Candy Cane Lane (2023)
“Nobody reads the fine print.” Based on a real life tradition in El Segundo, California where the Christmas decorations are an actual competition, Candy Cane Lane attempts to borrow that reality […]
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Family Switch (2023)
“This family looks like it could use a little Christmas magic.” Despite its antics and its sheer volume, little about Family Switch rings out as a true holiday film, and […]
Field of Dreams (1989)
“Until I heard the voice, I’d never done a crazy thing in my whole life.” A pitch perfect opening montage introduces us to Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) as he briefly […]
Slumberland (2022)
“You’re just a figment of my imagination.” Full of inventive adventures, fueled by classic bedtime stories, and packing a fresh way of presenting the sleepy material in a new and […]
Hocus Pocus 2 (2022)
“Magic has a way of uniting things that ought to be together.” Familiar and sentimental, the long awaited Hocus Pocus 2 feels like a place revisited yet renovated for the already […]
Home Sweet Home Alone (2021)
“I’m not good at this.” More painful than a blow torch to the head, a can of paint to the skull, or a nail to the heel of the foot, […]
CODA (2021)
“Do you have something to say?” It’s not often that both the funniest and the most heartfelt pictures of the year coalesce as one, but I think that might end […]
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
“You can’t be great without putting in work.” Overlong, overblown, and emblematic of what can go wrong when a studio so obviously sees its big budget picture as a product […]
Yes Day (2021)
“I said yes to everything.” Yes Day should’ve be a fun movie and a fun time. It needed to be a cheap Chuck E. Cheese pizza party, a family centric […]
The Christmas Chronicles 2 (2020)
“Was it as good as last time?” Everything that mildly worked with 2018’s The Christmas Chronicles – the joy, the vast wonder, the childlike sense of belief – has been sucked […]
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