The Pickup (2025)
“Try not to die.” A buddy action comedy that’s never as funny or original as those we remember from the 80’s, The Pickup fails to shift into anything other than […]
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The Idea of You (2024)
“I don’t care what they have to say.” I’m not sure any single person knows how to properly explain it, but if you’re lucky enough when it comes to real […]
Shotgun Wedding (2023)
“I wanna be romantic but not too corny.” As predictable as it is forgettable, Shotgun Wedding is a new and heavily formulaic streaming option that never knows what it wants to […]
Don’t Make Me Go (2022)
“You’re not gonna like the way this story ends. But I think you’re gonna like this story.” Don’t Make Me Go is an honest movie from the onset, telling us […]
I Want You Back (2022)
“I kind of can’t believe it worked.” It’s damn near impossible to make a timeless romantic comedy these days. The genre has almost been entirely relegated to the wastelands of […]
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020)
“Can’t tell a fool nothin’.” Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom gives us so much to reconcile, to consider, to wrestle with. The co-leading duo of quite literal masterful performances both sport […]
One Night in Miami (2020)
“I think this would be a wonderful chance to reflect on what happened tonight.” Over the course of the captivating and expertly calculated One Night in Miami, four cultural titans […]
Sound of Metal (2020)
“The hearing that you have lost is not coming back.” Guitar static lingers and anticipation awaits in the opening sequence of Sound of Metal, quite possibly the best and most […]
Sylvie’s Love (2020)
“You’re not ordinary to me.” Sylvie’s Love feels like the kind of rare, finely aged, backroom bottle you’d have to ask a sommelier to bring to the table instead of […]
Uncle Frank (2020)
“You gonna be the person you decide to be, or are you gonna be the person everyone else tells you you are?” He sits in the corner reading and thinking. […]
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