Uncle Frank (2020)
“You gonna be the person you decide to be, or are you gonna be the person everyone else tells you you are?” He sits in the corner reading and thinking. […]
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Bombshell (2019)
“News is like a ship. You take your hands off the wheel and it pulls hard to the left.” Bombshell is a precise film. The blocking has been staunchly rehearsed, […]
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
“The nervous system extends through the body.” Faith, futility, and fatalism all converge in the wanton Western that is The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the latest masterwork from the Coen Brothers […]
Life of the Party (2018)
“This is not helping our process.” About 15 minutes too long, full of a few characters/scenes which truly don’t matter, and too inconsistent with its laughs – a symptom that […]
Get Out (2017)
“Black is in fashion.” After a shower and a neck-nicking shave while Childish Gambino’s “Redbone” plays in the background, Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) welcomes his girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) into his […]
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016)
“Who are these girls?” Yeah, the title Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates is up there with the worst of ’em. And yeah, it’s a pretty poorly crafted movie. Although, there is […]
Hello, My Name is Doris (2016)
“We’ve all got fears.” There’s been a positive trend going on in movies lately, allowing stories to revolve around grown women actually living and behaving like grown women, and the […]
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