Well-acted by its lead, and is effectively filmed for the most part, but this movie’s ponderous pacing does it no favors. It does have an engaging premise of a young woman who we find out has been abducted by her own mother and lied to about her father. We go back and forth between the present and flashbacks of mother and daughter on the road, staying at motels and whatnot. The most effective section is when she leaves their new…
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Dave 1993
Director Ivan Reitman and writer Gary Ross’s homage to Frank Capra (Meet John Doe in particular) finds remarkable balance between satire and sentiment. Its send-up of the political terrain is hilarious but controlled within a realistic context, and James Newton Howard’s score is one of his best — it immediately sets the tone and is used as a guide for each section of the film when needed. And, of course, Kevin Kline as the titular reluctant hero/Everyman who discovers his inner…
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Ready Player One 2018
Second time around, I still had a blast, the opening 45 minutes to an hour are pure dynamite for the senses. It’s hard not to be in awe of Spielberg’s craftsmanship, especially during that first race scene. It’s so phenomenally filmed and edited, it makes you wonder what our future will hold in the entertainment department.
It was fun re-watching, knowing what was coming, because it freed up the viewer to find the Easter Eggs we’d… -
Avengers: Infinity War 2018
Epic spectacle on the grandest scale imaginable. Effortlessly interweaves from location to location, and from hero to hero, slowing down a bit here and there with overlong expositional scenes, but filled with eye-popping art direction (there were 15 art directors who worked on this film) and staggering special effects.
This was the most effective of the three Avengers movies at incorporating humor into the narrative, never seeming superfluous, but more naturally occurring in the moment due…