Sinister 2 movie review: baloney Boogeyman
Disjointed, incohesive, and psychologically ridiculous. And actually repulsive on multiple levels in ways that the first film was not.
fantasy
Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism movie review: you are getting very angry…
This desperately terrible children’s fantasy is an unpleasant mishmash of dated slapstick, unwittingly sinister adventure, and icky magic.
Inside Out movie review: all the feels
There is joy and wonder in this marvelous mounting of a human mind, and a thrilling audacity in how it dares at such a strange and impossible thing.
Minions movie review: the curtain of yellow mystique falls
I love the Minions and I thought they totally deserved their own movie. But I was wrong. Or, at least, this movie is not the movie they deserve.
The Lazarus Effect movie review: flatlined horror
This is a remarkably inert movie: unscary, unexciting, and so obvious that it announces how obvious it is going to be in advance.
Second Coming movie review: mother of all pregnancies
Leaves no doubt that its central supernatural event is 100% real, yet it makes absolutely no case for it whatsoever, and refuses to even engage with it.
Strange Magic movie review: bad spell
Apparently this was inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but it has about as much in common with that as Burger King does with Macbeth.
Moomins on the Riviera movie review: really old-fashioned adventure
The hand-drawn animation is serene and charming, but the story and characters are so unpleasantly retrograde that I found little enjoyment here.
Poltergeist movie review: they’re here (remakes, that is)
If you have any inclination to see this, just rewatch the original. You will lose nothing, and you’ll have a far better time.
Two by Two: Ooops… The Ark Has Gone (aka Two by Two: God’s Little Creatures, aka All Creatures Big and Small) movie review: global apocalypse, you know, for kids
This spectacularly ill-conceived movie is what happens when a cheap ripoff cannot even rise to the level of crass Hollywood junk.
