The Emoji Movie (2017)
“Who has the time to type out actual words?” Not everything about The Emoji Movie is horrible. The colors are crisp. The voicework, while uninspired, has been cast well. It’s pretty short. […]
Category Archives: Adventure
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
“It’s okay to be vulnerable sometimes.” It’s hard to describe Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets without imitating Bill Hader’s famous SNL character Stefon as he hyped up a New York night […]
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
“I did not start this war.” As overtly and obviously religious in tone as it is visually inspired by the Fall of the Roman Empire, War for the Planet of the […]
Okja (2017)
“If it’s cheap, they’ll eat it.” Okja takes place in the present day for a reason. Rather than push its lavishly hyperbolic take on an old Aesop Fable out into a […]
Despicable Me 3 (2017)
“Does no one value true art anymore?” Movies like Despicable Me 3 – alongside other recent animated films such as the insultingly stupid The Secret Life of Pets or the scattershot The Good Dinosaur […]
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
“I feel like I could be doing more.” As the sixth leading role in a film since the dawn of the new millenium – and the third reboot of the […]
47 Meters Down (2017)
“I don’t know about this.” I fear that too many of us take simple-minded and daring movies like 47 Meters Down for granted, especially because when they’re done well – as this […]
Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
“More alien rubbish.” It’s never a promising sign when I go through my scribbled notepad after a movie and find the followings lines: “I’m already lost,” “Literally can’t tell what […]
The Mummy (2017)
“This is not a tomb…it’s a prison.” In the screengrab below, the wholly unlikable douche Nick Morton (Tom Cruise) resigns to a death sentence and pulls the parachute on his […]
Wonder Woman (2017)
“I am not what you thought I was.” Wonder Woman seems to have been conceived through a simple yet radical notion for the film industry; what if you made a gigantic […]
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