Netflix’s The Life List is a perfectly pleasant drama/comedy/romance. And that’s good in that it’s fine… it’s perfectly fine. But it’s bad in that it’s perfectly fine for just shy of two hours. That’s a solid thirty minutes longer than … Continue reading
The Gorge on Apple TV+ is a film of two distinct halves that will appeal to different camps. Me? I liked the unique first half a lot more than the second, more derivative half. The movie’s good though and perhaps … Continue reading
Besides having a title bordering on malfeacance to cinema nerds, La Dolce Villa actually turns out a pretty fair and pleasant film. It doesn’t blow me away though it was adding up to it in the first act. In the … Continue reading
Ke Huy Quan’s return to the big screen is a real gift, especially if you were alive in 1984 & 1985 for his kid double feature. So I hope it’s his choice to follow Everything Everywhere with a basic kung-fu … Continue reading
All We Imagine as Light is not the glimpse into transcendent humanity that its title suggested to me. Instead, it’s a dour, murky tale of how two nurses live their lives, find romance, and… just exist. Which is a positive … Continue reading
Babygirl is like 50 Shades of Grey and all those toxic Netflix knock-offs… only its complicated, mature, and adult in ways those lesser films are not. It feels like it was written by someone who understands adults and adult desires… … Continue reading
I sat on Touch for months… always in my “I’m gonna watch that some day” bucket… but I just didn’t pull the trigger. I think because I assumed it would focus more on the present timeline with the older characters … Continue reading
Someone Like You is bizarre. It doesn’t realize how unnaturally weird it is. It thinks it’s earnest and romantic when it’s actually creepy and gross. It seems to have been written by someone who doesn’t understand humans and directed by … Continue reading
All I knew about Anora was the unofficial logline “Pretty Woman only realistic”. I see there they’re coming from but man did this flick go weird places Pretty Woman never went. And I should have seen it sooner… I kept … Continue reading
It’s hardly fair to put Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield on screen together and expect the audience to not feel cross at the genetic misfortune that is the rest of us. Add in the fact they both get to use … Continue reading