film criticism by maryann johanson | celebrating 25 years: 1997–2022
No movie has ever been higher-concept than this: Today-aged Will Smith versus CGI-young Will Smith! It’s the future of film in an anemic, tedious, ironically dated spy-action shell. Bafflingly awful.
I am looking at you, Game of Thrones. (But not you alone.)
May well be the most solidly confident storytelling I’ve seen on television, perhaps ever…
Yes, this is a movie about our soldiers today in Iraq and Afghanistan. Deal with it.
Sometimes junk food is soul food, and sometimes junk movies are yummy and satisfying (and never mind the bellyache later).
