“Victory lies at the intersection of vulnerability and acceptance,” opines writer/director Rocky Walls. That sentiment so earnestly captures Dirty Laundry‘s themes and tone that it is tempting to accept it… Continue reading "Dirty Laundry (Walls, 2024)"
Sometimes a movie hangs in the balance and you don’t know if it is a hit or miss until the end. At other times, a film may reveal itself as… Continue reading "Goebbels and the Führer (Lang, 2024)"
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)"
