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 […]
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Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
“This is madness.” You’d be hard-pressed to ever watch a Marvel film that’s not about putting a stop to another bland worldwide catastrophe. Even then, it’s better than painfully sitting […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Snowman (2017)
“I can’t keep covering for you.” In order to understand what it’s like to watch The Snowman, imagine yourself in the following circumstance. You’re an eager house hunter, blind-folded and walked to […]
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 […]
Geostorm (2017)
“You get us a car. I’ll get us a President.” Believe it or not, Geostorm actually starts with a bit of promise. Its preaches to us through an Al Gore inspired An Inconvenient […]
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 […]
Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017)
“That muscle just for show?” Brawl in Cell Block 99 has no business being as gruelingly long as it is – at times if comes across like a drawn-out and poor […]
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 […]
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