movie reviews
Movie Review: Spider-Man — Brand New Day
4 stars out of 5I hope Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Jon Bernthal all have points negotiated in their boilerplate contracts, because all three actors are in both of the summer’s billion-dollar bashes, The Odyssey and this latest Spidey flick. Which picks up with Peter Parker (Holland) navigating the difficult decision he made in No Way […]
Movie Review: I Want Your Sex
4 stars out of 5You ever go to see a friend play music at 2 p.m. except you misread the flyer and he went on at 12 p.m. so instead you went to the 2:45 movie? That was my Sunday. Otherwise this would probably be a Spider-man review. Still, I was happy to see I […]
Movie Review: The Odyssey
4 stars out of 5The Odyssey has raked in more than $700 million thus far. Of that, I have contributed $5. It was a very rainy Bargain Tuesday so I ducked into the theater to wait out the deluge. I know, I know, I was supposed to see this in IMAX, 70mm if possible, but […]
Movie Review: Jackass — Best and Last
3 stars out of 5I said basically everything I wanted to say about the Jackass franchise four years ago in my review of Jackass Forever. Since then, Johnny Knoxville has turned up as a host on the unsuccessful series Prank Panel and also the reboot Fear Factor: House of Fear, and starred in the streaming […]
Movie Review: Disclosure Day
4.5 stars out of 5 I love me some later-day Spielberg, but he hasn’t given us the “full Spielberg” in a long while. OK, even while I’m typing that, I’m thinking, “Wait, he wrote and directed the superb Fablemans just four years ago, and it’s basically autobiographical. How much more ‘full Spielberg’ do you want?” […]
Movie Review: Backrooms
3 stars out of 5 OK, here’s the deal. I was incredibly tired when I went to see Backrooms last week. As I sat down to write this review, I admitted to myself that I had dozed off sporadically in the second half of the movie, perhaps missing some key connections, so didn’t think I […]
Movie Review: Star Wars — The Mandalorian and Grogu
3.5 stars out of 5 I guess this is what passes for a Star Wars movie these days? Say what you want about George Lucas, but even at his worst it felt like the fate of the galaxy was at stake. Supposedly this flick was planned as a TV series but rejiggered for the big […]
Movie Review: Omaha
4 stars out of 5Walking out of the Clairidge theater, I turned to my pal the ticket clerk and said, “I really need to mix in an upbeat film now and then.” Omaha was my second consecutive real downer at the movies. Which is not to say I didn’t like it – quite the contrary. […]
Movie Review: The Stranger
5 stars out of 5When I was 17 years old, it seemed like everyone I knew owned the Standing on a Beach compilation by The Cure. There was a sticker on the outer packaging asserting that were absolutely no racist overtones whatsoever to the song “Killing an Arab.” And that’s true; the lyrics are simply […]
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