Movie Review: The Accountant
Turns out Batman is John Nash, who knew? The Accountant is Ben Affleck’s attempt to stay busy in between Caped Crusadering. One the one hand, …
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Movie Review: Southside With You
Walking and talking meet cutes are no longer the sole domain of Richard Linklater. Southside With You is the story of the Obama’s meet cute. …
Movie Review: Barbershop: The Next Cut
I’ve always been fascinated by the attraction of a barbershop to the African American community, probably because there is no equivalent place like it in …
Movie Review: Allegiant – Part 1
Allegiant will get my worst word to describe it: indifference. The movie so screwed up its logic, mythology, and character development that anything that happens …
Movie Review: Chi-Raq
Spike Lee is NOT subtle. Ever since that one hot Brooklyn summer day, the man pulls no punches with his messages, and Chi-Raq is no exception. …
Movie Review: Insurgent
The biggest critics of Divergent, the prequel to Insurgent, accused the movie of being Hunger Games lite. I can’t disagree with them: most of Tris’s …
Movie Review: Jupiter Ascending
If halfway through making a film you realize the movie is kinda crappy, might as well make it as bonkers as possible right? Jupiter Ascending …
Movie Review: The Judge
Robert Downey Jr. Robert Duvall. Vera Farmiga. Billy Bob Thornton. Vincent D’Onofrio. The Judge sounds pretty can’t miss with that cast right? While being passably …
Movie Review: Happy Christmas
Anna Kendrick exudes adorable. Happy Christmas allows Kendrick to take her persona and twist it into a basket case recovering from a breakup. Joe Swanberg …
Movie Review: Life Itself
There is no way I can write objectively about Roger Ebert. As a slightly larger bespectacled cinephile Chicagoan, I tended to resonate with the man …