Category: Movie Reviews
REVIEW: Peter Pan and Wendy (2023)
Disney’s latest live-action remake, Peter Pan and Wendy, hit Disney+ this Friday. Disney’s Peter Pan is far from my favorite animated classic, and I rarely enjoy adaptations of J. M. Barrie’s novel and play. The 2003 version starring Jason Isaacs is my favorite, and I like some s...
Read MoreREVIEW: Chevalier (2023)
This weekend saw the release of Chevalier, the latest musician biopic. This time, the gimmick is that it’s a period piece telling the lost life story of a black classical musician and composer. I didn’t know anything about Chevalier; when I first heard the title, I assumed it referred to...
Read MoreREVIEW: Evil Read Rise (2023)
Evil Dead Rise is a couch potato of a movie. It sits there like a lump, never moving, never surprising, preferring not to think, tuning in to reruns so it can clap in all the expected places. In real life, I have great respect for the couch potato; in cinema, I’d prefer the filmmakers to … ...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Pope’s Exorcist (2023)
The Pope’s Exorcist makes me hate Thor: Love and Thunder even more. This is the Russell Crowe we love, the one who’s always the best thing about a movie, who brings gravitas and complexity, joy and pain, doubt and resolve to the characters he plays. Casting him as Zeus was a masterstroke; for Ta...
Read MoreREVIEW: Renfield (2023)
The best thing you can say about Renfield is, “At least it’s short.” The catch-22 is that it could have used more time to flesh out its characters, develop its plot, and attempt to make you care about anything that’s happening. But when you sit through ninety minutes of an ineptly directed �...
Read MoreREVIEW: Air (2023)
It’s been seven years since Ben Affleck directed a movie (or seven years since a movie he directed was released, to be more accurate), and Air shows us what we’ve been missing. This movie is excellent, a relentless, endlessly human, and distinctly American story about people who broke the rules ...
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