
2018 Webby Award winners (which I help pick)
A brief rundown of some of the film- and TV-related winners…
handcrafted film criticism by maryann johanson | since 1997
A brief rundown of some of the film- and TV-related winners…
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Leaden and witless, though it obviously believes there is humor in its loud, chaotic juvenility. It would be an insult to cartoons to call this cartoonish.
Women are necessary and present only for how the male protagonist feels about them, and how these feelings motivate him to do things for himself.
It looks lovely and Ian McKellen is amazing, of course, but it’s not very Holmesian. I suspect Holmes himself would snort in derision at its sentimentality.
Might be interesting if it had enough passion and guts to take a stand, but ends up in the mushy middle of the road, which surely sprang from a desire to be “fair” and “balanced.”
A mealy, wan attempt at a black comedy.
Two separate tales of FDR that are certainly worthy of in-depth explorations on their own are mashed together in a way that is ridiculous and which gives both of them a short shift that neither deserves.
I’m gonna hope that perhaps the fantastic cast here will make yet one more tale of a man fucking up endurable.
Is there sweet? Absolutely. But it is cut with funny: sometimes wicked, sometimes manic, often hysterical, always clever funny. And a whole lotta poignant, too.