movie reviews
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 […]
Movie Review: The Drama
3.5 stars out of 5 Dear Hollywood: I demand bigger roles for Alana Haim. She was so good in Licorice Pizza! But then in One Battle After Another, Alana didn’t have much more than a cameo, and in The Mastermind she just stood around looking disappointed. I know, I know, acting is a secondary career […]
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