movie reviews
Movie Review: Women Talking
3.5 stars out of 5Well, I can’t say the title didn’t give me a heads-up. There is a lot of talking. Do you know that play A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking? Like, multiply that. The more I read about the true story this is sort of based on, the more I wish this […]
Movie Review: M3GAN
3 stars out of 5Yes, I’m giving this E, uh I mean 3, stars. Like last year’s Barbarian, the filmmakers here are trying to do something a little different within the horror genre, and I appreciate that. Unfortunately, M3GAN’s filmmakers don’t try very hard. The result is pretty fun and certainly watchable, but ultimately forgettable. […]
My Highly Subjective List of the Best Movies of 2022
It’s getting to be a bit of a drag for those of who like going out to the movies to see quality releases. Forced by finances, art theaters are devoting a chunk of their screens to big dumb Hollywood dreck. And many movies lucky enough to get a big-screen debut are quickly shuttled off to […]
Movie Review: The Whale
3.5 stars out of 5The film we’ve all been waiting for: Master storyteller Guillermo del Toro presents Pinocchio from the POV of the whale. Wait, this one is Brendan “Mummy” Fraser in a fat suit? Jiminy Crickets! There was so much advance buzz about Fraser’s comeback performance (I think the last time I saw him […]
Movie Review: White Noise
4 stars out of 5Don DeLillo’s White Noise, from 1985, is considered one of the great satirical novels of modern literature. I finally got around to reading it 3 years ago. In summing up my thoughts in my Goodreads review, I said that while I didn’t think it was a masterpiece, I found the book […]
Movie Review: The Fabelmans
5 stars out of 5At some point in the near future I’ll likely dig into what’s real/what’s made up in this movie, but at the moment I honestly don’t care because I’ve just seen a basically perfect film and I want everybody to know! Based loosely on his own life, Steven Spielberg puts his all […]
Movie Review: The Menu
3 stars out of 5I’m loyal. I watch a lot of Seth Meyers, and one of his writers co-wrote The Menu. So I dutifully watched the trailer, which seemed darkly funny. Plus Anya Taylor-Joy-’sGot-Nuts-Mounds-Don’t was in it, and I’m a fan (despite not being impressed with Anya in her pre-Gambit gambit Thoroughbreds). All good enough […]
Movie Review: The Banshees of Inisherin
4.5 stars out of 5Despite enjoying their previous work together In Bruges, I didn’t rush out to see this film. From the trailer, it seemed a little “diddlydee” as my Irish friend Patrick says. And with two old pals — Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson — comedically feuding, the whole thing looked like it might […]
Movie Review: Decision to Leave
4 stars out of 5In the mid-aughts, I really meant to see Oldboy. Then in 2013, I missed Spike Lee’s remake of Oldboy. So, Decision to Leave is my first experience with the work of Korean writer/director Park Chan-wook. It took a while into this film but, I’m impressed. The first big chunk of the […]
Movie Review: Smile
4 stars out of 5Sosie Bacon was wonderfully messed up as the junkie birth mom in Mare of Easttown, and she radiated warmth as the caretaker of autistic young adults in As We See It. Here, in Smile, she gets to do both — though admittedly a lot more of the screwed up stuff. You’ve […]
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