First Man (2018)
“We need to fail down here so we don’t fail up there.” You don’t fall in love with a picture like First Man. It’s a cold, hostile, largely introspective endeavor, the […]
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018)
“Who would lock a book?” Packing humor that’ll sail right over the heads of very young children and sticking to a plot that’ll bore most grownups, Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween finds […]
The Wife (2018)
“Without this woman I am nothing.” A modest, above average film with a few exceptional performances, The Wife proves to be forgettable and only faintly rewarding. It has a natural look […]
Venom (2018)
“Any action is often better than no action.” While I can’t allow myself to admit that it’s so bad it’s good (mostly because I don’t believe in the phrase), Venom […]
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 […]
Night School (2018)
“The issue is you’re clinically dumb.” Night School doesn’t fail because it ever lacks for effort, but more so because it exerts that effort in all of the wrong places. […]
Pleasantville (1998)
“You want something that’ll put you right in the show.” It is by no mistake, and quite tellingly so, that Pleasantville – a film about the scales of human emotion and […]
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 […]
The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)
“This is no place for a kid.” Ghoulish, garish, and just goofy enough to get by, The House with a Clock in Its Walls doesn’t really appeal to any single broad audience. […]
A Simple Favor (2018)
“Most times when a woman vanishes, she has a reason.” A classier take on the old mismatched sitcom The Odd Couple with a mystery mindset, A Simple Favor tosses genre identification straight out […]
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