Review: Studio comedy shines with unexpected intimacy
“Blockers” is a good movie. Yes. You read that right. The film that features butt chugging, sex pacts and vomit is nuanced and emotionally resonant.
“Blockers” is a good movie. Yes. You read that right. The film that features butt chugging, sex pacts and vomit is nuanced and emotionally resonant.
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“Ready Player One” plays out like the machination of a child; it’s silly, illogical and only enjoyable for the kid holding the toys.
Rather than embrace the whimsy or silliness that lend children’s films their charm, Stevenson depends on anachronistic pop culture references.
Instead of being a bold take on the masked-murderer-by-the-lake trope, “Prey at Night” is a hollow shoutout to better films.
“Celeste” is a stellar, stylish and soothing game that succeeds in telling a pertinent story without succumbing to unearned truisms and clichés.
“Everything Sucks” is often messy and illogical, just like its adolescent characters. It’s not a smart series, but it’s a sweet one.
Glee and excitement pervade in “Peter Rabbit” from the first frame to the finale, but between the moments of triumph are instances of darkness.
“Altered Carbon” tries to cram too much plot into too few episodes, trading stable storylines for pointless, plodding tangents.
Staff Writers Jake Leary and Colin Tessier discuss the many failures of Netflix’s “The Cloverfield Paradox” in this week’s episode of “Deja View.”
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Dabbling in several genres without committing to any of them, “The Cloverfield Paradox” feels incomplete, cobbled together and woefully unsatisfying.
“Den of Thieves” is too serious to be enjoyable and too outlandish to be taken seriously.