I love shark movies, and I’ve been looking forward to this one for a long time. The mere idea of carcharodon megalodon is exciting, if terrifying, to me, and I’m amazed that no major movie until now has ever dared to […]
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The Equalizer 2 (2018) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Denzel Washington doesn’t do sequels. Until now. Actually, that is rare, these days, in an actor of his stature, and quite admirable. I’m sure he took the role of Robert McCall again because this story delves into McCall’s past, helping […]
Continue reading »Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Marvel’s presentation of the superhero Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) in the few movies in which he has appeared denotes, to my mind, the best and the worst of the genre. The best is a highly clever, sometimes hugely entertaining adventure with […]
Continue reading »Three Identical Strangers (2018) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
I’m not a big documentary fan; I seem to prefer made-up stories, ones that can be manipulated to make points or showcase action that documents that reflect real life rarely can. But many documentaries find aspects about our world that […]
Continue reading »Leave No Trace (2018) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
This quiet little film surprised me with its depth and perception, especially after I hated the director’s earlier drama, Winter’s Bone. Here, psychological tension simmers beneath the surface in most every scene, yet it is kept in check rather than exploited. […]
Continue reading »Deadpool 2 (2018) ☆ ☆
For years I have railed against bloated action movies with incessant destruction, annoying characters and gratuitous violence, especially if the tone is that the violence is comic, unreal or unimportant. Deadpool 2 is such a movie. Most of the time it […]
Continue reading »Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
As much as I liked Jurassic World three years ago (☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2), I think this sequel is even better. Perhaps oddly, it isn’t that the new film’s individual sequences are better (I don’t think they are), but that its grasp and […]
Continue reading »Incredibles 2 (2018) ☆ ☆ ☆
Among my favorite Pixar films is The Incredibles (2004), for which I awarded a four star rating. Fourteen years later, a belated sequel is finally here, taking place immediately after the end of the first film. The story continues the theme […]
Continue reading »Ocean’s Eight (2018) ☆ ☆ ☆
All-star caper films still occur with regularity, the most recent being Logan Lucky, but this is the first one I recall with an all-female crew. It follows Steven Soderbergh’s trilogy about Danny Ocean and his cohorts; Soderbergh executive produces this one, […]
Continue reading »The Seagull (2018) ☆ ☆
Anton Chekhov’s play “The Seagull” is an acclaimed classic — despite a debut performance in 1896 that was roundly booed and convinced the author to forego his writing for a time — and has been translated into several films, including […]
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