The Lovers (2017)
“This is great news.” Some people lie without batting an eye, because, well, they’re compulsive liars. Others do so as a means of protecting a person they care about, refusing […]
Category Archives: Comedy
Lady Bird (2017)
“I’m from the wrong side of the tracks.” More often than not in serious relationships (as well as the inevitable mistakes along the way), most of us experience the moment. The memory […]
The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
“My lamp’s gone out. I’ve run out of ideas.” With its egregiously overlong title, some rather clumsy direction, and a script seriously lacking in thematic consistency, The Man Who Invented Christmas has […]
Coco (2017)
“All of this work to bring the family together.” I’m not sure what to make of Coco. Its tedious and at times benign beginning is riddled with Chatty Cathy exposition right […]
The Top 50 Films of 2016
What a year for the movies. It seems like I’m always having to defend the integrity and the quality of what’s actually available out there to curious family members and […]
Daddy’s Home 2 (2017)
“We’re back, with more Daddies.” Not to sound all woe is me, but reviewing a film like Daddy’s Home 2 is hard. How do you unequivocally pan a movie that you know […]
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
“This is madness.” You’d be hard-pressed to ever watch a Marvel film that’s not about putting a stop to another bland worldwide catastrophe. Even then, it’s better than painfully sitting […]
A Bad Moms Christmas (2017)
“Christmas is an insane amount of work.” Just days after Halloween and still weeks before Thanksgiving, I’m able to finally single out the one movie that I can confidently call […]
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)
“I sense the work is more intimate than the space.” It’s taken more than a decade, but I’ve finally arrived at the conclusion that I’ll always appreciate the laser-like focus […]
Victoria & Abdul (2017)
“You must not look at her.” A Google search and a flip through a few pages concerning Queen Victoria led me to a discovery I otherwise wouldn’t have had the […]
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