Late Night (2019)
Late Night is a film so affable and so relentlessly competent that I spent a full day after screening it trying to convince myself that I liked it. I didn’t.… Continue reading "Late Night (2019)"
Category: Disclosure
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The Sower (Francen, 2017)
The Sower is not a great film, but it is so much better than any summary of its tawdry premise could make it sound that I’m tempted to just give… Continue reading "The Sower (Francen, 2017)"
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Les Misérables (Shankland, 2019)
In the Spring of 1982, I switched sections of my high-school English class. Bored by the lackadaisical pace of American educational learning and being (I realize in retrospect) a bit… Continue reading "Les Misérables (Shankland, 2019)"
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Tolkien (Karukoski, 2019)
One can’t study J. R. R. Tolkien for very long without encountering his preface to The Lord of the Rings in which he rejects forcefully any interpretations of that work… Continue reading "Tolkien (Karukoski, 2019)"
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Faith, Hope & Love (Englert and Krantz, 2019)
Faith, Hope & Love unites two of the most formulaic genres in today’s movies: the romantic comedy and the “Christian” film. Given that starting point, the film shouldn’t work nearly… Continue reading "Faith, Hope & Love (Englert and Krantz, 2019)"
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Captain Marvel (Boden and Fleck)
It’s been roughly four years (and a rough four years) since I gave a 1 1/2 star review to Avengers: Age of Ultron. Since then, I have admitted to liking… Continue reading "Captain Marvel (Boden and Fleck)"
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Time for Ilhan (Shapiro, 2018)
I first encountered the political career of Barack Obama not through a convention speech or town hall debate but through Bob Hercules’s Senator Obama Goes to Africa. I won’t say… Continue reading "Time for Ilhan (Shapiro, 2018)"
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Transit (Petzold, 2019)
Calling a film “difficult” or “hard” is, in some respects, a no-win proposition for a reviewer. If that label is given in conjunction with a poor review, it invites barbs… Continue reading "Transit (Petzold, 2019)"
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Glass (Shyamalan, 2019)
When M. Night Shyamalan’s Split met with favorable reviews in 2016, I wondered pretty openly whether or not the film’s twist left a fresher taste in viewer’s mouths than the… Continue reading "Glass (Shyamalan, 2019)"
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The Weight of Success (Silverstein, 2018)
The Weight of Success is mostly a missed opportunity to explore the important topic of whether or not life coaching and/or psychology work and the more important topic of whether… Continue reading "The Weight of Success (Silverstein, 2018)"