Michelle Pfeiffer shines in a role that seems custom made for her, but the film is too languid to fully work as a comedy.
Nobody (2021) – Movie Review
Someone asked the question “Can you make John Wick with Bob Odenkirk instead of Keanu?”, and the answer turns out be, oh yeah you can!
Freaky (2021) – Movie Review
A fun slasher horror body swap comedy that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
Breaking News in Yuba County (2021) – Movie Review
A crime comedy that, while entertaining, gets lost in its overcrowded supporting cast.
Mortal Kombat (2021) – Movie Review
If you’re gonna make a Mortal Kombat movie, you can’t do it halfway. This adaptation revels in the game’s excess and gore with infectious glee.
The Mauritanian (2021) – Movie Review
The Mauritanian feels like an anomaly, a movie straight out of 2003 -in content and in form- that through some mysterious phenomenon materialized instead in 2021
Stowaway (2021) – Movie Review
On the spectrum of spacefaring sci-fi thrillers, Stowaway exists somewhere in the middle of Gravity’s nonstop action and Ad Astra’s cerebral reflections, discreet and practical above all else.
Dear Comrades (2021) – Movie Review
The transformation of a proud Soviet party official from dogmatic soldier to human being, this film may be dry but not without sentiment.
Barb and Star Go to Vista del Mar (2021) – Movie Review
Unabashedly cheery and joyful, Wiig and Mummolo shine in a good old-fashioned comedy that mixes improv with slapstick and buddy movie tropes.
Ammonite (2021) – Movie Review
Francis Lee’s followup to God’s Own Country is a moody and atmospheric -if oddly cold and passionless- period love story.
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