★½ Have you ever wanted to watch The LEGO Movie, except less interesting, less exciting, less funny, and less fun? How about a dull movie that pretends to be the same kind of exploitative toy commercial that satirizes modernism and conformity, and cannibalizes LEGO in everything from the use of Will Ferrell to the insurgent […]
★★★ If the entire world was destroyed in 1945, at least the commies would go with it. Oppenheimer will not decisively answer the universal questions you bring with you to the big screen. To the extent I can extrapolate an answer from Christopher Nolan himself based upon the story of the film, I suspect that […]
★★ In his elder years, Steven Spielberg, my favorite filmmaker, has outsourced his creative instincts to an inferior. Now that inferior has both politicized and trivialized his own life story, and Spielberg can only play to its hits like a copycat. The Fabelmans is perhaps the least affecting film Spielberg has ever made. So disjointed […]
★★½ Both the good and the bad of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One can be summed up by a sequence early on that told me more about the film than anything else on its own did. A group of government heads are having an intelligence meeting about the central threat – a rogue […]
Creed III is not a Rocky or a Creed movie. It’s a boxing movie that, not unlike Rocky V, disgraces both franchises and star characters at the center. Oh, it’s a fine concept for its own boxing movie. Michael B. Jordan should have directed Jonathan Majors as his own star in his own film with […]
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