Got a few glowing recommendations on this from some film friends, so I decided to give it a shot. While I appreciated what was being attempted here, I feel like at this point in our film history, you need to come up with a little more that what was provided in this film.
I liked the slow development of the story, I loved the camerawork which had long and extensive takes contrasting with quick fast edit takes, depending on the…
The Lovebirds is your common romantic comedy/murder mystery, powered through by the likability and comedic timing of Rae and Nanjiani.
This would have been a perfect AMC A-List watch. I miss the movie theater.
As this was a Sandler-produced film, it can be graded on my Adam Sandler scale, which is ONE, being Jack & Jill, and TEN, being Uncut Gems.
This film lands squarely as a LITTLE NICKY.
I love Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. There is so much perfection in this perfect film. Here are a few of the best examples:
• Taking a character who has been singular in at least six (at the time) films and bringing to life the phrase "Anyone can wear the mask."
• The animated concept of the Spider-Verse's effect on the reality of Miles' universe
• Kingpin finally represented as the literal larger-than-life character he is
• The family dynamic of…
I will never forget my brother's perfect review of this film, greeting me on a fine morning back in '96 as a voicemail on my work phone:
"Highlander Three... The Final Dimension... was a piece of shit."
It's like this story was put through the Brundle Telepod, and in this trip it became a facsimile of its former, better self.
Why do we root for the bad guys to succeed sometimes? How can a film present criminals pulling a heist, and yet it always seems that, for a moment, we hope for their success?
Den of Thieves plays out like the grungier version of HEAT. Both of the groups of players are here, however the film plays them both as bad/good, and for every terrible or law-breaking thing our "bad" guys pull, there's a similar act done by our "heroes".…
A one hour, 18 minute film with about 30 minutes of that focused on our main subject. The rest of the film presents us a bunch of annoying little shits talking about Wrinkles.
Enjoyable enough, when you're not distressing about the children of our country and their dumb-ass parents.