10s movies
Movie Review: Brad’s Status
4 stars out of 5 I think writer/director Mike White and I would get on quite well. He seems smart, funny, warm-hearted, and I bet he thinks way too much. I’ve been familiar with his work since 2002’s Orange County, but I feel like he didn’t really hit his stride until the Enlightened series on […]
Movie Review: IT
4.5 stars out of 5 IT is scary as sh*t. IT’s also many other things: funny, sweet, sad, nostalgic, and very well-crafted. But if you’re someone who doesn’t like to be frightened, well, you’re really going to miss out on a good one. And this is coming from somebody who’s not really a Stephen King […]
Movie Review: Atomic Blonde
4 stars out of 5 ScarJo, why can’t you make this sort of action flick? Because Atomic Blonde is a real good time at the movies, is what this is. A “female James Bond” is the easy shorthand — Lorraine Broughton is an MI6 agent — but this movie is looser and more raw than […]
Movie Review: War for the Planet of the Apes
3.5 stars out of 5 Highly enjoyable summer flick. The best of the rebooted series. But I am simply not giving more than 3.5 stars to a talkin’ monkey movie, so there. Interestingly, for the second time in a row, the filmmakers stress the emotional side of things in what is ostensibly a sci-fi action […]
Movie Review: Spider-Man — Homecoming
3 stars out of 5 I think this is probably a mediocre movie, another diminishing return from the Marvel assembly line, and yet somehow I enjoyed it. The character was introduced in Captain America: Civil War? Why? Didn’t see it. And why is Iron Man in this? It reeks of lazy corporate cross-promotion and a […]
Movie Review: Wonder Woman
3.5 stars out of 5 I was 6 years old when Wonder Woman hit TV screens. I never thought, “Oh, how progressive of me, I’m watching a female superhero.” We just watched it. Everybody watched it. There weren’t that many channels. Life is seemingly more complicated now, second-guessed, over-analyzed. Were they–The Man–purposely not doing enough […]
Movie Review: Alien — Covenant
4 stars out of 5 I’ve had so much weird stuff come out of my abdomen in the past many months, it felt like I was starring in my own personal Alien sequel. But my interest in the actual series was re-sparked this winter when my friend Patrick rented Prometheus. It was much better than […]
Movie Review: Chuck
3.5 stars out of 5 No, there isn’t a big-screen version of the old NBC spy-comedy that I never watched. Here, the titular Chuck refers to the real-life Chuck Wepner who maybe inspired the fictional Rocky Balboa. As I’ve lived in Hoboken, Wepner has been in my consciousness for over two decades. My initial exposure […]
Movie Review: Obit.
4 stars out of 5 Some people call me the Grim Reaper. (Some call me the Gangster of Love.) And all because I have a habit of posting death notices of prominent people on Facebook. That’s the public me. But in private, I’ve long enjoyed reading obituaries, specifically in the New York Times. A longtime […]
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