[Rating: Minor Rock Fist Down]Only in theaters Friday, February 11 Yawn. That was my first reaction when the credits rolled on Death on the Nile, the follow up to 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express, and yet another adaptation of Agatha Christie‘s great body of work. Unfortunately, the film is unable to breathe the same […]
The most provocative thing about this rote RBG biopic is the title.
Sorry to Bother You is a timely meditation on class, race, privilege, and the momentum of the masses.
In ‘Final Portrait’, Geoffrey Rush spends weeks getting the ideal job done, painting a dashing Armie Hammer in this otherwise underwhelming film.
Call Me By Your Name is a magnificent, magical bit of hypnosis, entranced by the dripping water of drying swim trunks or the meanings of lingering fingers on one’s lips, and you should see it.
Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer trade in the same kind of faux-clever one-upsmanship that Holmes and Watson do in ‘Sherlock Holmes,’ with similarly weak dialogue but barely a quarter of the charm.
In all, The Lone Ranger is a mixed bag, but it really just needs an edit and a decisive tone. Had it been 30 or 45 minutes shorter and more focused, it would have been a different film entirely.
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‘J. Edgar’ is a frustrating watch for sure, and its pace flags several times due to some heavy-handed narration that struggles with these historical themes, but the fact that it’s always fighting itself is kind of fascinating too.