Morgan movie review: AI why?
Eschewing the compelling SF questions it raises, Morgan resorts to violence and would-be cleverness, and makes concrete what it should have left ambiguous.
Paul Giamatti
Ratchet & Clank movie review: wretched and junk
Could have been assembled entirely from clips from other movies — mostly the Star Wars prequels — and would have been better if it had been.
Love & Mercy movie review: strange vibrations
Intense, unconventional, often uncomfortable portrait of Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson that transcends the typical clichés about madness and creativity.
things I learned from this summer’s movies
Important life lessons, everyone…
Straight Outta Compton movie review: men’s anger, but only when it makes them righteous
The seething rage radiating from the screen elevates this above similar movies. But that rage is truncated in ways that are hard to ignore.
San Andreas movie review: 9.6 on the Ridiculous Scale
Cornball disaster-porn melodrama… in 3D! Dumb, insulting, and bloodless. It’s Hollywood’s subconscious death wish brought to life, in more ways than one.
Ernest & Celestine review: bear and mouse are friends
Might be the most ridiculously cute movie I’ve ever seen, in a way that transforms adorableness into something honest and wise and deeply satisfying.
Parkland review (London Film Festival)
This poignant and painful ensemble drama about the lesser-known figures caught up in the JFK assassination reminds us that history happens to regular people, too.
cannot contain my excitement for the London Film Festival
I’m hyperventilating from the array of overwhelming movie awesomeness before me.
Saving Mr. Banks trailer: Tom Hanks as Walt Disney? oh my god yes
Also: Emma Thompson and Paul Giamatti in anything, obviously.
