“The Disaster Artist” — A Perfectly Wonderful Film About a Perfectly Dreadful Movie
DECEMBER 27, 2017 Have you ever seen “The Room”? I hadn’t either, so I decided to Netflix the legendary 2003 midnight movie a couple of weeks ago so that…
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Reviews of big budget Hollywood films
Guillermo del Toro’s Mesmerizing “The Shape of Water”
DECEMBER 12, 2017 Guillermo del Toro certainly loves the movies. His latest film, “The Shape of Water,” is a Cold War thriller, a musical, a heist movie, an interspecies…
Gary Oldman Will Likely Bellow His Way to an Oscar for “Darkest Hour”
DECEMBER 7, 2017 Ever since “Darkest Hour” premiered in September in Telluride, the word was out that Gary Oldman was a shoo-in to win the Oscar for Best Actor…
Martin McDonagh’s Brilliant “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
NOVEMBER 29, 2017 Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) is trying to mediate an argument between her daughter Angela (Kathryn Newton) and son Robbie (Lucas Hedges), as Angela wants to borrow…
Greta Gerwig’s Remarkable “Lady Bird”
NOVEMBER 27, 2017 OK, I was wrong. While that three-word phrase might do wonders in my marriage, it’s not great if I’m trying to establish credibility in a movie…
Pixar’s “Coco” is a Dazzling Delight
NOVEMBER 22, 2017 In its past 18 feature films, Pixar Studios has taken on some challenging subject matter in its animated features — the desperate search for a missing…
Kenneth Branagh’s “Murder on the Orient Express” a Fun But Unnecessary Remake
NOVEMBER 21, 2017 The real star of the new remake of Agatha Christie’s classic “Murder on the Orient Express” is not a person but a thing — a glorious…
“Blade Runner 2049” — Absolutely Gorgeous, But Waaaay Too Long
NOVEMBER 6, 2017 Few people remember this, but I was around in 1982, and Ridley Scott’s classic sci-fi film “Blade Runner” laid at huge goose-egg at the box-office. Thanks…
Now Playing In Your Living Room — Noah Baumbach’s Wonderful “The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)”
OCTOBER 19, 2017 I never thought that I would write this sentence, but Adam Sander gives one of the year’s very best performances in Noah Baumbach’s latest film “The…
“Victoria & Abdul” — Judi Dench is a Hoot, but Otherwise There’s Little Drama in This Drama
OCTOBER 3, 2017 “Victoria & Abdul” would seem to have everything going for it. It’s very “Masterpiece Theatre” -like with an extra dollop of humor thrown in, and we…
