Tag: Marisa Tomei

Equal parts manic and hilarious, The Paper brilliantly captures the American newspaper's last moments before the digital age.

Fan service won't sustain Spider-Man: No Way Home long term, but it's an emotionally powerful and nuanced take on being a superhero that will last.

Boh Bringing a story of self-doubt and identity to Marvel’s storyline, the second stand-alone Spider-Man has a lot of fun (too much arguably) selling action in droves, with the …

Tingles If the Marvel movie-verse is considered a single entity – one 50+ hour movie – then Spider-Man: Far From Home is effectively the post-credit sequence. It’s a little …

Does Whatever a High Schooler Can Peter Parker battles high school awkwardness as much as he does his nemesis Vulture in Homecoming. The key is awkwardness – not gloom, …

A Worldwide Meltdown Made Entertaining Financial collapse was looming prior to the economic meltdown in 2008 – ineptitude, smugness, and blind arrogance caused it. Those are qualities essential to …

Only a little need for a rewrite A script writer writing about a writer who writes – The Rewrite. If The Rewrite is not entirely a self-expressive piece, then …

There is a message in Parental Guidance, although what it is depends on your viewpoint. If you are a parent and try raising your kids strictly, chance are you’re …

Everything here is a game, a play on words, a manipulative deal, or a planned process. Nothing happens by accident.

In other words, thank you Crazy, Stupid, Love for shattering pre-conceived notions of highly budgeted romanticized farces.

It's tight, restricted, and appropriately stuffy, a film rife with intensity and glamorous photography even if it's not picturing the best side of humanity

Over time, one can hope that the awards, healthy praise, and hype can make Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler the classic it deserves. For whatever reason, the years other critical …