Viola, Denzel, August Wilson. Sometimes a film's pedigree is so strong there is no way to fail.
All tagged 2016
Review: Nocturnal Animals
Like a pig in the mud, it starts low, and blissfully revels in its emptiness. Not nearly as self aware as it wants you to think, the movie magic is sparse as Ford reaches for story-within-a-story and fails on both levels.
Oscar Roundup: The State Of The Race
Who's up? Who's down? Who's in? Who's Out? It's too early to know for sure, but we can certainly have fun guessing!
Review: Morgan
Nothing about this is particularly smart, and yet there it is--defiantly offering scene after scene of indefensible nonsense. Its fatal flaw is that it is perfectly comfortable with how little it is saying.
Review: Jason Bourne
This is the Finding Dory of action movies--I can't remember why we wanted this, our main character can't remember anything and I hope we are finally done here.
Review: Nerve
Picture Truth or Dare meets Pokémon Go meets Facebook Live. Now, add in a healthy dose of teenage angst and unpredictability and you will have a sense of the game at the center of Nerve. As the stakes increase, the story hums like the neon Tron: Legacy-inspired lights that fill the frame.
Review: Lights Out
What even is this?
Review: The Secret Life of Pets
Very little lies beneath the surface here, which is a shame because there was definite potential for more.
Review: The Conjuring 2
Beautifully shot, beautifully rendered and fully imagined, it earns its 134-minute runtime by filling the experience with unnerving terror.
Review: Popstar: Never Stop Stopping
Popstar is a refreshingly self-aware, timely and thoughtful mockumentary with a clear point of view. It is also just funny, which makes it hard not to enjoy.
Review: Presenting Princess Shaw
The movie doesn't blaze any new trails from a filmmaking standpoint, and its story is fairly simplistic, but there is something so wholesome about it that I can't help but be happy it exists.
Review: The Lobster
Is it reasonable to base a relationship on trivial commonalities like nosebleeds and limps? If not, is it really any less legitimate than the things you think love should be based on?