Lady Bird (2017)
“I’m from the wrong side of the tracks.” More often than not in serious relationships (as well as the inevitable mistakes along the way), most of us experience the moment. The memory […]
Tag Archives: Comedy
The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
“My lamp’s gone out. I’ve run out of ideas.” With its egregiously overlong title, some rather clumsy direction, and a script seriously lacking in thematic consistency, The Man Who Invented Christmas has […]
Coco (2017)
“All of this work to bring the family together.” I’m not sure what to make of Coco. Its tedious and at times benign beginning is riddled with Chatty Cathy exposition right […]
Daddy’s Home 2 (2017)
“We’re back, with more Daddies.” Not to sound all woe is me, but reviewing a film like Daddy’s Home 2 is hard. How do you unequivocally pan a movie that you know […]
A Bad Moms Christmas (2017)
“Christmas is an insane amount of work.” Just days after Halloween and still weeks before Thanksgiving, I’m able to finally single out the one movie that I can confidently call […]
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)
“I sense the work is more intimate than the space.” It’s taken more than a decade, but I’ve finally arrived at the conclusion that I’ll always appreciate the laser-like focus […]
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 […]
American Made (2017)
“Just don’t get caught.” My guess is that probably 9/10 moviegoers will at least enjoy American Made to some extent. I don’t blame them either. After all, how could they not? It’s extremely […]
The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017)
“How hard is it to come up with a genius idea?” What sends The Lego Ninjago Movie off in the wrong direction tends to be its drive to duplicate some of the […]
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