All the Money in the World (2017)
“No one is above money.” At a bit of a bloated 2 hours and 12 minutes long, All the Money in the World is reminiscent of a grueling restaurant wait with an […]
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The Greatest Showman (2017)
“You need something alive.” Gaudy, gregarious, and indiscriminately empowering, The Greatest Showman is like a vivid dream that you watch with eyes wide open. Technically speaking, that’s not always a good thing […]
The Disaster Artist (2017)
“Just because you want it doesn’t mean it’s gonna happen.” The Disaster Artist frustrated me, but not in the negative ways that you might expect. As a kinda-sorta autobiographical film recreating […]
Maudie (2017)
“Some people don’t like it if you’re different.” What makes Maudie special despite its frequent flaws has to be its willing attempt to paint its small pig pen of characters with such […]
Stronger (2017)
“They’re trying to make a hero out of me.” Not all superhero movies require capes and masks and incalculable powers. As evidenced in the remarkably intimate film Stronger, sometimes they can […]
Thank You For Your Service (2017)
“I’m not leaving again. I’m home for good.” Movies like Thank You For Your Service are hard to get right. We’ve seen the emotional after effects of war in truly great films […]
Only the Brave (2017)
“It was one of the most beautiful and terrible things I’ve ever seen.” A standard war film will typically include the same elements: blood, bullets, bodies, a clear victor. Granted, Only […]
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)
“Nobody will ever publish this.” For as much as I anticipated this true story of a film, I knew within the first minute that I needed to check this Oscar-baited […]
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 […]
Battle of the Sexes (2017)
“The men are simply more exciting to watch.” Even some 40+ years after the infamous tennis match between a sprite Billie Jean King and an aged Bobby Riggs, so many […]
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