Our annual January / February visit with Liam Neeson on the big screen hasn’t always resulted in fabulous films, but The Marksman is pretty good. It’s certainly a step above Cold Pursuit, Taken 3 or Non-Stop (I missed The Silence and The Commuter). It’s the […]
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The King of Staten Island (2020) ☆ ☆
I feel obliged to confess that one of my weaknesses in movie criticism is an aversion to certain lead characters who I feel are so flawed that they don’t deserve to be in movies. Now I know that is nonsense; […]
Continue reading »Fantasy Island (2020) ☆ ☆
I’m still making the effort to catch up with 2020 releases that I missed the first time around. One of those is the Sony / Blumhouse offering Fantasy Island. This is a horror-oriented remake of the old romantic TV series (1977-), […]
Continue reading »News of the World (2020) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
Writer-director Paul Greengrass and star Tom Hanks have excellent track records for quality filmmaking, so it is really no surprise that their newest film, News of the World, is very good. No, the big surprise is in the form of […]
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I love Gal Gadot as Diana Prince / Wonder Woman, and it is nice to see movies that feature females that are strong and smart as well as sexy (Gadot’s Diana is certainly all three). That’s why it’s such a […]
Continue reading »The Lost Husband (2020) ☆ ☆ ☆
My suspicion is that The Lost Husband (a poor title for this movie) is similar in subject and tone to a few (or perhaps a host of) made-for-cable-television movies about recovery from widowhood or divorce — yet that would be […]
Continue reading »Fatale (2020) ☆ 1/2
You might think that a timely suspense film starring two-time Hilary Swank would be a pretty good bet — but you would be wrong. This slowly-paced thriller contains very few thrills, not enough sexual heat, red herring scenes of violence […]
Continue reading »Monster Hunter (2020) ☆ ☆
I should have known I was watching a Paul W. S. Anderson movie within a few minutes, but I didn’t realize it until the end credit roll. Then it made more sense. Paul W. S. Anderson is a writer and […]
Continue reading »The Croods: A New Age (2020) ☆ ☆ ☆
When I reviewed The Croods back in 2013, I called it “critic proof,” which meant that it had elements that would prove popular enough to overcome negative criticism. It was just that type of movie. So is the sequel, which […]
Continue reading »Half Brothers (2020) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Dramatically, this movie is all over the map. It’s a sentimental story, interrupted with slapstick comedy, solemn references to American racism, knowing familial strife and shattered dreams. It really ought to be much darker than it is, because much of […]
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