Deadpool 2
Gleeful genre-bashing
Movies
Phantom Thread
A perfectionist on imperfection
Wonder Wheel
Wondering about Woody
Peter Rabbit
Paddington envy
12 Strong
An ordinary film about extraordinary soldiers
Molly’s Game
All in for this winner
Ready Player One
Quality eye candy
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
I put off seeing this movie, vaguely remembering its 1995 predecessor as a lame SFX extravaganza elevated to the (barely) watchable level by Robin Williams. But I’m here to tell you I had a ball. Four stereotypical US teens are sucked into the title board game and assume adult avatars, none of which remotely resembles […]
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
In the mid-20th century, “city planners” such as Robert Moses, gleefully tore down New York City’s wonderful neighborhoods in favor of utopian housing schemes and massive expressways. The buildings would become known as “the projects,” and look how that turned out. They would’ve destroyed the rest of the city were it not for writer and […]
Red Sparrow
A Bolshoi prima ballerina breaks a leg and is (naturally) sent to a government whore school to learn how to use her wiles as weapons. While Jennifer Lawrence’s sheer star presence can make any film compulsively watchable, I’m kind of disappointed she chose to take on such a pointless, pervy actioner built on a theme […]
Darkest Hour
But Gary Oldman’s brightest
The Only Living Boy in New York
Grating coming-of-age navel gazer