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.