Sylvie’s Love (2020)
“You’re not ordinary to me.” Sylvie’s Love feels like the kind of rare, finely aged, backroom bottle you’d have to ask a sommelier to bring to the table instead of […]
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Men in Black: International (2019)
“I’ve been in this situation before.” As a big budget Summer tent-pole movie lacking charisma or the necessary tools to rig or to maintain a proper pitch, Men in Black: […]
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
“”I know I said no more surprises, but I was really hoping to pull off one last one.” To say that I’ve never seen another film quite like Avengers: Endgame would […]
Creed II (2018)
“It’s just another fight.” Best described as the repetitive, unoriginal, blood sport birth child of 2015’s Creed and 1985’s Rocky IV, Creed II forever fuses two separate franchises together into one combative entity, like a dying […]
Sorry to Bother You (2018)
“What have I done that really matters?” Sorry to Bother You calls homes to an intrusive, imaginary world that’s a lot like a fish bowl prison; this might look like its […]
Annihilation (2018)
“It’s not easy to move on.” Sometimes you just have to let the dust of things settle. To resonate, to form scar tissue, to further rationalize with the wisdom and […]
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 […]
Creed (2015)
“I’m afraid of taking on the name and losing.” There is little doubt in my mind that people will flock to theaters thinking that they’re going to watch a new […]
Selma (2014)
“Fear not. We’ve come too far to turn back now.” Everyone is afraid of change to a certain degree. Unwilling to switch up your standard order at a restaurant, reluctant […]
Dear White People (2014)
“It’s a strange symbiosis that we’re here to investigate.” I’ll just come out and say it; I did not like this movie. There’s no lead character, no tangible or metaphorical […]
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