Blair Witch (2016)
“We faked it because it’s real.” If somebody was to ask me to describe Blair Witch, I’d say that it’s the type I normally liken to gridlock traffic. All stop […]
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Hell or High Water (2016)
“You got some spunk left in you.” The term dime novel is often used in a negative context to describe indulgent, hurried material. Hell or High Water looks that way on the […]
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 […]
Morgan (2016)
“Morgan is no longer viable.” How to describe Morgan? I could say any number of things. Flippantly shallow, hysterically self-serious, a distasteful mix of pea-brained and moronic ideas. And that’s just the […]
Sully (2016)
“You can accomplish anything if you’re never in a hurry.” I genuinely fear for the future of biopic cinema, especially when they’re now made so soon after the actual incident that […]
The Light Between Oceans (2016)
“We’re not doing anything wrong.” One of The Light Between Ocean’s most important shots lasts so briefly that you’d miss it if you blinked. Michael Fassbender, as dedicated and doggedly motivated as ever, […]
Don’t Think Twice (2016)
“The thing about an easy sell is that it has to be easy to sell.” I haven’t come across a comedy in 2016 that’s been better than Don’t Think Twice, for reasons […]
Southside with You (2016)
“The liberal-minded people will think it’s precious and the closed-minded people will think it’s pathetic.” The saying typically goes that behind every great man is a great woman. That’s not the […]
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
“If you must blink, do it now.” From the onset, Kubo and the Two Strings uses the above quote to command our immediate attention, and by the time it’s through we’re left […]
Don’t Breathe (2016)
“If we do this right, we never have to do it again.” We start at the end. Rocky (Jane Levy) is being dragged down a desolate Detroit street by her […]
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