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ERIC'S BAD MOVIES ARCHIVES May 20, 2013. Eric's Bad Movies. "Misbegotten" is a sleazy, stupid direct-to-video thriller from 1998 playing on the fears and insecurities of couples who have babies via artificial insemination from anonymous sperm donors. PAPER CLIPS (DOCUMENTARY) Paper Clips (documentary) By. Eric D. Snider. -. November 4, 2004. It was a middle school in tiny Whitwell, Tenn., that set out to collect 6 million paper clips to commemorate the 6 million Jews killed during the Nazi holocaust. The irony of such an act coming from the rural South is not lost on Whitwellians in “Paper Clips,” the AN AFFAIR OF LOVE (FRENCH) An Affair of Love (French) By. Eric D. Snider. -. August 11, 2000. The French title — “Une liaison pornographique” — may have been more titillating, but “An Affair of Love” is a more apt description of what goes on in this ultra-modern but sweetly old-fashioned love story. As recalled in separate interviews with thetwo participants
BOLERO - ERICDSNIDER.COM Bolero. Released: August 31, 1984. When you think of creepy old men, the name John Derek should spring obscenely to the top of your mental list, like a peeping Tom springs from the bushes when illuminated by a police officer’s flashlight. In the early 1970s, when he was 46, John Derek left his wife, a full-grown woman named Linda Evans, for a 'NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN': BELL AND CHIGURH AND THE MOTEL Bell hurries to Moss’ hotel room, where a wounded Mexican is crawling away and where Moss lies dead just inside the door. It would appear the Mexicans arrived while Moss was still talking to the pool girl. Moss was carrying his rifle (in a case), so he was able to return fire on the Mexicans before fleeing to his room. 'NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN': THE STATUS OF MOSS By far the most thoughtful discussion I’ve ever seen on this website has been the one about “No Country for Old Men” (the best film of 2007, in my opinion). If you read the comments people have posted, you’ll see a variety of interpretations of the film’s GOOBY - ERICDSNIDER.COM Gooby. Released: April 17, 2009. Canada is a magical, faraway land that few people have ever seen. Some scholars believe is mythical, like Narnia. The “Canadians,” as they are known, have many fantastical customs, such as putting the letter “u” in words that don’t need it, and eating ketchup-flavored potato chips, and lettingthe
HUNK - ERICDSNIDER.COM Hunk is the toast of the town. He has sex with as many women as he possibly can, which is many women indeed. He sets fashion trends by ripping the sleeves off his jacket and wearing it, bare-chested, with a popped collar and a necktie, as if he were both a Chippendale’s dancer and a douchebag. Life is great for Hunk-who-used-to-be-Bradley. ANN LANDERS' FINAL COLUMN Ann Landers’ Final Column. July 17, 2002. Dear Ann Landers: My wife and I are expecting triplets. We were certain our family would rejoice with us, but we were wrong. The comments went like this: “You’re really going to have your hands full,” or “I hope you will haveplenty of help.”.
MOVIE REVIEWS BY ERIC D. SNIDERMOVIE REVIEWSSNIDE REMARKSERIC’S BAD MOVIESBLOGMISCELLANEOUSMUSIC & COMEDY Movie Reviews. According to the onscreen titles, "Sister Aimee" is "5 1/2 percent truth," the rest amusing, subversive, educated guesswork. What's definitely true is that in 1926, a charismatic evangelist,faith-hea
ERIC'S BAD MOVIES ARCHIVES May 20, 2013. Eric's Bad Movies. "Misbegotten" is a sleazy, stupid direct-to-video thriller from 1998 playing on the fears and insecurities of couples who have babies via artificial insemination from anonymous sperm donors. PAPER CLIPS (DOCUMENTARY) Paper Clips (documentary) By. Eric D. Snider. -. November 4, 2004. It was a middle school in tiny Whitwell, Tenn., that set out to collect 6 million paper clips to commemorate the 6 million Jews killed during the Nazi holocaust. The irony of such an act coming from the rural South is not lost on Whitwellians in “Paper Clips,” the AN AFFAIR OF LOVE (FRENCH) An Affair of Love (French) By. Eric D. Snider. -. August 11, 2000. The French title — “Une liaison pornographique” — may have been more titillating, but “An Affair of Love” is a more apt description of what goes on in this ultra-modern but sweetly old-fashioned love story. As recalled in separate interviews with thetwo participants
BOLERO - ERICDSNIDER.COM Bolero. Released: August 31, 1984. When you think of creepy old men, the name John Derek should spring obscenely to the top of your mental list, like a peeping Tom springs from the bushes when illuminated by a police officer’s flashlight. In the early 1970s, when he was 46, John Derek left his wife, a full-grown woman named Linda Evans, for a 'NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN': BELL AND CHIGURH AND THE MOTEL Bell hurries to Moss’ hotel room, where a wounded Mexican is crawling away and where Moss lies dead just inside the door. It would appear the Mexicans arrived while Moss was still talking to the pool girl. Moss was carrying his rifle (in a case), so he was able to return fire on the Mexicans before fleeing to his room. 'NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN': THE STATUS OF MOSS By far the most thoughtful discussion I’ve ever seen on this website has been the one about “No Country for Old Men” (the best film of 2007, in my opinion). If you read the comments people have posted, you’ll see a variety of interpretations of the film’s GOOBY - ERICDSNIDER.COM Gooby. Released: April 17, 2009. Canada is a magical, faraway land that few people have ever seen. Some scholars believe is mythical, like Narnia. The “Canadians,” as they are known, have many fantastical customs, such as putting the letter “u” in words that don’t need it, and eating ketchup-flavored potato chips, and lettingthe
HUNK - ERICDSNIDER.COM Hunk is the toast of the town. He has sex with as many women as he possibly can, which is many women indeed. He sets fashion trends by ripping the sleeves off his jacket and wearing it, bare-chested, with a popped collar and a necktie, as if he were both a Chippendale’s dancer and a douchebag. Life is great for Hunk-who-used-to-be-Bradley. ANN LANDERS' FINAL COLUMN Ann Landers’ Final Column. July 17, 2002. Dear Ann Landers: My wife and I are expecting triplets. We were certain our family would rejoice with us, but we were wrong. The comments went like this: “You’re really going to have your hands full,” or “I hope you will haveplenty of help.”.
MOVIE REVIEWS ARCHIVES Movie Reviews A- | PG-13 | December 11, 2020. "Minari" is a happy smile of a movie about a Korean-American family (mom, dad, young boy and girl) moving to Arkansas in the 1980s to try farming. There's potential for a lot of major drama -- the boy has a heart murmur; grandma comes to live with th AN AFFAIR OF LOVE (FRENCH) An Affair of Love (French) By. Eric D. Snider. -. August 11, 2000. The French title — “Une liaison pornographique” — may have been more titillating, but “An Affair of Love” is a more apt description of what goes on in this ultra-modern but sweetly old-fashioned love story. As recalled in separate interviews with thetwo participants
SHE GETS WHAT SHE WANTS (NOTE: “She Gets What She Wants” was originally titled “Slap Her, She’s French” and was scheduled for a summer 2002 theatrical release. It was screened for critics about a month early, then pushed back to another date, and then another, and more and more, all because the distributor, The Premiere Group, was having financial troubles. HYSTERIA - ERICDSNIDER.COM In the olden days, “hysteria” was a medical term applied to women (it comes from the Greek for “uterus”) to describe everything from anxiety to melancholy to fluid retention. Some of the symptoms were eventually attributed to a lack of sexual satisfaction, though it took a while for doctors to express this directly. Anyway, the 'NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN': BELL AND CHIGURH AND THE MOTEL Bell hurries to Moss’ hotel room, where a wounded Mexican is crawling away and where Moss lies dead just inside the door. It would appear the Mexicans arrived while Moss was still talking to the pool girl. Moss was carrying his rifle (in a case), so he was able to return fire on the Mexicans before fleeing to his room.MALENA (ITALIAN)
Giuseppe Tornatore, whose “Cinema Paradiso” was everyone’s favorite Italian film before “Life Is Beautiful” came along, returns to his nostalgia roots with “Malena,” a charming and vulgar story about a woman whose beauty enraptures an entire town. The Malena in question (played by Monica Bellucci) is a smoldering beauty, the daughter of an elderly Latin TENTACLES - ERICDSNIDER.COM “Tentacles” is a cheap “Jaws” rip-off about a giant octopus. It was made at a time when everybody was trying to think of which giant sea creatures other than sharks could theoretically terrify moviegoers. It is not a good movie. But it’s hard to call it acomplete failure
BUTTERFLY (1982)
Butterfly (1982) Released: February 5, 1982. Give the people what they want! That is Hollywood’s mantra. In 1982, what people wanted was a gross story about a teenage harlot using her feminine wiles to seduce her own father. Goodness knows why the people wanted this, but they did. The people further requested that the girl and her dad be ANN LANDERS' FINAL COLUMN Ann Landers’ Final Column. July 17, 2002. Dear Ann Landers: My wife and I are expecting triplets. We were certain our family would rejoice with us, but we were wrong. The comments went like this: “You’re really going to have your hands full,” or “I hope you will haveplenty of help.”.
COLOR OF NIGHT
Color of Night. Released: August 19, 1994. “Color of Night” begins with a pretty woman in a nice dress sobbing while she applies her makeup. She looks like she’s getting ready to go out on a date. But then she smears on her lipstick in a comical fashion, puts a gun in her mouth, and, as she continues to cry, simulates performing a sexact
MOVIE REVIEWS BY ERIC D. SNIDERMOVIE REVIEWSSNIDE REMARKSERIC’S BAD MOVIESBLOGMISCELLANEOUSMUSIC & COMEDY "The Glorias" is a biopic of Gloria Steinem and the women's movement up to the present day, with four actresses playing her at different ages: little girl, tween, young woman (she's Alicia Vikander thBLESSED ART THOU
If you’re the head of a California monastery and one of your priests suddenly turns into not just a woman, but an inexplicably pregnant woman, you’re bound to do a little soul-searching. That’s what “Blessed Art Thou” — also released as “A Question of Faith”—
AN AFFAIR OF LOVE (FRENCH) The French title — “Une liaison pornographique” — may have been more titillating, but “An Affair of Love” is a more apt description of what goes on in this ultra-modern but sweetly old-fashioned love story. As recalled in separate interviews with the two participants, now broken up, we learn how He (Sergi Lopez) and She THE BASKET - ERICDSNIDER.COM “The Basket” earnestly strives to be a family-friendly movie that teaches a nice lesson while entertaining its audience, all while avoiding profanity, sex or violence. And while it doesn’t succeed at being a particularly great piece of filmmaking, its sincerity and even-handedness make it a likable, pleasant movie to watch. Set in thepicturesque wheat
'NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN': BELL AND CHIGURH AND THE MOTEL In a previous post, we talked about an element of “No Country for Old Men” that had led to misunderstandings. Now we address something where there truly are several possible explanations: Sheriff Bell and Anton Chigurh in the motel room. Were they there at the same time? What is the deal with that scene? First,HAGAZUSSA (GERMAN)
Etymology time! “Hagazussa” (“hedge sitter”), an Old High German word that gave us witchy terms like “hag” and “hex,” refers to the old women who would sit near the hedges that separated cultivated land from wild forests, gathering herbs and such while the menfolk did agricultural labor. The movie called “Hagazussa” isabout a medieval
SHE GETS WHAT SHE WANTS (NOTE: “She Gets What She Wants” was originally titled “Slap Her, She’s French” and was scheduled for a summer 2002 theatrical release. It was screened for critics about a month early, then pushed back to another date, and then another, and more and more, all because the distributor, The Premiere Group, was having financial troubles.THE DA VINCI CODE
Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Codeâ€? may not have been a literary masterpiece, but at least it was good preposterous fun. Ron Howard’s movie adaptation, on the other hand -- a thick, bloated film in which a very stern-faced Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou dash around Europe blurting important-sounding dialogue -- takes itself far too seriously 'NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN': THE STATUS OF MOSS By far the most thoughtful discussion I’ve ever seen on this website has been the one about “No Country for Old Men” (the best film of 2007, in my opinion). If you read the comments people have posted, you’ll see a variety of interpretations of the film’s BOLERO - ERICDSNIDER.COM When you think of creepy old men, the name John Derek should spring obscenely to the top of your mental list, like a peeping Tom springs from the bushes when illuminated by a police officer’s flashlight. In the early 1970s, when he was 46, John Derek left his wife, a MOVIE REVIEWS BY ERIC D. SNIDERMOVIE REVIEWSSNIDE REMARKSERIC’S BAD MOVIESBLOGMISCELLANEOUSMUSIC & COMEDY "The Glorias" is a biopic of Gloria Steinem and the women's movement up to the present day, with four actresses playing her at different ages: little girl, tween, young woman (she's Alicia Vikander thBLESSED ART THOU
If you’re the head of a California monastery and one of your priests suddenly turns into not just a woman, but an inexplicably pregnant woman, you’re bound to do a little soul-searching. That’s what “Blessed Art Thou” — also released as “A Question of Faith”—
AN AFFAIR OF LOVE (FRENCH) The French title — “Une liaison pornographique” — may have been more titillating, but “An Affair of Love” is a more apt description of what goes on in this ultra-modern but sweetly old-fashioned love story. As recalled in separate interviews with the two participants, now broken up, we learn how He (Sergi Lopez) and She THE BASKET - ERICDSNIDER.COM “The Basket” earnestly strives to be a family-friendly movie that teaches a nice lesson while entertaining its audience, all while avoiding profanity, sex or violence. And while it doesn’t succeed at being a particularly great piece of filmmaking, its sincerity and even-handedness make it a likable, pleasant movie to watch. Set in thepicturesque wheat
'NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN': BELL AND CHIGURH AND THE MOTEL In a previous post, we talked about an element of “No Country for Old Men” that had led to misunderstandings. Now we address something where there truly are several possible explanations: Sheriff Bell and Anton Chigurh in the motel room. Were they there at the same time? What is the deal with that scene? First,HAGAZUSSA (GERMAN)
Etymology time! “Hagazussa” (“hedge sitter”), an Old High German word that gave us witchy terms like “hag” and “hex,” refers to the old women who would sit near the hedges that separated cultivated land from wild forests, gathering herbs and such while the menfolk did agricultural labor. The movie called “Hagazussa” isabout a medieval
SHE GETS WHAT SHE WANTS (NOTE: “She Gets What She Wants” was originally titled “Slap Her, She’s French” and was scheduled for a summer 2002 theatrical release. It was screened for critics about a month early, then pushed back to another date, and then another, and more and more, all because the distributor, The Premiere Group, was having financial troubles.THE DA VINCI CODE
Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Codeâ€? may not have been a literary masterpiece, but at least it was good preposterous fun. Ron Howard’s movie adaptation, on the other hand -- a thick, bloated film in which a very stern-faced Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou dash around Europe blurting important-sounding dialogue -- takes itself far too seriously 'NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN': THE STATUS OF MOSS By far the most thoughtful discussion I’ve ever seen on this website has been the one about “No Country for Old Men” (the best film of 2007, in my opinion). If you read the comments people have posted, you’ll see a variety of interpretations of the film’s BOLERO - ERICDSNIDER.COM When you think of creepy old men, the name John Derek should spring obscenely to the top of your mental list, like a peeping Tom springs from the bushes when illuminated by a police officer’s flashlight. In the early 1970s, when he was 46, John Derek left his wife, a MOVIE REVIEWS ARCHIVES "Minari" is a happy smile of a movie about a Korean-American family (mom, dad, young boy and girl) moving to Arkansas in the 1980s to tryfarming.
ERIC'S BAD MOVIES ARCHIVES Weekly columns written 2008-2014 — the first 245 for Film.com, the last six for GeekNation. The point was to be funny rather than fair, and they’re full of spoilers, so I don’t consider them “reviews.” What do I consider them? Delightful.HAGAZUSSA (GERMAN)
Etymology time! “Hagazussa” (“hedge sitter”), an Old High German word that gave us witchy terms like “hag” and “hex,” refers to the old women who would sit near the hedges that separated cultivated land from wild forests, gathering herbs and such while the menfolk did agricultural labor. The movie called “Hagazussa” isabout a medieval
BOLERO - ERICDSNIDER.COM When you think of creepy old men, the name John Derek should spring obscenely to the top of your mental list, like a peeping Tom springs from the bushes when illuminated by a police officer’s flashlight. In the early 1970s, when he was 46, John Derek left his wife, a HYSTERIA - ERICDSNIDER.COM In the olden days, “hysteria” was a medical term applied to women (it comes from the Greek for “uterus”) to describe everything from anxiety to melancholy to fluid retention. Some of the symptoms were eventually attributed to a lack of sexual satisfaction, though it took a while for doctors to express this directly. Anyway, theBRIGHAM CITY
Richard Dutcher’s much-anticipated follow-up to “God’s Army” is two things: a very bad murder mystery and a wonderfully moving spiritual drama. “Brigham City” is set in the fictional Utah town of Brigham (not Brigham City, which is a real place), a small suburb with tree-lined streets where nearly everyone is Mormon and absolutelyeveryone knows
MALENA (ITALIAN)
Giuseppe Tornatore, whose “Cinema Paradiso” was everyone’s favorite Italian film before “Life Is Beautiful” came along, returns to his nostalgia roots with “Malena,” a charming and vulgar story about a woman whose beauty enraptures an entire town. The Malena in question (played by Monica Bellucci) is a smoldering beauty, the daughter of an elderly Latin HOW RELIGIOUS IS 'WALL-E'? (This post contains minor “WALL-E” spoilers.) Many of you saw “WALL-E” over the weekend, and no doubt some of you noticed biblical themes in it. You can’t name a main character “Eve” without invoking the Garden of Eden, of course; nobody could missthat. But
ANN LANDERS' FINAL COLUMN I have no defense for this column other than I think it's a funny idea, trying to do your job right up to the very end. It is almost certainly in poor taste, and disrespectful to the dead and dying, and to "Ann Landers" (not her real name) specifically, and it contains no useful social commentary, which is what I would normally use to justify being distasteful. HUNK - ERICDSNIDER.COM There is an actor you have not heard of named John Allen Nelson who appeared in the TV soap operas “Loving” and “Santa Barbara” in the early 1980s, playing such men as Duke Rochelle and Warren Lockridge, whose names were taken from the book “1,001 Generic Soap Opera Character Names.” Like many men who appear MOVIE REVIEWS BY ERIC D. SNIDERMOVIE REVIEWSSNIDE REMARKSERIC’S BAD MOVIESBLOGMISCELLANEOUSMUSIC & COMEDY Movie Reviews. According to the onscreen titles, "Sister Aimee" is "5 1/2 percent truth," the rest amusing, subversive, educated guesswork. What's definitely true is that in 1926, a charismatic evangelist,faith-hea
HAGAZUSSA (GERMAN)
Etymology time! “Hagazussa” (“hedge sitter”), an Old High German word that gave us witchy terms like “hag” and “hex,” refers to the old women who would sit near the hedges that separated cultivated land from wild forests, gathering herbs and such while the menfolk did agricultural labor. The movie called “Hagazussa” isabout a medieval
PAPER CLIPS (DOCUMENTARY) Paper Clips (documentary) By. Eric D. Snider. -. November 4, 2004. It was a middle school in tiny Whitwell, Tenn., that set out to collect 6 million paper clips to commemorate the 6 million Jews killed during the Nazi holocaust. The irony of such an act coming from the rural South is not lost on Whitwellians in “Paper Clips,” the AN AFFAIR OF LOVE (FRENCH) An Affair of Love (French) By. Eric D. Snider. -. August 11, 2000. The French title — “Une liaison pornographique” — may have been more titillating, but “An Affair of Love” is a more apt description of what goes on in this ultra-modern but sweetly old-fashioned love story. As recalled in separate interviews with thetwo participants
'NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN': THE STATUS OF MOSS By far the most thoughtful discussion I’ve ever seen on this website has been the one about “No Country for Old Men” (the best film of 2007, in my opinion). If you read the comments people have posted, you’ll see a variety of interpretations of the film’s 'NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN': BELL AND CHIGURH AND THE MOTEL Bell hurries to Moss’ hotel room, where a wounded Mexican is crawling away and where Moss lies dead just inside the door. It would appear the Mexicans arrived while Moss was still talking to the pool girl. Moss was carrying his rifle (in a case), so he was able to return fire on the Mexicans before fleeing to his room. INFAMOUS - ERICDSNIDER.COM My heart goes out to Douglas McGrath. The writer/director was hard at work on "Infamous," telling the story of how Truman Capote researched his book "In Cold Blood," when he learned someone else was making a movie on the same subject -- a movie called "Capote," which would go on to win an Oscar and be nominated for four others. "Infamous" will forever be the also-ran, the follow-up. As it SHE GETS WHAT SHE WANTS (NOTE: “She Gets What She Wants” was originally titled “Slap Her, She’s French” and was scheduled for a summer 2002 theatrical release. It was screened for critics about a month early, then pushed back to another date, and then another, and more and more, all because the distributor, The Premiere Group, was having financial troubles. HUNK - ERICDSNIDER.COM Hunk is the toast of the town. He has sex with as many women as he possibly can, which is many women indeed. He sets fashion trends by ripping the sleeves off his jacket and wearing it, bare-chested, with a popped collar and a necktie, as if he were both a Chippendale’s dancer and a douchebag. Life is great for Hunk-who-used-to-be-Bradley.BUTTERFLY (1982)
Butterfly (1982) Released: February 5, 1982. Give the people what they want! That is Hollywood’s mantra. In 1982, what people wanted was a gross story about a teenage harlot using her feminine wiles to seduce her own father. Goodness knows why the people wanted this, but they did. The people further requested that the girl and her dad be MOVIE REVIEWS BY ERIC D. SNIDERMOVIE REVIEWSSNIDE REMARKSERIC’S BAD MOVIESBLOGMISCELLANEOUSMUSIC & COMEDY Movie Reviews. According to the onscreen titles, "Sister Aimee" is "5 1/2 percent truth," the rest amusing, subversive, educated guesswork. What's definitely true is that in 1926, a charismatic evangelist,faith-hea
HAGAZUSSA (GERMAN)
Etymology time! “Hagazussa” (“hedge sitter”), an Old High German word that gave us witchy terms like “hag” and “hex,” refers to the old women who would sit near the hedges that separated cultivated land from wild forests, gathering herbs and such while the menfolk did agricultural labor. The movie called “Hagazussa” isabout a medieval
PAPER CLIPS (DOCUMENTARY) Paper Clips (documentary) By. Eric D. Snider. -. November 4, 2004. It was a middle school in tiny Whitwell, Tenn., that set out to collect 6 million paper clips to commemorate the 6 million Jews killed during the Nazi holocaust. The irony of such an act coming from the rural South is not lost on Whitwellians in “Paper Clips,” the AN AFFAIR OF LOVE (FRENCH) An Affair of Love (French) By. Eric D. Snider. -. August 11, 2000. The French title — “Une liaison pornographique” — may have been more titillating, but “An Affair of Love” is a more apt description of what goes on in this ultra-modern but sweetly old-fashioned love story. As recalled in separate interviews with thetwo participants
'NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN': THE STATUS OF MOSS By far the most thoughtful discussion I’ve ever seen on this website has been the one about “No Country for Old Men” (the best film of 2007, in my opinion). If you read the comments people have posted, you’ll see a variety of interpretations of the film’s 'NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN': BELL AND CHIGURH AND THE MOTEL Bell hurries to Moss’ hotel room, where a wounded Mexican is crawling away and where Moss lies dead just inside the door. It would appear the Mexicans arrived while Moss was still talking to the pool girl. Moss was carrying his rifle (in a case), so he was able to return fire on the Mexicans before fleeing to his room. INFAMOUS - ERICDSNIDER.COM My heart goes out to Douglas McGrath. The writer/director was hard at work on "Infamous," telling the story of how Truman Capote researched his book "In Cold Blood," when he learned someone else was making a movie on the same subject -- a movie called "Capote," which would go on to win an Oscar and be nominated for four others. "Infamous" will forever be the also-ran, the follow-up. As it SHE GETS WHAT SHE WANTS (NOTE: “She Gets What She Wants” was originally titled “Slap Her, She’s French” and was scheduled for a summer 2002 theatrical release. It was screened for critics about a month early, then pushed back to another date, and then another, and more and more, all because the distributor, The Premiere Group, was having financial troubles. HUNK - ERICDSNIDER.COM Hunk is the toast of the town. He has sex with as many women as he possibly can, which is many women indeed. He sets fashion trends by ripping the sleeves off his jacket and wearing it, bare-chested, with a popped collar and a necktie, as if he were both a Chippendale’s dancer and a douchebag. Life is great for Hunk-who-used-to-be-Bradley.BUTTERFLY (1982)
Butterfly (1982) Released: February 5, 1982. Give the people what they want! That is Hollywood’s mantra. In 1982, what people wanted was a gross story about a teenage harlot using her feminine wiles to seduce her own father. Goodness knows why the people wanted this, but they did. The people further requested that the girl and her dad beMUSIC & COMEDY
Music & Comedy. I have written and recorded many “comedy” “songs” over the years, mostly between 1997 and 2005, many of them originally for The Garrens Comedy Troupe. The CDs I released — Snide Remarks (2000), Will Make Jokes for Food (2003), and Monkeys and Pirates Are Funny (2006) — don’t exist anymore (unless you havecopies
ERIC'S BAD MOVIES ARCHIVES May 20, 2013. Eric's Bad Movies. "Misbegotten" is a sleazy, stupid direct-to-video thriller from 1998 playing on the fears and insecurities of couples who have babies via artificial insemination from anonymous sperm donors. INFAMOUS - ERICDSNIDER.COM My heart goes out to Douglas McGrath. The writer/director was hard at work on "Infamous," telling the story of how Truman Capote researched his book "In Cold Blood," when he learned someone else was making a movie on the same subject -- a movie called "Capote," which would go on to win an Oscar and be nominated for four others. "Infamous" will forever be the also-ran, the follow-up. As it PAPER CLIPS (DOCUMENTARY) Paper Clips (documentary) By. Eric D. Snider. -. November 4, 2004. It was a middle school in tiny Whitwell, Tenn., that set out to collect 6 million paper clips to commemorate the 6 million Jews killed during the Nazi holocaust. The irony of such an act coming from the rural South is not lost on Whitwellians in “Paper Clips,” the TENTACLES - ERICDSNIDER.COM “Tentacles” is a cheap “Jaws” rip-off about a giant octopus. It was made at a time when everybody was trying to think of which giant sea creatures other than sharks could theoretically terrify moviegoers. It is not a good movie. But it’s hard to call it acomplete failure
BRIGHAM CITY
Brigham City. By. Eric D. Snider. -. April 6, 2001. Richard Dutcher’s much-anticipated follow-up to “God’s Army” is two things: a very bad murder mystery and a wonderfully moving spiritual drama. “Brigham City” is set in the fictional Utah town of Brigham (not Brigham City, which is a real place), a small suburb withtree-lined
ABDUCTION - ERICDSNIDER.COM Abduction. Released: September 23, 2011. As soon as plasticine llama-human hybrid Taylor Lautner became a household name in households where teenage girls live, the young “Twilight” star set out to prove that he can do more than take off his shirt and be the third wheel in an adolescent soap opera. To demonstrate this, he tookthe lead in
C.R.A.Z.Y. (FRENCH)
The internal struggle faced by young gay men who have old-fashioned religious beliefs has never been portrayed with as much charm, humor, compassion and imagination as in "C.R.A.Z.Y." Leave it to the French-Canadians! Set mostly in the 1970s, the film's focus is Zac, a teenager who wants nothing more than for God to stop him from being gay. His mother and father, meanwhile, devout Catholics DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? (2000) Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000) August 24, 2011. The age of irony and the Internet has brought us many marvelous things, among them the genre of Movies That Sell Themselves Completely on Their Titles. “Hobo with a Shotgun,” “Snakes on a Plane,” “Cowboys & Aliens” — half the fun (in some cases, all the fun) of movies likethose is
ANN LANDERS' FINAL COLUMN Ann Landers’ Final Column. July 17, 2002. Dear Ann Landers: My wife and I are expecting triplets. We were certain our family would rejoice with us, but we were wrong. The comments went like this: “You’re really going to have your hands full,” or “I hope you will haveplenty of help.”.
MOVIE REVIEWS BY ERIC D. SNIDERMOVIE REVIEWSSNIDE REMARKSERIC’S BAD MOVIESBLOGMISCELLANEOUSMUSIC & COMEDY Movie Reviews. According to the onscreen titles, "Sister Aimee" is "5 1/2 percent truth," the rest amusing, subversive, educated guesswork. What's definitely true is that in 1926, a charismatic evangelist,faith-hea
HAGAZUSSA (GERMAN)
Etymology time! “Hagazussa” (“hedge sitter”), an Old High German word that gave us witchy terms like “hag” and “hex,” refers to the old women who would sit near the hedges that separated cultivated land from wild forests, gathering herbs and such while the menfolk did agricultural labor. The movie called “Hagazussa” isabout a medieval
PAPER CLIPS (DOCUMENTARY) Paper Clips (documentary) By. Eric D. Snider. -. November 4, 2004. It was a middle school in tiny Whitwell, Tenn., that set out to collect 6 million paper clips to commemorate the 6 million Jews killed during the Nazi holocaust. The irony of such an act coming from the rural South is not lost on Whitwellians in “Paper Clips,” the AN AFFAIR OF LOVE (FRENCH) An Affair of Love (French) By. Eric D. Snider. -. August 11, 2000. The French title — “Une liaison pornographique” — may have been more titillating, but “An Affair of Love” is a more apt description of what goes on in this ultra-modern but sweetly old-fashioned love story. As recalled in separate interviews with thetwo participants
'NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN': THE STATUS OF MOSS By far the most thoughtful discussion I’ve ever seen on this website has been the one about “No Country for Old Men” (the best film of 2007, in my opinion). If you read the comments people have posted, you’ll see a variety of interpretations of the film’s 'NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN': BELL AND CHIGURH AND THE MOTEL Bell hurries to Moss’ hotel room, where a wounded Mexican is crawling away and where Moss lies dead just inside the door. It would appear the Mexicans arrived while Moss was still talking to the pool girl. Moss was carrying his rifle (in a case), so he was able to return fire on the Mexicans before fleeing to his room. INFAMOUS - ERICDSNIDER.COM My heart goes out to Douglas McGrath. The writer/director was hard at work on "Infamous," telling the story of how Truman Capote researched his book "In Cold Blood," when he learned someone else was making a movie on the same subject -- a movie called "Capote," which would go on to win an Oscar and be nominated for four others. "Infamous" will forever be the also-ran, the follow-up. As it SHE GETS WHAT SHE WANTS (NOTE: “She Gets What She Wants” was originally titled “Slap Her, She’s French” and was scheduled for a summer 2002 theatrical release. It was screened for critics about a month early, then pushed back to another date, and then another, and more and more, all because the distributor, The Premiere Group, was having financial troubles. HUNK - ERICDSNIDER.COM Hunk is the toast of the town. He has sex with as many women as he possibly can, which is many women indeed. He sets fashion trends by ripping the sleeves off his jacket and wearing it, bare-chested, with a popped collar and a necktie, as if he were both a Chippendale’s dancer and a douchebag. Life is great for Hunk-who-used-to-be-Bradley.BUTTERFLY (1982)
Butterfly (1982) Released: February 5, 1982. Give the people what they want! That is Hollywood’s mantra. In 1982, what people wanted was a gross story about a teenage harlot using her feminine wiles to seduce her own father. Goodness knows why the people wanted this, but they did. The people further requested that the girl and her dad be MOVIE REVIEWS BY ERIC D. SNIDERMOVIE REVIEWSSNIDE REMARKSERIC’S BAD MOVIESBLOGMISCELLANEOUSMUSIC & COMEDY Movie Reviews. According to the onscreen titles, "Sister Aimee" is "5 1/2 percent truth," the rest amusing, subversive, educated guesswork. What's definitely true is that in 1926, a charismatic evangelist,faith-hea
HAGAZUSSA (GERMAN)
Etymology time! “Hagazussa” (“hedge sitter”), an Old High German word that gave us witchy terms like “hag” and “hex,” refers to the old women who would sit near the hedges that separated cultivated land from wild forests, gathering herbs and such while the menfolk did agricultural labor. The movie called “Hagazussa” isabout a medieval
PAPER CLIPS (DOCUMENTARY) Paper Clips (documentary) By. Eric D. Snider. -. November 4, 2004. It was a middle school in tiny Whitwell, Tenn., that set out to collect 6 million paper clips to commemorate the 6 million Jews killed during the Nazi holocaust. The irony of such an act coming from the rural South is not lost on Whitwellians in “Paper Clips,” the AN AFFAIR OF LOVE (FRENCH) An Affair of Love (French) By. Eric D. Snider. -. August 11, 2000. The French title — “Une liaison pornographique” — may have been more titillating, but “An Affair of Love” is a more apt description of what goes on in this ultra-modern but sweetly old-fashioned love story. As recalled in separate interviews with thetwo participants
'NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN': THE STATUS OF MOSS By far the most thoughtful discussion I’ve ever seen on this website has been the one about “No Country for Old Men” (the best film of 2007, in my opinion). If you read the comments people have posted, you’ll see a variety of interpretations of the film’s 'NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN': BELL AND CHIGURH AND THE MOTEL Bell hurries to Moss’ hotel room, where a wounded Mexican is crawling away and where Moss lies dead just inside the door. It would appear the Mexicans arrived while Moss was still talking to the pool girl. Moss was carrying his rifle (in a case), so he was able to return fire on the Mexicans before fleeing to his room. INFAMOUS - ERICDSNIDER.COM My heart goes out to Douglas McGrath. The writer/director was hard at work on "Infamous," telling the story of how Truman Capote researched his book "In Cold Blood," when he learned someone else was making a movie on the same subject -- a movie called "Capote," which would go on to win an Oscar and be nominated for four others. "Infamous" will forever be the also-ran, the follow-up. As it SHE GETS WHAT SHE WANTS (NOTE: “She Gets What She Wants” was originally titled “Slap Her, She’s French” and was scheduled for a summer 2002 theatrical release. It was screened for critics about a month early, then pushed back to another date, and then another, and more and more, all because the distributor, The Premiere Group, was having financial troubles. HUNK - ERICDSNIDER.COM Hunk is the toast of the town. He has sex with as many women as he possibly can, which is many women indeed. He sets fashion trends by ripping the sleeves off his jacket and wearing it, bare-chested, with a popped collar and a necktie, as if he were both a Chippendale’s dancer and a douchebag. Life is great for Hunk-who-used-to-be-Bradley.BUTTERFLY (1982)
Butterfly (1982) Released: February 5, 1982. Give the people what they want! That is Hollywood’s mantra. In 1982, what people wanted was a gross story about a teenage harlot using her feminine wiles to seduce her own father. Goodness knows why the people wanted this, but they did. The people further requested that the girl and her dad beMUSIC & COMEDY
Music & Comedy. I have written and recorded many “comedy” “songs” over the years, mostly between 1997 and 2005, many of them originally for The Garrens Comedy Troupe. The CDs I released — Snide Remarks (2000), Will Make Jokes for Food (2003), and Monkeys and Pirates Are Funny (2006) — don’t exist anymore (unless you havecopies
ERIC'S BAD MOVIES ARCHIVES May 20, 2013. Eric's Bad Movies. "Misbegotten" is a sleazy, stupid direct-to-video thriller from 1998 playing on the fears and insecurities of couples who have babies via artificial insemination from anonymous sperm donors. INFAMOUS - ERICDSNIDER.COM My heart goes out to Douglas McGrath. The writer/director was hard at work on "Infamous," telling the story of how Truman Capote researched his book "In Cold Blood," when he learned someone else was making a movie on the same subject -- a movie called "Capote," which would go on to win an Oscar and be nominated for four others. "Infamous" will forever be the also-ran, the follow-up. As it PAPER CLIPS (DOCUMENTARY) Paper Clips (documentary) By. Eric D. Snider. -. November 4, 2004. It was a middle school in tiny Whitwell, Tenn., that set out to collect 6 million paper clips to commemorate the 6 million Jews killed during the Nazi holocaust. The irony of such an act coming from the rural South is not lost on Whitwellians in “Paper Clips,” the TENTACLES - ERICDSNIDER.COM “Tentacles” is a cheap “Jaws” rip-off about a giant octopus. It was made at a time when everybody was trying to think of which giant sea creatures other than sharks could theoretically terrify moviegoers. It is not a good movie. But it’s hard to call it acomplete failure
BRIGHAM CITY
Brigham City. By. Eric D. Snider. -. April 6, 2001. Richard Dutcher’s much-anticipated follow-up to “God’s Army” is two things: a very bad murder mystery and a wonderfully moving spiritual drama. “Brigham City” is set in the fictional Utah town of Brigham (not Brigham City, which is a real place), a small suburb withtree-lined
ABDUCTION - ERICDSNIDER.COM Abduction. Released: September 23, 2011. As soon as plasticine llama-human hybrid Taylor Lautner became a household name in households where teenage girls live, the young “Twilight” star set out to prove that he can do more than take off his shirt and be the third wheel in an adolescent soap opera. To demonstrate this, he tookthe lead in
C.R.A.Z.Y. (FRENCH)
The internal struggle faced by young gay men who have old-fashioned religious beliefs has never been portrayed with as much charm, humor, compassion and imagination as in "C.R.A.Z.Y." Leave it to the French-Canadians! Set mostly in the 1970s, the film's focus is Zac, a teenager who wants nothing more than for God to stop him from being gay. His mother and father, meanwhile, devout Catholics DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? (2000) Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000) August 24, 2011. The age of irony and the Internet has brought us many marvelous things, among them the genre of Movies That Sell Themselves Completely on Their Titles. “Hobo with a Shotgun,” “Snakes on a Plane,” “Cowboys & Aliens” — half the fun (in some cases, all the fun) of movies likethose is
ANN LANDERS' FINAL COLUMN Ann Landers’ Final Column. July 17, 2002. Dear Ann Landers: My wife and I are expecting triplets. We were certain our family would rejoice with us, but we were wrong. The comments went like this: “You’re really going to have your hands full,” or “I hope you will haveplenty of help.”.
MOVIE REVIEWS BY ERIC D. SNIDERMOVIE REVIEWSSNIDE REMARKSERIC’S BAD MOVIESBLOGMISCELLANEOUSMUSIC & COMEDYDR ERIC SCHNEIDERDR ERIC SCHNEIDER MAINEERIC SCHNEIDER ACTOR "The Glorias" is a biopic of Gloria Steinem and the women's movement up to the present day, with four actresses playing her at different ages: little girl, tween, young woman (she's Alicia Vikander thHAGAZUSSA (GERMAN)
Etymology time! “Hagazussa” (“hedge sitter”), an Old High German word that gave us witchy terms like “hag” and “hex,” refers to the old women who would sit near the hedges that separated cultivated land from wild forests, gathering herbs and such while the menfolk did agricultural labor. The movie called “Hagazussa” isabout a medieval
THE SALTON SEA
It’s about a man haunted by the death of his wife, and bent on revenging himself upon her killer. It begins at the end of the story, with the main character narrating and looking at a photograph. But it is not “Memento.” It’s about a man with at least two identitieswho has caused a
'NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN': BELL AND CHIGURH AND THE MOTELNO COUNTRY FOR OLD MENNO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN DREAMSNO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN FREENO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN FREE MOVIESNO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN MEANINGNOCOUNTRY FOR MEN
In a previous post, we talked about an element of “No Country for Old Men” that had led to misunderstandings. Now we address something where there truly are several possible explanations: Sheriff Bell and Anton Chigurh in the motel room. Were they there at the same time? What is the deal with that scene? First,LOVE HAPPENS
Oh, “Love Happens,” does it? Thanks, movie. Thanks for the evocative and powerful title. Way to show some effort in attracting an audience. Maybe you should have gone even more generic and called it “Two People Fall in Love.” I would definitely pay to see that movie!!!! “Love Happens” is a quasi-romantic pseudo-comedicsemi-drama starring
AN AFFAIR OF LOVE (FRENCH) The French title — “Une liaison pornographique” — may have been more titillating, but “An Affair of Love” is a more apt description of what goes on in this ultra-modern but sweetly old-fashioned love story. As recalled in separate interviews with the two participants, now broken up, we learn how He (Sergi Lopez) and She 'NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN': THE STATUS OF MOSS By far the most thoughtful discussion I’ve ever seen on this website has been the one about “No Country for Old Men” (the best film of 2007, in my opinion). If you read the comments people have posted, you’ll see a variety of interpretations of the film’s SHE GETS WHAT SHE WANTS (NOTE: “She Gets What She Wants” was originally titled “Slap Her, She’s French” and was scheduled for a summer 2002 theatrical release. It was screened for critics about a month early, then pushed back to another date, and then another, and more and more, all because the distributor, The Premiere Group, was having financial troubles. HUNK - ERICDSNIDER.COM There is an actor you have not heard of named John Allen Nelson who appeared in the TV soap operas “Loving” and “Santa Barbara” in the early 1980s, playing such men as Duke Rochelle and Warren Lockridge, whose names were taken from the book “1,001 Generic Soap Opera Character Names.” Like many men who appearBUTTERFLY (1982)
Give the people what they want! That is Hollywood’s mantra. In 1982, what people wanted was a gross story about a teenage harlot using her feminine wiles to seduce her own father. Goodness knows why the people wanted this, but they did. The people further requested that the girl and her dad be played by MOVIE REVIEWS BY ERIC D. SNIDERMOVIE REVIEWSSNIDE REMARKSERIC’S BAD MOVIESBLOGMISCELLANEOUSMUSIC & COMEDYDR ERIC SCHNEIDERDR ERIC SCHNEIDER MAINEERIC SCHNEIDER ACTOR "The Glorias" is a biopic of Gloria Steinem and the women's movement up to the present day, with four actresses playing her at different ages: little girl, tween, young woman (she's Alicia Vikander thHAGAZUSSA (GERMAN)
Etymology time! “Hagazussa” (“hedge sitter”), an Old High German word that gave us witchy terms like “hag” and “hex,” refers to the old women who would sit near the hedges that separated cultivated land from wild forests, gathering herbs and such while the menfolk did agricultural labor. The movie called “Hagazussa” isabout a medieval
THE SALTON SEA
It’s about a man haunted by the death of his wife, and bent on revenging himself upon her killer. It begins at the end of the story, with the main character narrating and looking at a photograph. But it is not “Memento.” It’s about a man with at least two identitieswho has caused a
'NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN': BELL AND CHIGURH AND THE MOTELNO COUNTRY FOR OLD MENNO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN DREAMSNO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN FREENO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN FREE MOVIESNO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN MEANINGNOCOUNTRY FOR MEN
In a previous post, we talked about an element of “No Country for Old Men” that had led to misunderstandings. Now we address something where there truly are several possible explanations: Sheriff Bell and Anton Chigurh in the motel room. Were they there at the same time? What is the deal with that scene? First,LOVE HAPPENS
Oh, “Love Happens,” does it? Thanks, movie. Thanks for the evocative and powerful title. Way to show some effort in attracting an audience. Maybe you should have gone even more generic and called it “Two People Fall in Love.” I would definitely pay to see that movie!!!! “Love Happens” is a quasi-romantic pseudo-comedicsemi-drama starring
AN AFFAIR OF LOVE (FRENCH) The French title — “Une liaison pornographique” — may have been more titillating, but “An Affair of Love” is a more apt description of what goes on in this ultra-modern but sweetly old-fashioned love story. As recalled in separate interviews with the two participants, now broken up, we learn how He (Sergi Lopez) and She 'NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN': THE STATUS OF MOSS By far the most thoughtful discussion I’ve ever seen on this website has been the one about “No Country for Old Men” (the best film of 2007, in my opinion). If you read the comments people have posted, you’ll see a variety of interpretations of the film’s SHE GETS WHAT SHE WANTS (NOTE: “She Gets What She Wants” was originally titled “Slap Her, She’s French” and was scheduled for a summer 2002 theatrical release. It was screened for critics about a month early, then pushed back to another date, and then another, and more and more, all because the distributor, The Premiere Group, was having financial troubles. HUNK - ERICDSNIDER.COM There is an actor you have not heard of named John Allen Nelson who appeared in the TV soap operas “Loving” and “Santa Barbara” in the early 1980s, playing such men as Duke Rochelle and Warren Lockridge, whose names were taken from the book “1,001 Generic Soap Opera Character Names.” Like many men who appearBUTTERFLY (1982)
Give the people what they want! That is Hollywood’s mantra. In 1982, what people wanted was a gross story about a teenage harlot using her feminine wiles to seduce her own father. Goodness knows why the people wanted this, but they did. The people further requested that the girl and her dad be played by ERIC'S BAD MOVIES ARCHIVES Weekly columns written 2008-2014 — the first 245 for Film.com, the last six for GeekNation. The point was to be funny rather than fair, and they’re full of spoilers, so I don’t consider them “reviews.” What do I consider them? Delightful. MISCELLANEOUS ARCHIVES MOVIES For a long time I've aimed to watch approximately one movie a day, averaging around 350 a year. In a typical year as a movie critic, about 200 of those were new releases, films that came out t THE BASKET - ERICDSNIDER.COM “The Basket” earnestly strives to be a family-friendly movie that teaches a nice lesson while entertaining its audience, all while avoiding profanity, sex or violence. And while it doesn’t succeed at being a particularly great piece of filmmaking, its sincerity and even-handedness make it a likable, pleasant movie to watch. Set in thepicturesque wheat
SHE GETS WHAT SHE WANTS (NOTE: “She Gets What She Wants” was originally titled “Slap Her, She’s French” and was scheduled for a summer 2002 theatrical release. It was screened for critics about a month early, then pushed back to another date, and then another, and more and more, all because the distributor, The Premiere Group, was having financial troubles. PAPER CLIPS (DOCUMENTARY) It was a middle school in tiny Whitwell, Tenn., that set out to collect 6 million paper clips to commemorate the 6 million Jews killed during the Nazi holocaust. The irony of such an act coming from the rural South is not lost on Whitwellians in “Paper Clips,” 'NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN': BELL AND CHIGURH AND THE MOTEL In a previous post, we talked about an element of “No Country for Old Men” that had led to misunderstandings. Now we address something where there truly are several possible explanations: Sheriff Bell and Anton Chigurh in the motel room. Were they there at the same time? What is the deal with that scene? First, INFAMOUS - ERICDSNIDER.COM My heart goes out to Douglas McGrath. The writer/director was hard at work on "Infamous," telling the story of how Truman Capote researched his book "In Cold Blood," when he learned someone else was making a movie on the same subject -- a movie called "Capote," which would go on to win an Oscar and be nominated for four others. "Infamous" will forever be the also-ran, the follow-up. As it TENTACLES - ERICDSNIDER.COM “Tentacles” is a cheap “Jaws” rip-off about a giant octopus. It was made at a time when everybody was trying to think of which giant sea creatures other than sharks could theoretically terrify moviegoers. It is not a good movie. But it’s hard to call it acomplete failure
ANN LANDERS' FINAL COLUMN I have no defense for this column other than I think it's a funny idea, trying to do your job right up to the very end. It is almost certainly in poor taste, and disrespectful to the dead and dying, and to "Ann Landers" (not her real name) specifically, and it contains no useful social commentary, which is what I would normally use to justify being distasteful. DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? (2000) The age of irony and the Internet has brought us many marvelous things, among them the genre of Movies That Sell Themselves Completely on Their Titles. “Hobo with a Shotgun,” “Snakes on a Plane,” “Cowboys & Aliens” — half the fun (in some cases,__
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TELL ME WHO I AM (DOCUMENTARY) B | Not-Rated | October 9, 2019Movie Reviews
"Tell Me Who I Am" belongs to the category of documentaries that are better enjoyed the less you know ahead of time. Netflix is a great home for these, as the 24/7 availability and near-zero cost make...JOJO RABBIT
B+ | PG-13 | October 4, 2019Movie
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The attention-grabbing pitch for "Jojo Rabbit" — a little German boy near the end of World War II has an imaginary friend, and it’s Hitler — is ultimately secondary in importance to the film’s morese...
SISTER AIMEE
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According to the onscreen titles, "Sister Aimee" is "5 1/2 percent truth," the rest amusing, subversive, educated guesswork. What's definitely true is that in 1926, a charismatic evangelist,faith-hea...
THE GOLDEN GLOVE (GERMAN) B | Not-Rated | September 27, 2019Movie Reviews
"The Golden Glove" is the remarkably unpleasant true story of a German serial killer in the 1970s, told with matter-of-fact, steely-eyed brutality by Turkish-German filmmaker Fatih Akin. JonasDassler...
DOWNTON ABBEY
B | PG | September 20, 2019Movie Reviews
I stopped watching "Downton Abbey" near the beginning of season 4, when a character was raped and I realized the show was just a regular ol' soap opera now. The "Downton Abbey" movie wasn't made for m...RAMBO: LAST BLOOD
D | R | September 20, 2019Movie Reviews
The Rambo franchise is about a U.S. veteran who keeps finding himself in situations where he has no choice but to kill dozens of foreigners. He's always just minding his own business, not killing anyb...SYNCHRONIC
B | Not-Rated | September 19, 2019Movie
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(Screened at Fantastic Fest; release TBA) Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead have been floating around the edges of indie sci-fi/horror for the last few years, writing and directing thoughtful under-...4×4 (SPANISH)
B | Not-Rated | September 19, 2019Movie Reviews
(Screened at Fantastic Fest; release TBA) A fully loaded SUV, parked on a Buenos Aires street, is the setting for "4x4," a "Saw"-inspired take on income inequality from Argentine director Mariano C... ONE CUT OF THE DEAD (JAPANESE) B+ | Not-Rated | September 13, 2019Movie
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(In theaters and on Shudder.) •••You can tell pretty quickly that something is up with "One Cut of the Dead." It starts in an old warehouse serving as the set of an amateurish, low-budget zombiemovie...
HUSTLERS
B+ | R | September 13, 2019Movie
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Jennifer Lopez, who turned 50 years old six weeks before "Hustlers" was released, enters the film on a stripper pole, flawlessly executing (without a body double) an astonishingly sexy routine before ...IT: CHAPTER TWO
C | R | September 6, 2019Movie Reviews
If the first half of the two-movie adaptation of Stephen King's "It" was more funhouse thrills than outright terror, "It: Chapter Two" leans even harder into that choice, yielding an epic-length but n...DON’T LET GO
C+ | R | August 30, 2019Movie
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David Oyelowo, the soulful actor who played Martin Luther King Jr. in "Selma" a few years ago, deserves mainstream success if he wants it, and tossing off a few crowd-pleasing potboilers might seem li...ANGEL HAS FALLEN
C- | R | August 23, 2019Movie Reviews
Gerard Butler is not good at anything, and it's time we stopped trying to make him be. He uses an American accent in almost every movie, yet is no better at it than he was 20 years ago. He is notconv...
TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID (SPANISH) A- | Not-Rated | August 21, 2019Movie
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(In theaters and on Shudder.) ••• A tough, beautiful urban fairy tale by Mexican writer-director Issa López, "Tigers Are Not Afraid" is a perfect example of how genre films can help us engagewith rea...
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B | R | August 21, 2019Movie
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It would be easy enough to make a horror movie out of the children's game hide-and-seek, just as it was no problem making one out of truth or dare last year. Making it into a good movie, though, takes...GOOD BOYS
B | R | August 16, 2019Movie
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The characters in "Good Boys" were born the year "Superbad" came out (this very weekend in 2007), so they probably don't realize they're living in a remake of it. The girls in "Booksmart" didn't know,... 47 METERS DOWN: UNCAGED C+ | PG-13 | August 16, 2019Movie
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Not having seen "47 Meters Down: Uncaged" is not a hindrance to understanding the sequel -- mistakenly titled "47 Meters Down: Uncaged" instead of "48 Meters Down" -- because the films have nothingto...
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I'll tell you what, the only thing a critic enjoys more than a good movie is a good movie that's a surprise. "The Angry Birds Movie" (2016) was a miserable affair reverse-engineered to explain why the... SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK B | PG-13 | August 9, 2019Movie Reviews
Though Alvin Schwartz's books were published between 1981 and 1991 and had timeless settings, the movie version of "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" is set in 1968 -- at Halloween, specifically, whi... THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN C | PG | August 9, 2019Movie Reviews
Life is a lot like racing cars, as you know if you read Garth Stein's dependably sappy novel "The Art of Racing in the Rain." The movie version, directed by Simon Curtis ("Goodbye Christopher Robin") ... DORA AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD B- | PG | August 9, 2019Movie Reviews
"Dora the Explorer," the educational animated TV show for preschoolers, gets a live-action movie adaptation that is, if not educational, at least harmless enough kiddie fare. Entitled "Dora andthe Lo...
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UPDATE: You're too late, they're gone. I'm moving back to Provo in early September. I love Portland, but I want to be near my Utah friends and my niecephews (and their parents, I guess). That's ... FAST & FURIOUS PRESENTS: HOBBS & SHAW C+ | PG-13 | August 2, 2019Movie Reviews
"Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw," a rare two-ampersand film, gives two of the supporting tough guys from the eight "Fast & Furious" movies their own blithe spinoff that keeps with t...AIRPLANE MODE
D+ | Not-Rated | August 2, 2019Movie Reviews
••• YouTube star Logan Paul assembled so many fellow YouTube stars to make "Airplane Mode" that it would be genuinely impressive if they were anyone but YouTube stars. Like, if you got this many famo...SHARE
B | Not-Rated | July 27, 2019Movie Reviews
••• Mandy, the high school basketball player at the center of "Share," starts the film by waking up on her front lawn -- not an auspicious way to start the day (or a movie). Played by excellentnewco...
ONCE UPON A TIME … IN HOLLYWOOD B+ | R | July 26, 2019Movie Reviews
There was cause for concern when Quentin Tarantino announced he was making a movie involving the Manson Family murders. It seemed likely, given QT's usual approach, that the result would be tacky and ... THE LION KING (2019) C | PG | July 19, 2019Movie Reviews
The idea behind this remake of "The Lion King" was to tell the same story but with real animals. That being impractical, however, they had to use computer-generated animals that merely look real and d...PURGE OF KINGDOMS
D- | R | July 19, 2019Movie Reviews
••• "Purge of Kingdoms" announces itself as "a pointless parody" of "Game of Thrones," which reminds me of a truism: Admitting you're terrible doesn't make you less terrible. Directed incompetentlyb...
CRAWL
B | R | July 12, 2019Movie Reviews
Alexandre Aja, director of grisly but mediocre fare like "High Tension" and the remake of "The Hills Have Eyes," has delivered a B-movie worthy of the label (and the grade) in "Crawl," which combines...
THE ART OF SELF-DEFENSE B | R | July 12, 2019Movie
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Jesse Eisenberg plays to his strengths in "The Art of Self-Defense," a deadpan comedy about a weak, timid, ineffectual dweeb named Casey (that's Eisenberg, obviously) who flirts with becoming an anger...STUBER
C+ | R | July 12, 2019Movie Reviews
"Stuber" is a familiar product -- a violent action comedy about a civilian who gets dragged into police work -- with a twist that's more depressing than was probably intended. Kumail Nanjiani plays th...MIDSOMMAR
B | R | July 3, 2019Movie
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If books could always be accurately judged by their covers, the bespectacled, unassuming Ari Aster would be an accountant or an I.T. guy, not the fever-brained lunatic behind the deeply unsettling hor... SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME B | PG-13 | July 2, 2019Movie
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"It's easy to fool people when they're already fooling themselves," says the villain in "Spider-Man: Far from Home," the first superhero movie to address life in the era of deepfake videos and daily g...YESTERDAY
C+ | PG-13 | June 28, 2019Movie
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"Yesterday," a song about regret over the way things turned out, is perfect for the movie "Yesterday," which should have been better. Written by romantic-comedy veteran Richard Curtis ("Notting Hill,"... ANNABELLE COMES HOME B | R | June 26, 2019Movie
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"Annabelle Comes Home" is part of the "Conjuring" franchise, but you don't need to have seen any of those movies (which also include "The Nun" and "The Curse of La Llorona") to understand what's going...TOY STORY 4
B | G | June 21, 2019Movie
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"Toy Story 3" was such a perfect culmination to the series that any "Toy Story 4" is going to be met with wariness. The "Toy Story 4" we got does nothing to allay those concerns -- it is, as expected,... CHILD’S PLAY (2019) C | R | June 21, 2019Movie Reviews
The remake of "Child's Play" was positioned to be one of the more logical reboots of recent years, until they did a bad job of it. The concept of a murderous doll (Cabbage Patch size, not Barbie) make...ANNA
C | R | June 21, 2019Movie Reviews
Noted French pervert Luc Besson ("The Fifth Element," "Lucy") is back with another story of a badass woman who happens to be everything a horny screenwriter could want her to be -- avidly bisexual, ea... MEN IN BLACK: INTERNATIONAL C | PG-13 | June 14, 2019Movie
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It takes considerable effort to render a pair as charismatic as Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson boring, but the makers of "Men in Black: International" are up to the task. This completely forgettab...SHAFT (2019)
D+ | R | June 14, 2019Movie
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The new "Shaft," starring Jessie T. Usher as anxious FBI data analyst John Shaft, is a direct sequel to the 2000 "Shaft," which starred Samuel L. Jackson as badass police detective John Shaft, who was... THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 2 B- | PG | June 7, 2019Movie
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Coming on the heels of its shaky predecessor, "The Secret Life of Pets 2" is a mild, playful surprise with the confidence of a long-running franchise. This week's other new movie, "Dark Phoenix,"feel...
DARK PHOENIX
C- | PG-13 | June 7, 2019Movie Reviews
After a while I started getting offended at how much "Dark Phoenix" assumed I remembered about the previous Teenage X-Men movies. Jean Grey (Sophie Turner), whose ill-defined powers include telekinesi... THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO B+ | R | June 7, 2019Movie Reviews
"The Last Black Man in San Francisco" sounds like a play on a science-fiction concept, but this gorgeously filmed semi-autobiographical story is grounded in all the realities of the modern, changing w...LATE NIGHT
C | R | June 7, 2019Movie Reviews
There are two things happening simultaneously for Katherine Newbury (Emma Thompson), the only female host in late night, in "Late Night," a mild satire written by Mindy Kaling. One is that she's being...ROCKETMAN
A- | R | May 31, 2019Movie
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Having seen your share of formulaic biopics, you brace yourself when the first scene of "Rocketman" has Elton John (Taron Egerton) in full concert regalia (orange bird-man costume with devil horns) st... GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS C | PG-13 | May 31, 2019Movie Reviews
"Godzilla: King of the Monsters" is a sequel to 2014's "Godzilla," though the only returning characters are the title abomination and a few ancillary figures played by Ken Watanabe, Sally Hawkins, and...MA
C+ | R | May 31, 2019Movie Reviews
While the category of "horror" is broad enough to include "Ma" (especially the last 20 minutes of it), you'll be disappointed if you're expecting anything scary or suspenseful. It's more of apsycholo...
STARFISH
B- | Not-Rated | May 28, 2019Movie Reviews
••• An apocalyptic event happens so subtly in "Starfish" that you almost don't notice it. The reasons for that are probably more practical than artistic -- it costs money to show widespreaddevastati...
ALADDIN (2019)
C | PG | May 24, 2019Movie
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The new "Aladdin," directed by English film lad Guy Ritchie ("Snatch"), is unnecessary even by the standards of unnecessary remakes. It has the exact same plot as the 1992 animated classic,slowed dow...
BOOKSMART
B+ | R | May 24, 2019Movie
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I'm sure the people who made "Booksmart" don't want it to be shorthanded into "'Superbad' for girls," but I'm equally sure that their hopes are in vain. If you don't want to be compared to"Superbad,"...
BRIGHTBURN
B- | R | May 24, 2019Movie
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As horror premises go, "What if Superman were a sociopath?" is among the best I've heard lately. "Brightburn," a scruffy, nasty, low-budget effort produced by "Guardians of the Galaxy" director James ... THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR B- | PG-13 | May 17, 2019Movie
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If Richard Linklater made a junior version of "Before Sunrise," it might look like "The Sun Is Also a Star," in which two teens meet and have only one day in which to fall in love before they go their... JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3 — PARABELLUM B | R | May 17, 2019Movie Reviews
John Wick's first line of dialogue in "John Wick: Chapter 3 -- Parabellum" is an instruction to a taxi driver: "The New York Public Library." How cool that an elite assassin is also a reader! Shortly...
TRIAL BY FIRE
C | R | May 17, 2019Movie Reviews
The true story that "Trial by Fire" is based on, told by David Grann in a 2009 New Yorker article, is fascinating and suspenseful, full of twists that make you reexamine your assumptions, but the movi...A DOG’S JOURNEY
B- | PG | May 17, 2019Movie Reviews
Stay with me here. "A Dog's Journey" is a sequel to "A Dog's Purpose" (2017), both based on novels by W. Bruce Cameron. They're similar to "A Dog's Way Home" (from earlier this year) but aren't connec... EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKINGLY EVIL AND VILE C | R | May 14, 2019Movie Reviews
••• It was inevitable that a former teen star from the Disney Channel would eventually play a serial killer, if not actually become one. Zac Efron, whose breakout performance in "High School Musical"... AMAZING GRACE (DOCUMENTARY) A- | G | May 10, 2019Movie
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"Amazing Grace," Aretha Franklin's 1972 double-album of gospel songs, was the top-selling record of her career and the bestselling live gospel album of all time. (There might have been more live gospe... POKEMON: DETECTIVE PIKACHU C+ | PG | May 10, 2019Movie
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As neither a child of the '90s, a current child, or a person who has ever played Pokemon, I am not the target audience for "Pokemon: Detective Pikachu," a kid-focused, live-action PG adventure that as...POMS
D | PG-13 | May 10, 2019Movie Reviews
I appreciate it when movies are short, especially bad movies like "Poms." But "Poms" would have been better if it had taken more time to establish the characters and their motivations -- if it had act...THE HUSTLE
B- | PG-13 | May 10, 2019Movie
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The story and premise of "The Hustle" are so elegant in their simplicity that it's no surprise this film has already been made twice: first as "Bedtime Story" (1964), with Marlon Brando and DavidNive...
WINE COUNTRY
B- | R | May 8, 2019Movie Reviews
••• The premise behind "Wine Country" is that "SNL" alumnae Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, and Ana Gasteyer, and "SNL" writers Paula Pell and Emily Spivey, wanted to make a movie wherethe...
LONG SHOT
B+ | R | May 3, 2019Movie
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"Long Shot" has the skeleton of a romantic comedy, but the flesh on those bones has a lot of flavors: political satire, odd-couple comedy, celebrity culture, and '90 nostalgia, to name a few. The scre...THE INTRUDER
C | PG-13 | May 3, 2019Movie Reviews
The only way to enjoy "The Intruder," a mediocre domestic thriller with a plot that's entirely predictable (and totally spelled out in the trailer) is to pretend it has more subtext than it does. View...UGLYDOLLS
C+ | PG | May 3, 2019Movie
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The main purpose of the animated "UglyDolls" film is to make viewers aware that there is a line of plush toys called UglyDolls that they can buy. In that sense, the movie is a rousing success. No one ...AVENGERS: ENDGAME
B | PG-13 | April 26, 2019Movie Reviews
(Note: I'm going out of my way not to "spoil" anything here, including things that happen within the first 20-30 minutes that would normally be fair game in a review. You're welcome, nerds.) When w...I TRAPPED THE DEVIL
B- | Not-Rated | April 26, 2019Movie
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••• Full disclosure: One of the producers of this film, Scott Weinberg, is a longtime friend and colleague, and writer-director Josh Lobo is a pal I've socialized with at film festivals. Honestly,...FAMILY
B | R | April 19, 2019Movie Reviews
"Family," a sunny and likable small-scale comedy from first-time filmmaker Laura Steinel, belongs to the subcategory of movies in which bad role models and hopeless kids are paired up so they can lear... THE CURSE OF LA LLORONA C | R | April 19, 2019Movie
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Like most movies, "The Curse of La Llorona" is part of the extended "Conjuring" universe. The connection is negligible -- the older priest in this one had an encounter with the evil doll in "The Conju...HAGAZUSSA (GERMAN)
B | Not-Rated | April 19, 2019Movie
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••• Etymology time! “Hagazussa” (“hedge sitter”), an Old High German word that gave us witchy terms like “hag” and “hex,” refers to the old women who would sit near the hedges that separated cultivat...LITTLE
C | PG-13 | April 12, 2019Movie
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Here's an amusing coincidence. "Little," which is a reversal of the Tom Hanks classic "Big," was written by Tina Gordon Chism, who also wrote "What Men Want," a reversal of "What Women Want." Chism's ...MISSING LINK
B- | PG | April 12, 2019Movie
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"Missing Link" is Laika's fifth gorgeously detailed work of stop-motion animation and the fourth to leave me kind of cold. Only the studio's debut, "Coraline," had the intended impact; "ParaNorman,""...
WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY B | PG-13 | April 12, 2019Movie
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There are two things I know about Emily Dickinson: She was a reclusive spinster, and many of her poems can be sung to the tune of "Yellow Rose of Texas." The second thing, which is definitely true,is...
HELLBOY (2019)
C- | R | April 12, 2019Movie
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The R-rated "Hellboy" is a comedically gory but otherwise not particularly funny reboot of the comic book character (previously brought to PG-13-rated life by Ron Perlman and director Guillermo delTo...
NATIVE SON
B- | Not-Rated | April 7, 2019Movie
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••• Little had to be changed about the plot of Richard Wright’s 1940 novel "Native Son" to make it work with an adaptation set in the present, but something must have been lost in translation.As dir...
THE BEST OF ENEMIES
C+ | PG-13 | April 5, 2019Movie
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Hollywood continues to solve racism one bigot at a time with "The Best of Enemies," a shiny, shallow trinket based on true events that, in the hands of first-time feel-good filmmaker Robin Bissell, se...UNPLANNED
C- | R | April 5, 2019Movie
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The interesting thing about anti-abortion propaganda film "Unplanned" is how little it tries to persuade anyone of anything. Preaching to the choir, it presupposes that everyone already agrees abortio...PET SEMATARY
C+ | R | April 5, 2019Movie Reviews
The whole point of "Pet Sematary" -- both Stephen King's 1983 novel and the effective 1989 movie version -- is that you shouldn't revive the dead because they won't be the same when they come back. (I...SHAZAM!
B- | PG-13 | April 5, 2019Movie Reviews
Despite their adventures ostensibly being aimed at kids, most superheroes aren't children themselves. Except for the Spider-Men and occasional moments with the younger X-Persons, we rarely see asuper...
DUMBO (2019)
D+ | PG | March 29, 2019Movie
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The self-cannibalization at Disney continues with "Dumbo," a turgid, labored, bloated live-action remake of the 1941 animated classic with precisely none of the original's emotion, charm, or joy. Why ...THE BEACH BUM
C | R | March 29, 2019Movie Reviews
The title character in "The Beach Bum," a stoner-poet named Moondog, is the part Matthew McConaughey was born to play, and he is indeed at his McConaughey-est here: grinning, giggling, pontificating, ...US
B | R | March 22, 2019Movie Reviews
Jordan Peele, the newly minted horror auteur behind "Get Out," gives us a lot to process in the early minutes of his follow-up, the suspenseful and more overtly horrific "Us." We're told of a network...
HOTEL MUMBAI
B | R | March 22, 2019Movie Reviews
The title character in "Hotel Mumbai" is actually called the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, or the Taj for short, and it was one of a dozen Mumbai locations attacked by Islamic terrorists on November 26, 200...RELAXER
B+ | Not-Rated | March 22, 2019Movie Reviews
One thing you can say for sure about "Relaxer": There will never be a gender-swapped remake of it. The story, first juvenile and then surreal, only makes sense in the context of men's craving for comp...CAPTIVE STATE
B | PG-13 | March 15, 2019Movie Reviews
"Captive State" is geeky, serious sci-fi told with a straight face and no comic relief. This is essential because, like most geeky sci-fi, it's a hair's breadth from cheesiness: A few missteps andthe...
WONDER PARK
D+ | PG | March 15, 2019Movie
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The setting of "Wonder Park," a goopy pile of trash made by a third-tier animation studio, is an amusement park called ... Wonderland. Why isn't the movie called "Wonderland"? Probably becausethere a...
FIVE FEET APART
B- | PG-13 | March 15, 2019Movie Reviews
The disease in "Five Feet Apart," the latest romantic drama about two teens in love where at least one of them has an incurable disease, is cystic fibrosis, and they both have it. They meet in the hos...CAPTAIN MARVEL
B- | PG-13 | March 8, 2019Movie Reviews
Many of the people seeing "Captain Marvel" (myself included) won't know anything about the character going in except that she's from Marvel Comics and that you'd think she'd be a bigger deal given tha...LEVEL 16
B | Not-Rated | March 1, 2019Movie Reviews
••• The plucky, rough-around-the-edges Canadian thriller "Level 16" is a "Black Mirror"-lite story about teenage girls being trained in a creepy, militaristic sort of finishing school called the Vest... A MADEA FAMILY FUNERAL D | PG-13 | March 1, 2019Movie
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"A Madea Family Funeral" is typical of Tyler Perry's Madea series: excruciating and baffling with occasional flecks of bemusement at how misguided it is; garishly lit and cheap-looking, like it was sh...GIANT LITTLE ONES
B- | R | March 1, 2019Movie Reviews
Coming-out stories have become common enough that movies are starting to tell them with nuance. The "Am I gay?" question no longer has only two possible answers; there's a whole spectrum, as 17-year-o...GRETA
C | R | March 1, 2019Movie Reviews
We're so accustomed to stalker movies now that they can be told in shorthand. "Greta" is a too-efficient example of this, in addition to being a cautionary tale about why you should never do something... NEW PERK FOR PATRONS: INSTANT MOVIE REVIEWS!February 27, 2019
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Hello friends and strangers! Thanks for reading my word piles about movies. In May I will have been a Serious Film Critic for 20 years, and later in 2019 I'll write my 4,000th review. Four thousand... THE HOLE IN THE GROUND B | R | February 26, 2019Movie
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••• In the loudly menacing "The Hole in the Ground," a solid debut from Irish director Lee Cronin, young mother Sarah (Seána Kerslake) and her son, Chris (James Quinn Markey), have just moved toan i...
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD B- | PG | February 22, 2019Movie Reviews
I loved the first two animated adventures about the Viking boy and his fire-breathing friend, but "How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World" falls a bit flat. Maybe too much time has passed? It's be...DONNYBROOK
B | R | February 15, 2019Movie
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••• Despite its happy, Irish-sounding title, "Donnybrook" is bleak misery porn about meth and meth-adjacent Midwesterners scrambling to survive and/or kill each other. It's compelling stuff,written ...
MEGA TIME SQUAD
B | Not-Rated | February 15, 2019Movie Reviews
••• We in the Northern Hemisphere have this image of New Zealand as Australia's sillier, goofier neighbor. "Mega Time Squad" does nothing to dispel that impression, being a manic, light-heartedcomed...
FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY B- | PG-13 | February 14, 2019Movie
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"Fighting with My Family" would be nothing more than a routine underdog sports story if it hadn't been written and directed by Stephen Merchant, the gangly Englishman responsible for most of thefunny...
ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL
C+ | PG-13 | February 14, 2019Movie Reviews
"Alita: Battle Angel," directed by Robert Rodriguez and co-written and produced by James Cameron, marks the first time the two filmmakers have collaborated. You can see Cameron's influence in the way ...HAPPY DEATH DAY 2U
B | PG-13 | February 13, 2019Movie Reviews
When we last saw plucky college student Tree Gelbman (Jessica Rothe), at the end of 2017's serviceable genre exercise "Happy Death Day," she had unmasked her killer and broken the time loop that was c...ISN’T IT ROMANTIC
B | PG-13 | February 13, 2019Movie Reviews
The premise of "Isn't It Romantic" is similar to last year's "I Feel Pretty" in that both involve blondes getting bonked on the head and waking up in a fantasy version of Manhattan. In "I Feel Pretty,...Load more__
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