Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion (1997)
“We can go to the reunion and just pretend to be successful.” Just because Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion is a simple movie does not mean that it’s simple-minded. In […]
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Bumblebee (2018)
“People can be terrible about things they don’t understand.” 2007’s Transformers was good fun, a blockbuster in the purest meaning of the phrase, and a big-budget adventure that was far […]
The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)
“Women can be terrorists too.” Comedy is a hard genre to find any sort of uniform, easily tailored success within, and The Spy Who Dumped Me shows that a bloated belly […]
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 […]
The Girl on the Train (2016)
“We were the saddest people we knew.” The abundant stories in The Girl on the Train are the products of pretty people who get bored too easily. Their lives look well-manicured, but the […]
Zoolander 2 (2016)
“That’s not me anymore.” Anytime I watch a comedy, I simultaneously try to see the movie through the eyes of my younger self. Would little me like this? Would he […]
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