Tag: Hailee Steinfeld

Buzzing Bumblebee’s success is easy to chart. For one, it’s less than two hours rather than the tiring, overlong mainline films in the Transformers series. And second, it’s self-mocking. …

Look out! Here comes a reference disc On the surface, Into the Spider-Verse is that typical comic book movie. Super villain Wilson Fisk creates a doomsday device, Spider-Man finds …

Edge of Perfection Every generation has coming of age films, some more than others (thanks John Hughes). When these films work, they’re absolute magic. That’s Edge of Seventeen. A …

Policy Cancelled Vince Vaughn spends much of Term Life scared of being seen. Supposedly, Vaughn runs from killers and criminals trying to track him down. More likely, Vaughn’s terrified …

Barely interesting Barely Lethal satirizes the effect of media on impressionable youth. How those fluffy teen high school romance dramas mask the realities of real relationships. How TV slants …

Uneven tonalities either perk up this script or sink it depending on perspective, although the bravery of the mix & match is a reprieve from morose action.

Ender's Game becomes a film which is both too fast and too slow, projecting cliff notes in a rush to embellish screens with dizzying zero gravity training spectacles.

He needs to have true grit; she needs to have a headstrong spunk. They're a perfect match.