feeling five years past its sell-by date, overly familiar themes served up for its chronologically advanced audience makes Book Club feel generic and paint-by-numbers episodic.
Comedy - 104 Minutes
Now On DVD
Tomb Raider
Action/Adventure - 118 Minutes
Action/Adventure - 118 Minutes
