All About Nina movie review: a woman owning her anger
Hail Mary, full of rage. Mary Elizabeth Winstead is utterly incendiary in this own-worst-enemy dramedy that gender-flips a tired genre to give angry new voice to a woman speaking her own truths.
Common
A Happening of Monumental Proportions movie review: no, honey, no
The title is intentionally ironic, and yet still feels like a bad and desperately unfunny joke. The spectacular all-star cast holds their noses and gamely dives in anyway, for the sake of Judy Greer’s directorial debut.
my picks for tonight’s 90th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2017’s films) (winners indicated)
I correctly guessed 15 out of the 24 categories, which is one of my better showings ever, I think.
Run All Night movie review: bloody bromance breakup
Too long and too same-old, and even Liam Neeson’s effortless tough-guy charm can only carry this familiar-feeling film so far.
Just Wright (review)
A tepid, almost conflict-free romantic drama that takes no chances whatsoever. Still: Queen Latifah!
new this week in U.S., Canadian, and U.K. theaters: ‘Robin Hood,’ ‘Just Wright,’ ‘Letters to Juliet,’ ‘Lebanon,’ more (with DVD alternatives)
(It will look here like I’m trying to condense a lot of stuff — my “week at the movies” posts, my “DVD alts” posts — into one package, and that isn’t quite the case. Or maybe it is. Bear with me as I try to figure out what the hell I’m doing and what the … more…
