I almost turned it off after thirty minutes. I am glad I didn’t. The irony of that response isn’t lost on me. Another Happy Day is about post-partum depression, and… Continue reading "Another Happy Day (Fiffer, 2023)"
And Mrs flirts with being a great melodrama, and it flirts with being a mediocre comedy. I was rooting for it right up to the end, but when I thought… Continue reading "And Mrs (Reisinger, 2024)"
To call Sweetheart Deal a tough watch is to simultaneously say nothing and everything. It is the least a critic can say before checking it off the “to do” list… Continue reading "Sweetheart Deal (Levine and Miller, 2022)"
Antarctic Voyage is a serviceable documentary that never quite articulates a reason for being sufficient to distinguish it from other nature films. Director Kevin Schreck name-drops David Attenborough in the… Continue reading "Antarctic Voyage (Schreck, 2024)"
Three is a particular style of comedy that I have never much cared for that calls on us to laugh at (or with, but usually at) a put-upon protagonist. When… Continue reading "I’ll Be Right There (Walsh, 2024)"
If I am honest, I spent most of Sing Sing wishing there was a quality documentary about the material that I could watch instead. Part of that reaction can be… Continue reading "Sing Sing (Kwedar, 2023)"
Twisters was not a poorly made film from a spectacle perspective, but I found it repetitive and, hence, boring. There are five or six set pieces of the characters chasing… Continue reading "Twisters (Chung, 2024)"
The first two notes I had from my advanced screening were about jokes in the opening five to ten minutes of screen time. Gru’s antagonist for the film takes on… Continue reading "Despicable Me 4 (Renaud and Delage, 2024)"
Monia Chokri’s The Nature of Love is ruthlessly efficient at juxtaposing the boredom, banality, and brevity of stable domestic partnerships with the thrilling, intoxicating eroticism of newly found passion. In… Continue reading "The Nature of Love (Chokri, 2023)"
Tuesday is sort of a mash-up of The Seventh Seal and A Monster Calls, only death is a giant parrot who, instead of playing chess, does some grief therapy. Also,… Continue reading "Tuesday (Oniunas-Pusic, 2023)"
