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World War Z 2013
I'm automatically predisposed to being in the corner for any zombie apocalypse summer event movie, and there's something majestically menacing about those images of thousands of zombies making like oiled-up Marines at the Herndon Monument, but Marc Forster remains possibly the most inept filmmaker in the business. Every last person in my audience was primed to see Pitt tangle in the glass cage with that crazy-eyed Haitian zombie woman.
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Before Midnight 2013
Odd not to love this one the best out of the trilogy since it actually comes closest to what I would regard as "the truth" about relationships (namely, that there is no such thing as a soulmate and the best you can do is hope that you spend a certain amount of time with a compatible person and that they want to eject from the arrangement at roughly the same time you do). On the other hand, the series now…
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Les Misérables 2012
There Will Be Spittle. Abrupt when it should be expansive, meandering when it should've tightened the libretto up, soft when it should be loud, loud when it should be really loud. Hooper's evident distaste for the artifice of this particular strain of musical theater turns him into an at best naive, at worst clueless backslider whenever he thrusts his dutch angles deep inside Hugh Jackman's flaring nostrils to see how shrilly he can vibrate the likely receptive audience's tuning forks.…
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Pitch Perfect 2012
So torn. On one hand, this is a film in which the most sympathetic character says THE BREAKFAST CLUB and ROCKY are two of the best-scored movies of all time. On the other hand, it's a film in which a near-mute suicide girl is practically pinned against her insert close-ups, whispers about eating her twin fetus in the womb, and makes snow angels in piles of vomit. Stuck somewhere between GLEE and DROP DEAD GORGEOUS, but "212" and "Titanium" pop up on the soundtrack, so a capprove.
