The Holiday Calendar (2018)
“Each day a door opens and the toy inside matches something that happens.” As festive and jolly as it is flat and hollow, The Holiday Calendar is a seriously abysmal film destined […]
Category Archives: Romance
A Star Is Born (2018)
“It has a magical quality to it.” Romantic in that special way a potential lover can absolutely level you with their eyes. Comedic in the sense that all great tragedies […]
Life Itself (2018)
“Life brings you to your knees.” What are we to do when we experience a tragic, untimely, shattering loss of love? How do we fill the empty void, mend the […]
His Girl Friday (1940)
“I’m through with the newspaper business.” His Girl Friday is both an absolute sprint of a screwball comedy and a harsh rebuke of the misguided, manipulated integrity of journalistic behavior. It’s […]
Destination Wedding (2018)
“Anybody wanna trade seats?” A dark romantic comedy best suited for masochists, Destination Wedding celebrates the immense amount of pain that it imparts on the audience. It’s the furthest thing from romantic, […]
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
“That’s quite a mouthful.” Everything about The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society is, incontestably, sorely overlong. The title itself is an abomination. Can you imagine if this had played […]
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (2018)
“My letters are my most secret possessions.” To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before didn’t give me a very good first impression. The opening is rather stilted, feeling less like […]
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
“Pursuing one’s passion…how American.” Crazy Rich Asians breaks barriers. It’s compelling, it’s heartbreaking and is even hilarious in turns. But most importantly, it’s just a flat-out excellent film. This is […]
Set It Up (2018)
“We can get them to do anything.” What a radically brave notion it’s become for a romantic comedy to feature two insanely likable leads that those of us in the […]
Adrift (2018)
“Will you sail around the world with me?” Fueled by the altruistic fate of requited love and the oceanic odyssey demanded to navigate and survive Mother Nature’s harshest elements out […]
