
Cyrano movie review: out of tune
Peter Dinklage is wonderful, but this feels like a suggestion of a movie, not an actual one. It’s not romantic; there’s no humor, no absurdity. Its unpleasantness is as puzzling as it is inescapable.

Peter Dinklage is wonderful, but this feels like a suggestion of a movie, not an actual one. It’s not romantic; there’s no humor, no absurdity. Its unpleasantness is as puzzling as it is inescapable.
And the winners are…
Adam Sandler imagines himself as the savior of the planet. And then it gets even more puffed up with arrogance and all manner of masturbatory fantasy.

With its time-twisting plot, sci-fi soapiness, powerful humanism, and to-die-for cast, this is the summer blockbuster done with elegance and heart.

Supernatural slasher haunts a live-action role-playing game. The cast is clearly having fun, but none of it rubs off on us.

Oh, Peter Dinklage: why?

Ack! I still haven’t seen Season 3!

So, Logan is going to be quantum-leaped back in time to bring hope to young Charles Xavier? Maybe they should send someone cheerier instead…
Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…
It’s movies like this one that make me despair. Because it is going to make a bazillion bucks at the box office around the world, and there’s absolute nothing here that warrants such success.