Jonah Hill & Eddie Murphy’s Comedic Chops Can’t Save A Corny, Superficial Family Comedy

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Jonah Hill & Eddie Murphy’s Comedic Chops Can’t Save A Corny, Superficial Family Comedy

How do you make the norm abnormal for the sake of comedy? Interracial/mixed-race families are so ordinary these days (I’m part of one as we speak), but comedy often has to exaggerate our differences to strike at deep laughs that…

Gael García Bernal Shines in Lucha Libre Biopic

Home Movie Reviews ‘Cassandro' Review: Gael García Bernal Shines in Lucha Libre Biopic | Sundance 2023 Bernal is a blast both in and out of the ring in this look at the life of exótico Saúl Armendáriz. Image via Sundance…

Quiet Family Drama With Great David Strathairn

Home Movie Reviews ‘A Little Prayer' Review: Quiet Family Drama Features an Excellent David Strathairn | Sundance 2023 Angus MacLachlan's newest film also stars Anna Camp, Will Pullen, and Jane Levy, in her best performance yet. Image via Sundance When…

A Thousand and One | Film Threat

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! A Thousand and One, the debut feature by writer-director A.V. Rockwell, is set in 1993, New York. We first meet Inez (Teyana Taylor), a strong-headed, fierce, and determined 22-year-old hairdresser being freshly released from Rikers…

Kenneth Dagatan’s WWII Fairy Tale Features A Wicked Morality Not For The Faint Of Heart [Sundance]

The opening scene of Kenneth Dagatan’s sophomore feature, “In My Mother’s Skin,” promises the audience each of the horror genre’s grisliest thrills: The squelching sounds of oozing blood, the sight of flesh-ripping carnage in progress as well as in past…

Magic Mike’s Last Dance Review

It’s been over a decade since the first Magic Mike, which I blindly went into under the assumption that it was a basketball movie. You can imagine my surprise when male strippers were handing out condoms at the advance screening.…

Two Sisters Take On The Patriarchy In This Riotous Action Comedy [Sundance]

Ria Khan (Priya Kansara, sparkling in her feature debut) likes to believe that she’s no ordinary British-Pakistani teenager. Her dreams, for instance, always seem outsized — she doesn’t just want to learn martial arts but rather perfect it so well…

AI Doll Goes Feral in Johnstone’s Wickedly Fun Horror Film

Move over, Chucky! There’s a new killer doll in town. She’s the model 3 generative android, or M3GAN for short, and she is a child’s greatest companion and a parent’s greatest ally. A marvel of artificial intelligence, the life-like doll…

Nicole Holofcener Is Back On Her Game In A Tender, Funny Julia Louis-Dreyfus Vehicle [Sundance]

There was a time when it seemed like every movie trailer for every single comedy began with bouncy music and a voice-over artist explaining cheerfully, “[NAME OF PROTAGONIST] had it all!” But at the beginning of Nicole Holofcener’s “You Hurt…

Goliath | Film Threat

The drama Goliath agonizingly revisits the idea that you cannot go home again. Canadian director/writer Luke Villemaire brings the pain when a young woman gets a fateful call at work. That lady is Robin Walker (Jessica Sipos), who has a promising…

A Sly and Slight Meta-Comedy

If Jordan Firstman did not exist, it would be necessary for Sebastián Silva to invent him. “Discomfort rooted in class friction” and “the perverse amusement of watching people be annoying” rank high on the list of stalwart indie filmmaker Silva’s favorite recurring themes, and…

Puss In Boots: The Last Wish Review

Home Movie Reviews Puss In Boots: The Last Wish Review - Spectacular Animation, Underwhelming Story The film allows Puss in Boots time to shine. But far too many characters and a lack of heart prevent The Last Wish from reaching…

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