The “Liberal Arts” vibes are considerable. I liked “I Used to Go Here” anyway, which I’m sure says as much about me as it does about the movie.
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Few points for originality, but a lot for execution.
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The phoniness of “Palm Springs” feels like painting a patio blue and calling it a pool, and then being dumb enough to jump in. I’m absolutely baffled by the love for this movie.
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A CGI dolphin humps the main character and then smacks her in the face with his penis. That should be all you need to know about “Desperados.”
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Reminiscent of everything and better than nothing, “Artemis Fowl” is like a writer was asked to create “Jupiter Ascending” for kids but make the main character Batman’s nephew or Harry Potter’s cousin or something and watch five minutes of “Lord of the Rings” and “Mission: Impossible III” while you’re typing and please have the script on my desk in like an hour, K?
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Challenges both viewers and its characters to feel, think and listen at the same time, something that’s easier said than done in reality and a rarity on screen.
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Quotable this is not, unless you plan to drop “Let’s go sex nuts” into conversation.
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From a political perspective, this is outdated and shallow. From a “Should I stream this while in quarantine?” perspective, it’s an empty vessel. Calling it snail-paced would be insulting to snails.
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Appealing exclusively to people who play board games for the enjoyment of setting up the pieces, “A Kind of Murder” is less cat-and-mouse than cat-and-mirror. The movie just sits there, proud to look pretty, not really doing anything.
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A laugh riot if your favorite word is “pubes,” “The Wrong Missy” at last bullies the endless charms of “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” into the toilet water of the horrifying Sandra Bullock vehicle “All About Steve.”
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Married, single or somewhere in between, anyone would struggle to find a more startling, complex, funny, heartbreaking deconstruction of couplehood as the elaborate blending of two lives, and the dynamics that maintain or sever.
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The best crop in years!
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As underwhelming as its predecessor was impressive.
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How devastating for a movie that is meant to be topical to feel like it has been on the shelf for a while.
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Most Nicholas Sparks movies are insufferable as is. Now imagine if one was narrated by a dog.
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A more daring movie might have strived to really rock the foundation of this central relationship and see what shakes loose as a result.
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Feels exhausting before the body count even begins.
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A whirlwind of adult conversation and financial frustration, all very much existing amid the racial politics of a nation in which Donald Trump is the president and a professional sports organization in which most of the players are black and nearly none of the owners are.
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A few scorchers top a somewhat underwhelming year.
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All “what” and no “how” or “why,” “Vice” is the most disappointing movie in I don’t know how long. Man, I cannot believe how bad it is.
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