Dolittle (2020)
“Please make it stop.” Featuring a massive and wastefully ballooned budget, Dolittle isn’t destined to become a bona fide box office bomb because it’s the worst picture of the year, although it […]
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Paddington 2 (2018)
“If we look after this bear, I have a feeling he’ll go far.” In 2015’s Paddington, as well as in this year’s sumptuous, somehow even sweeter sequel, the titular little bear draped […]
Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016)
“How in the hell did I end up here again?” Once you look past the egregious typo in the title and the intermittent phoniness of Bridget Jones’s Diary (it literally pains […]
The Lady in the Van (2016)
“I am a sick woman.” This “mostly true story” is one that’s also mostly contrived and manipulative. My personal feelings towards The Lady in the Van are much maligned because, in the […]
Brooklyn (2015)
“Home is home.” The thing about Brooklyn that lingers with you most is its honesty. A story with simple sensibilities, straightforwardly told, classically made. It may be a fictitious picture, but you […]
Paddington (2015)
“You’ve literally just brought home a random bear.” I remember seeing the first official teaser trailer for Paddington and laughing out loud. Colin Firth, set to play the lead character, dropped out […]
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