Category: Reviews
REVIEW: Reacher – Season 2, Episode 3, “Picture Says a Thousand Words”
Reacher’s second season took a bit of a detour with “What Happens in Atlantic City,” but “Picture Says a Thousand Words” revs the show into overdrive. The already quick pace picks up even more speed as Reacher and his team focus their investigation, the connections between the villains ap...
Read MoreREVIEW: Reacher – Season 2, Episode 2, “What Happens in Atlantic City”
“What Happens in Atlantic City” is a busywork episode, bringing Reacher and his team to a new location to chase a lead in their investigation while little of the story develops. These can feel like video game sidequests if handled poorly; fortunately, Reacher roots this episode in character, an...
Read MoreREVIEW: Reacher – Season 2, Episode 1, “ATM”
As Christmas approaches and 2023 winds down, Amazon gave us a stocking stuffer to end a mostly disappointing entertainment year on a high note: season 2 of Reacher, or at least the beginning of it. Based on Lee Child’s series of mystery novels, Reacher follows the exploits of Jack Reacher, a form...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023)
I don’t have much of a history with The Hunger Games franchise. I saw all four movies in theaters, but it was for my sister, who read all the books and loved Katniss. But I never read them myself, and I don’t regularly re-watch the films or anything like that. When a prequel film was an...
Read MoreREVIEW: Godzilla Minus One (2023)
Godzilla Minus One feels like the little movie that could, taking America by storm the way Godzilla takes Tokyo. It seems like a legitimate crowd-pleaser, with movie fans praising it and buying enough tickets to secure it a wider release this week. And it’s a pretty good movie to boot, with some ...
Read MoreREVIEW: Napoleon (2023)
Napoleon feels like a clip show of what may well be a great movie. At two and a half hours, it feels rushed, with too little time devoted to establishing the titular conqueror or his beloved Joséphine, not to mention the many battles and political maneuvering that defined his career. We get snippe...
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