Christmas Weekend Movies: Why, Oh Why?
As if the holiday season weren’t busy enough on its own, Hollywood decided to cram four big new movie releases and six Oscar-contenders at us. Merry Christmas!
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‘Hidden Figures’ Review: Soft Sell Inspiration
‘Hidden Figures’ is a nice movie, a sweet movie, an inspiring movie, an Oscar movie. It’s destined to make people in mall movie theaters across the land smile. It will be shown in history classes on days when tea...
‘Why Him?’ Review: Charming Bickering
‘Why Him?’ isn’t exactly the most creative comedy to come along in a while. In-laws feuding with young lovers is a comedy cliché that dates back to around the time someone first noticed slipping on a banana peel ...
‘Sing’ Review: Contagiously Cute
‘Sing’ is about as good as a movie about a bunch of cute CGI animals hosting a singing competition could possibly be. This is base level animated family comedy stuff, filled with celebrity voice acting and more pop cul...
‘Assassin’s Creed’ Review: A Masterfully Murky
They say that if at first you don’t succeed, you should try, try again. That seems to be Hollywood’s motto for videogame movies. There’s yet to be a great one, or even a particularly good one. Now we have ‘...
‘Passengers’ Review: A Waste of a Trip
At about an hour or so into ‘Passengers’, you might start to wonder why this sci-fi Christmas blockbuster headlined by possibly the two most beloved movie stars on the planet hit screens with such lackluster hype and c...
‘La La Land’ Review: Love, Song, Dance, Joy
Full disclosure: I generally don’t like musicals. They’re too artificial, too stylized, too overblown, too sweet, and mostly just too nice for me. When ‘La La Land’ was hyped up like nobody’s business...
Weekend Box Office: One with the Force
The Force has awoken. Again. If Disney can keep it up, it will continue to do so each year until the well has entirely dried up – but that’s not likely to happen in the foreseeable future. As ‘Star Wars’ was clea...
‘Neruda’ Review: A Chilly Chilean Bio
Director Pablo Larrain sure was feeling the bio-pic this year. He not only made his English language debut with the Natalie Portman headlined ‘Jackie’, but also delivered a much more personal effort in his native Chile...
Weekend Movies: Collateral Damage
What happens when you open a star-studded Christmas drama against one of the most anticipated movies of the year? I don’t know the specifics, but it certainly won’t be pretty.
‘Collateral Beauty’ Review: Christmas Crapola
There must be another movie that wastes a talented cast as thoroughly as ‘Collateral Beauty’ does, but it’s really hard to think of one. The film desperately wants to be a new ‘It’s a Wonderful Life&#...
‘Sadie’s Last Days on Earth’ Review: Apocalypse
Did you know that being a teenager comes with overblown emotions? Well, how about this: an apocalyptic teen comedy – the usual high school giggly fun time only with that apocalypse thing to serve as a minor metaphor for all those ...