10s movies
Movie Review: Star Wars — The Last Jedi
4.5 stars out of 5 Among the downers related to my extended hospitalization and rehabilitation was that I didn’t get to see Rogue One in the theaters. Since age 8, I’d seen every Star Wars movie on the big screen, as the good Lord intended. I eventually rationalized to myself that Rogue One was a […]
Movie Review: Wonder Wheel
4 stars out of 5 Aryan wonderboy Justin Timberlake cast as “Mickey Rubin”? When will we Jews finally get a break in Hollywood? Still, JT does a fine job here, as does the entire ensemble in yet another very good film from the late-era Woody Allen. I like elder Wood Man, I really do — […]
Movie Review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2.5 stars out of 5 For quite a while in its nearly two-hour running time, I genuinely liked this movie despite some gaping flaws. It certainly has a lot going for it: compelling story (grieving mom rents billboards to shame police who didn’t solve her daughter’s murder), strong cast, scenic small-town setting. And it looked […]
Movie Review: Thor — Ragnarok
3.5 stars out of 5 As a kid, Thor wasn’t one of my guys, and I’ve never really been drawn to sword-and-sorcery junk. (I did see all the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies, and that’s quite enough to hold me, thanks very much.) So I have not seen any previous Thor movies. I’m […]
Movie Review: Lady Bird
4.5 stars out of 5 First of all, it’s kind of cool that in theaters right now, there are movies called LBJ and Lady Bird. Second of all, I have made no secret over the past years that I am a huge fan of Greta Gerwig. And now I’m so proud of her for crafting […]
Movie Review: The Killing of a Sacred Deer
4 stars out of 5 I knew nothing about this movie before seeing it, except that Colin Farrell was re-teamed with the creative team from The Lobster. And I loved The Lobster. So it was a Lyft to the Edgewater Multiplex on $8.50 Tuesday. (I prefer $7 Tuesday at the Hoboken Bow Tie Cinema, but […]
Movie Review: Murder on the Orient Express
3 stars out of 5 Mystery confessions: I never read an Agatha Christie novel, or watched a movie or TV adaptation. Same for Sherlock Holmes. Hell, I don’t think I’ve ever played Clue. Still, I’m kinda drawn to this stuff. And when I saw a trailer with Johnny Depp and a bunch of other famous […]
Movie Review: Suburbicon
4 stars out of 5 With the Brothers Coen seemingly preoccupied with their upcoming Netflix series The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, we may have to wait a while for a true Coen Bros. cinematic offering. Still, their last writing-only work, Bridge of Spies, was a more than worthwhile stopgap, and there was no reason to […]
Movie Review: Blade Runner 2049
4 stars out of 5 When I was young, I’m fairly certain I had a paperback of Blade Runner, inside of which I learned the book was originally titled Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Although, proving the fallacy of memory — which is a big theme in this film — in my mind I […]
Movie Review: Battle of the Sexes
3 stars out of 5 This is perhaps a 4-star movie for anyone too young to be aware of the Billie Jean King-Bobby Riggs match — especially girls and young women — or anyone who needs a refresher in equal rights now that we’re enduring Trump’s America. But judged simply as a film, I have […]
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