While visually impressive, ALITA gets bogged down in someone’s desire to live in a world where you can find a young woman in a trash pile, rebuild her, use her memory-less ingenue nature to have cutesy romantic moments... what I’m saying is, we get it, someone behind this movie wishes they could fuck a robot instead of having to connect with the complex beings known as human women. It’s a bad message for the youths and I don’t like it.

Shyamalan goes hard and gets weird, for better and worse.

Here’s the thing... Audible horror is my kryptonite. A QUIET PLACE is the MOST audible horror movie I’ve ever seen. Emotionally, I’m spent. Intellectually, I recognize that this movie fucking rules. Krasinski, Blunt, the kids, all top notch.

It’s a rare bird: the mid-budget action movie that can deliver big, chest-rattling action and still feel like it has the smarts and resourcefulness of a much smaller film. It’s also a hell of a good time.