If you had to describe "Zola" with a serious character limit, you could just say "Florida" and move on.
Read MoreThe story drives the characters instead of the other way around, with numerous contrivances and questionable motivations that create doubts about the narrative rather than complexity about the walls closing in.
Read MoreA lively, funny, likable movie that also serves as an unsettling metaphor for the selfish intentions of people who take no accountability and create destruction for those who engage with their tornado.
Read MoreLooks at real life in America and what it would take to bail out from destruction — and if legitimate fear could rise above the noise before it’s too late.
Read MoreIt feels like there’s more movie fighting to get in here, and “King Richard” refuses.
Read MoreThe ones that made the biggest impact on me in a volatile year for the world and a somewhat more traditional year for movies.
Read MoreA devastating portrait of the way things have always been done clashing with the urgency of reality, of a person against a system.
Read MoreIt’s like the National covering Coldplay, or a motivational speaker with her eyes closed.
Read MoreWords can only sell it so much; there's an odd feeling here that cuts right to a world that gets in the way of love in its purest form.
Read MoreIf you’re out on something that can be described as “Saved by the Bell: The Reboot: The Movie: The Nightmare,” that’s fine. It’s also your loss.
Read MoreShares its main character’s instability until it falls apart completely, failing to mix broad attempts at humor with startling violence.
Read MoreIt’s not called “Red Notice (Taylor’s Version),” all descriptive and emotional and important. There’s a place for that (on “Red [Taylor’s Version]”). This is not that place. “Red Notice” needs few words: Action good. Lines funny. Movie fun enough.
Read MoreLike trying to capitalize on name recognition and winding up at Four Seasons Total Landscaping, but much, much less funny.
Read MoreIt might be a stretch to call the film “The Player” for the Me Too era, but you could make a case.
Read MoreShould win an award for crushing its casting process.
Read MoreA striking commentary on sexuality and oppression for anyone who passes the low bar of enlightenment required not to reject the fantastic “I Am Not a Woman, I’m a God” on title alone.
Read MoreLike “You” was loaded into a computer program that froze but forced us to watch the glitchy result anyway.
Read MoreThe same policy applies to “The Voyeurs” as to social media: Take it too seriously at your own risk, but don’t pretend there’s nothing there to see.
Read MoreWouldn’t feel so gruesomely indulgent if it felt like a story and not an outline.
Read More“Vacation Friends” is repetitive, exhausting, and sluggishly paced. I enjoyed it anyway.
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