“The Big Sick” Looks Like a “Boy-Meets-Girl” Romantic Comedy, But Wait
AUGUST 3, 2017 The second-birthday celebration for Exact Change Today is over, and it’s time to get back to work. And happily, we begin Year #3 on a very…
Film Review
Reviews of big budget Hollywood films
Here’s a Surprise — “Spider-Man: Homecoming” Isn’t Awful
JULY 25, 2017 “Spider-Man: Homecoming” was one of the big surprises of the summer for me — not because it’s great (it isn’t) but because it’s not awful, which…
“Baby Driver” May Just Be the Film of the Summer So Far
JUNE 28, 2017 No one’s wearing tap shoes and there’s only occasional vocalizing from the cast, but Edgar Wright’s blood-spattered crime drama “Baby Driver” has the moves of a…
“Wonder Woman” — Finally! A Superhero Movie Where the Characters Behave Like Real People
JUNE 22, 2017 A sense of humor. That’s the one key element that has been missing in the superhero films produced by DC Comics. Though to varying degrees they…
“Baywatch” — As Empty As the TV Show, But At Least There’s Dwayne Johnson
MAY 31, 2017 I blame it all on “21 Jump Street.” No, not the Johnny Depp TV series from the late 1980s whose story-lines were always reliably made from…
“Alien: Covenant” Suggests That There May Be a Little Hope Left For a Faltering Franchise
MAY 30, 2017 I had been in New York for a few years when the company I worked for closed early for the day, and I rushed over to…
“Snatched” — Goldie Hawn Came Out of Retirement for This?
MAY 18, 2017 On paper, “Snatched” must have looked like a home run. First, there’s Amy Schumer, the Emmy-winning comic actress who is coming off her hugely successful 2015…
Is “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” As Good or Better Than the First One? Well, Yes and No
MAY 9, 2017 Groot is back. The summer movie season officially kicked off over the weekend with the much-anticipated sequel to the surprise 2014 hit, “Guardians of the Galaxy.” …
“The Lost City of Z” — A Brave Explorer Sails Into the Depths of the Amazon Jungle. But Why?
APRIL 26, 2017 One of the several movie genres that has blessedly disappeared from the nation’s theater screens is the jungle movie. By that, I don’t mean “Apocalypse Now”…
“The Zookeeper’s Wife” Promises a Fresh Take on a Holocaust Movie But Fails To Follow Through
MARCH 10, 2017 I’m not going to call out a fellow film critic who described “The Zookeeper’s Wife” as “‘Schindler’s List’ with pets.” That would be disrespectful and very…
