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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
The Seagull
Theater veteran Michael Mayer adapts Chekov's world famous play for the screen employing cinematic techniques to loosen up the well-known material. No heroes, no villains - just human flaws and unrequited love.
Drama - 98 Minutes
Theater veteran Michael Mayer adapts Chekov's world famous play for the screen employing cinematic techniques to loosen up the well-known material. No heroes, no villains - just human flaws and unrequited love.
Drama - 98 Minutes
Deadpool 2
The blindsiding originality is gone now that we know what to expect, but the grotesque language, razor sharp pop culture spears, and character revolving door make Deadpool a deserving sequel. David Leitch brings his John Wick & Atomic Blonde action skills for an über-bloody blowout.
Action/Adventure/Comedy - 119 Minutes
The blindsiding originality is gone now that we know what to expect, but the grotesque language, razor sharp pop culture spears, and character revolving door make Deadpool a deserving sequel. David Leitch brings his John Wick & Atomic Blonde action skills for an über-bloody blowout.
Action/Adventure/Comedy - 119 Minutes
Measure of a Man
Adapted from the novel One Fat Summer and time-shifted from the ‘50s to the ‘70s, Measure of a Man joins the never-ending chorus of coming-of-age films and does nothing to separate itself from the pack. This summer in a rural hideaway needs less Deliverance and *gulp* more Dirty Dancing.
Comedy/Drama - 100 Minutes
Adapted from the novel One Fat Summer and time-shifted from the ‘50s to the ‘70s, Measure of a Man joins the never-ending chorus of coming-of-age films and does nothing to separate itself from the pack. This summer in a rural hideaway needs less Deliverance and *gulp* more Dirty Dancing.
Comedy/Drama - 100 Minutes
Born Guilty
The '80's sitcom vibe does the dirty work here; it's trying to cover up the ugly. There are no likable characters in this rom-com. Everyone is horrible, nobody is believable, and there is a guy who drinks his own piss.
Comedy/Drama/Romance - 101 Minutes
The '80's sitcom vibe does the dirty work here; it's trying to cover up the ugly. There are no likable characters in this rom-com. Everyone is horrible, nobody is believable, and there is a guy who drinks his own piss.
Comedy/Drama/Romance - 101 Minutes
RBG
Peek behind the curtain at past and present to learn how RBG taught nine old men there was such a thing as sex discrimination and how she continues to fight to level the playing field. A truly remarkable woman and Supreme Court justice - "That's a Ginsburn" as Kate McKinnon would say.
Documentary - 97 Minutes
Peek behind the curtain at past and present to learn how RBG taught nine old men there was such a thing as sex discrimination and how she continues to fight to level the playing field. A truly remarkable woman and Supreme Court justice - "That's a Ginsburn" as Kate McKinnon would say.
Documentary - 97 Minutes
Avengers: Infinity War
The real heroes of the stuffed to capacity Infinity War are Josh Brolin's villain, Thanos, and the Russo brothers. The Russos have Thanos tie a dozen competing threads into a narrative arc which is thematically coherent. A complex villain with faint hints of empathy will always win the day cinematically against the more one dimensional superheroes who outnumber him.
Action/Adventure/Fantasy - 149 Minutes
The real heroes of the stuffed to capacity Infinity War are Josh Brolin's villain, Thanos, and the Russo brothers. The Russos have Thanos tie a dozen competing threads into a narrative arc which is thematically coherent. A complex villain with faint hints of empathy will always win the day cinematically against the more one dimensional superheroes who outnumber him.
Action/Adventure/Fantasy - 149 Minutes
The Rider
A Chinese woman created a story about a cowboy from South Dakota and most of us city folk find ourselves relating to him. There is a universal message in The Rider about the struggle inside all of us to hold on to who we think we are - there will always be part documentary and part fiction in how we define that.
Drama - 104 Minutes
A Chinese woman created a story about a cowboy from South Dakota and most of us city folk find ourselves relating to him. There is a universal message in The Rider about the struggle inside all of us to hold on to who we think we are - there will always be part documentary and part fiction in how we define that.
Drama - 104 Minutes
The Endless
Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead wrote, shot, directed, and starred in their third feature film and create an absorbing atmosphere full of unease and fear of the unknown. Its unsettling vibe worms its way under your skin and there enough threads left over at the end, it will stay with you as your turn over pieces wondering if and how they connect to one another.
Horror/Sci-Fi/Thriller - 111 Minutes
Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead wrote, shot, directed, and starred in their third feature film and create an absorbing atmosphere full of unease and fear of the unknown. Its unsettling vibe worms its way under your skin and there enough threads left over at the end, it will stay with you as your turn over pieces wondering if and how they connect to one another.
Horror/Sci-Fi/Thriller - 111 Minutes
Now On DVD
Tomb Raider
Action/Adventure - 118 Minutes
Action/Adventure - 118 Minutes
