Movie Review: Materialists
A couple years ago, I deleted all my dating apps. Once I learned that the top 10% “good looking” people (definitively NOT me) were getting …
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Movie Review: Megalopolis
Movie disasters come in all shapes and sizes. The worst disasters are soulless cash grabs like Madame Web, where all artistic expression is sucked out …
Movie Review: Daddio
A few years back, Tom Hardy did this movie, Locke, where he just sits in his car for an hour and a half, and answers …
Movie Review: A Quiet Place: Day One
And we’re back. It’s time to nut up or shut up, as Jesse Eisenberg once said facing his zombie clown fears. Lupita Nyong’o and Joseph …
Movie Review: Robot Dreams
Sometimes words get in the way of a great story. Robots and dogs don’t use a lot of words to communicate what they’re feeling to …
Movie Review: You Hurt My Feelings
Movie studios, sometimes you can hurt my feelings. Spending all that money on big special effects, humungous movie stars, and sales pitches is nice. But …
Movie Review: A Thousand And One
James Baldwin could have written something like this. A Thousand And One at its best plays like a beautiful poem, celebrating parents everywhere for all …
Movie Review: The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Noah Baumbach really knows how to write amazing family dynamics. His resume would make any writer jealous from Fantastic Mr. Fox to Frances Ha to …
Movie Review: Okja
Bong Joon Ho is in a war with Chan-wook Park for the title of best living director from Korea. Park stormed out of the gate …
Movie Review: The Secret Life of Pets
Toy Story for pets. That concept sounds potentially extraordinary. And The Secret Life of Pets is done by the Minions group, Illumination Entertainment, so they …