The Lovebirds (2020)
“It’s all kissy and huggy now but it all comes crashing down.” It makes so much sense that The Lovebirds – a clunky, occasionally charismatic and romantic crime comedy – found […]
Category Archives: Crime
Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey (2020)
“It was time for Gotham to meet the new Harley Quinn.” Ever the true New Yorker (or, in this comic inspired setting, the quintessential Gothamite), Harley Quinn (a dynamite Margot […]
The Gentlemen (2020)
“Business is business. It’s nothing personal.” The Gentlemen is my least favorite kind of movie to review, mostly because there’s almost nothing substantial or memorable enough to be worthy of […]
Bad Boys for Life (2020)
“Now it’s time to be good men.” There’s a nostalgic, practically immediate red & blue siren response that comes from hearing the Cops theme song and seeing a long dead […]
Uncut Gems (2019)
“Made a crazy risk – a gamble – and it’s about to pay off.” Few films from 2019 had a more meaningful or memorable opening sequence than the anxiety inducing […]
Richard Jewell (2019)
“People believe in the badge.” Richard Jewell is, on the surface, a worthy true life telling about a lowly and ill-regarded man desperate to help all those near him with […]
Knives Out (2019)
“I suspect foul play.” Inside this sprawling, mischievous, hilariously macabre murder mystery is a film that’s so unafraid to sprinkle in a few necessary dashes of the socioeconomic disparity prevalent […]
Black and Blue (2019)
“Either you’re one of us or you’re one of them.” Most movies of this type – seedy, procedural, B-movie movie crime dramas – tend to start strong and continue to […]
Joker (2019)
“For my whole life, I didn’t know if I really even existed.” Joker descends on clown for hire Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) painting his face in a lit makeup mirror. […]
Hustlers (2019)
“We can’t dance forever.” With exceptions few and far between, the American Dream’s heyday hopes of a life lived in suburbia with a white-picket fence have radically changed this side […]
