Review: ‘Wonderstruck’ is anything but wonderful
Haynes and Selznick undoubtedly set out to tell a story about children for children, but nobody said it had to be bland.
Haynes and Selznick undoubtedly set out to tell a story about children for children, but nobody said it had to be bland.
It is a slasher set in a time loop, and director Christopher Landon seems to think that premise alone is enough to power the whole film.
But the absurdism undermines the film’s attempts at genuineness, and the more poignant moments don’t land.
Garth Davis excels in ways that shouldn’t look so easy: His world is appropriately naturalistic and his story smoothly balances its emotional heft.
In Jon Favreau’s “The Jungle Book,” Christopher Walken voices a giant orangutan.
Much of the album sizzles with a popping energy courtesy of Garratt’s piercing falsetto and an inclination toward a style that’s constantly changing.
“Zoolander 2” could have been clever. It could have been witty, with consistently funny jokes or a compelling story. But it has none of these things, and it is ultimately a movie that is just as offensively dumb and pointlessly inane as its main characters.
Though it champions a story structure that’s been used many times before, “The Finest Hours” is a rescue story buoyed by some terrific maritime action sequences and very good acting performances.