When Animal gives you a runtime of 3 hours 10 minutes, it means 3 hours 10 ten minutes. Don’t even bother getting up when the credits roll… the flick doesn’t have mid-credits scenes, it has mid-credit storylines. And then it … Continue reading
Eileen is a slow, ponderous film that can’t seem to nail down what it is… until it takes a sudden left turn and becomes very much a different thing. Whether it earns that head-scratcher of a turn, I’m not sure… … Continue reading
Frybread Face and Me is a quiet, gentle, thoughtful film about a Native American kid living in San Diego who is sent to live with his extended family on a reserveation in Arizona for the Summer. It’s not a melodramatic … Continue reading
May December is about a sleazy tabloid topic that’s too smart and too subtle to be about what it’s about. On the one hand, it’s quiet and introspective and then it delivers a soundtrack that suggests its 200% more melodramatic … Continue reading
Curse this fuzzy little movie, I swore to myself I wouldn’t fall for its manipulative charms. I didn’t know what form they would take, but after Paddington and The Boy, The Horse, The Fox, and the Mole exhibited a certain … Continue reading
I’m thrilled I didn’t have the slightest clue what this movie was going in. I just knew it had buzz. When it begins at Oxford with a golden boy and an average guy, I wondered if it was going to … Continue reading
I hesitated to watch Nyad. How interesting can they possibly make swimming a lot? Plus I skipped that recent Netflix free diving documentary proving my whole theory: I must not like water sports (ahem). But the pull of Jody Foster … Continue reading
Radical is a very familiar story told well. You’ve probably seen it before… a teacher from the outside arrives at a struggling school and helps the downtrodden, uninspired kids. This concerns the old guard, the corrupt, and the parents but … Continue reading
Priscilla, as a movie about the woman and not The King, not only has a noticeable dearth of Elvis songs but also assumes you know an awful lot about the guy coming in. Perhaps too much…. I can imagine someone … Continue reading
Pain Hustlers stars Emily Blunt and Chris Evans as a pair of prescription drug pain med peddlers. It shows how maybe some good intentions almost got in the way of all that money. Only in America, amiright? I watched this … Continue reading