20s movies
Movie Review: Honey Don’t!
4 stars out of 5 I liked Drive-Away Dolls a lot more than you did, and guess what, I liked Honey Don’t! more than you did too. In fact, I liked it even more! Hollywood historians will be able to identify the precise “tipping point” when Margaret Qualley became a national treasure: 1 minute, 13 […]
Movie Review: Caught Stealing
3 stars out of 5 I’ve seen Caught Stealing, once, when I was 55. Whoops I mean 56. Hi Darren Aronofsky. Big fan. Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, The Wrestler, Mother!: awesome. The Whale, Noah: pretty good. The Fountain was incomprehensible garbage but, hey, you tried. Caught Stealing is… average. Innocent likable guy gets […]
Movie Review: Weapons
4 stars out of 5 Three years ago, I was quite taken with Zach Cregger’s off-kilter horror flick Barbarian. This summer, Zach is back with Weapons, and he’s once again playing with the horror formula. He sets things up with a strong conceit: Julia Garner (who I last saw in Wolf Man) is a third-grade […]
Movie Review: The Naked Gun
4 stars out of 5The six episodes of Police Squad! that aired when I was 12-going-on-13 couldn’t have been a better bar mitzvah gift. Sure, I had loved the same filmmakers’ Airplane! when I was 11, but now I was a sophisticated tween (though the word hadn’t been coined yet). So, I understood more of […]
Movie Review: Eddington
3.5 stars out of 5Dear Ari Aster: I promise I’ll attend your next movie while remembering that it is written and directed by you, the same guy who made Hereditary, Midsommar, and Beau Is Afraid, all of which I liked. Hey, it’s partially your fault for putting your credit at the end, and for making […]
Movie Review: Jurassic World—Rebirth
4 stars out of 5 Hot take: Jurassic World is more entertaining than Superman. There, I said it. I chalk it up to filmmakers who really know what they’re doing. Director Gareth Edwards earned his sci-fi stripes with 2014’s Godzilla and Rogue One. And writer David Koepp not only did the screenplay for the original […]
Movie Review: Superman
3.5 stars out of 5If you’re looking for a really well-made, well-performed film, this is not so super. But if you are a 12-year-old boy, or in charge of some 12-year-olds on a humid or rainy day, you could do a lot worse than seeing Superman. I will say, this is a better movie than […]
Movie Review: 28 Years Later
4.5 stars out of 5 28 Days Later came out 23 years ago and all I remember is that it was scary and very good, and also that a couple of years earlier, Sandra Bullock had starred in a movie called 28 Days so that was kind of funny. When I recently learned that director […]
Movie Review: The Phoenician Scheme
4.5 stars out of 5I was so thrilled while watching this movie that only now, with a distance of a few days, do I realize that I didn’t totally get the ending, that maybe I passed out for a couple of key scenes in the last 20 minutes. But everything else was so much fun, […]
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