Reviews2:00 PM6hSaveReviews2:00 PMC-ReviewsBoss Level is a time loop of bad jokes, tedious action, and Mel Gibson villainyIgnatiy Vishnevetsky35Outside of The Grey and a suite of unrealized projects, the writer-director Joe Carnahan has seemed most at home in…
Reviews2/27/21Feb 27SaveReviews2/27/21C+ReviewsUnderwhelming undersea road trip Sponge On The Run squeezes SpongeBob dryIgnatiy Vishnevetsky36SpongeBob (Tom Kenny), the lovable and highly merchandisable naïf from Bikini Bottom, has a problem: His pet sea…
Recommends2/19/21Feb 191Recommends2/19/21RecommendsBetween Lethal Weapon sequels, Danny Glover delivered his most strangely magnetic performanceIgnatiy Vishnevetsky13Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Reviews2/19/21Feb 19SaveReviews2/19/21CReviewsIt’s the audience that loses in Lee Daniels’ bloated The United States Vs. Billie HolidayIgnatiy Vishnevetsky16Harry Jacob Anslinger, who started as a railroad bull, spent more than 30 years as the commissioner of the Treasury…
Reviews2/9/21Feb 9SaveReviews2/9/21CReviewsThe Mauritanian transforms a memoir of unlawful detention into just another shouty courtroom dramaIgnatiy Vishnevetsky5Note: The writer of this review watched The Mauritanian on a digital screener from home. Before making the decision…
Recommends2/5/21Feb 51Recommends2/5/21RecommendsDeep Cover is a smart, over-the-top ’90s classicIgnatiy Vishnevetsky46Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Preview2/4/21Feb 4SavePreview2/4/21PreviewNic Cage, Tom, and Jerry crash a February of late Oscar hopefulsA.A. Dowd, Katie Rife, William Hughes, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, and 1 more7Another month, another slate of films hedging their bets between the slow reopening of movie theaters and the…
Reviews2/3/21Feb 3SaveReviews2/3/21CReviewsRussia’s Oscar hopeful Dear Comrades! is spin disguised as a history lessonIgnatiy Vishnevetsky26Note: The writer of this review watched Dear Comrades! on a digital screener from home. Before making the decision…
Reviews1/27/21Jan 27SaveReviews1/27/21CReviewsGeneric redemption drama Palmer expects us to buy Justin Timberlake as a hardened ex-conIgnatiy Vishnevetsky31If there’s anything worth missing about the leading men of long ago, it is not—as right-wing pundits claim—some…
Reviews1/19/21Jan 19SaveReviews1/19/21BReviewsNotturno offers a striking look at the scars, but not the horrors, of life in a war zoneIgnatiy Vishnevetsky2How does one sleep near a war zone? The question, though never directly posed, is given multiple answers in…
Reviews1/12/21Jan 12SaveReviews1/12/21CReviewsLiam Neeson moseys into Clint Eastwood territory with The MarksmanIgnatiy Vishnevetsky16Note: The writer of this review watched The Marksman on a digital screener from home. Before making the decision to…
Reviews12/17/20Dec 17SaveReviews12/17/20CReviewsArmageddon is free family therapy in the Gerard Butler disaster movie GreenlandIgnatiy Vishnevetsky30If the disaster genre is to be believed, global cataclysms are nothing short of free couples therapy and family…
Reviews12/16/20Dec 16SaveReviews12/16/20B-ReviewsPaul W.S. Anderson brings more video game mayhem to the big screen with Monster HunterIgnatiy Vishnevetsky62Note: The writer of this review watched Monster Hunter on a digital screener from home. Before making the decision…
Reviews12/10/20Dec 10SaveReviews12/10/20DReviewsThe first movie inspired by the pandemic is here, and it sucksIgnatiy Vishnevetsky96If nothing else, the pandemic has separated the true constants from the variables. We know now what an America…
Best Of12/9/20Dec 92Best Of12/9/20Best OfThe best movie scenes of 2020A.A. Dowd, Allison Shoemaker, Alex McLevy, and 16 more72Any movie can achieve a moment of greatness. We’re talking about those few minutes that stick with you for a…
Preview12/3/20Dec 31Preview12/3/20PreviewWonder Woman, George Clooney, and Pixar bring the blockbusters home this ChristmasA.A. Dowd, Katie Rife, William Hughes, Jesse Hassenger, and 1 more43It’s the final month of 2020, and we’re not much closer than we were all year to getting back to the status quo of…
Reviews12/1/20Dec 11Reviews12/1/20BReviewsMayor finds cringe comedy and dread in the business of running a Palestinian cityIgnatiy Vishnevetsky10Musa Hadid, the mayor of the Palestinian city of Ramallah (pop. 40,000), is not an imposing guy. Accoutered in a…
Recommends11/27/20Nov 271Recommends11/27/20RecommendsTwo famous screenwriters lent their talents to the gritty ’70s crime thriller The YakuzaIgnatiy Vishnevetsky38Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just…
Reviews11/24/20Nov 242Reviews11/24/20DReviewsStardust, the Bowie biopic without any Bowie songs, is velvet garbageIgnatiy Vishnevetsky152Note: The writer of this review watched Stardust on a digital screener from home. Before making the decision to see…
Reviews11/20/20Nov 20SaveReviews11/20/20ReviewsThere are two new Jackie Chan movies out today, but only one is dumb and funIgnatiy Vishnevetsky38There’s no reason why a movie that features Jackie Chan, lion attacks, and machete-wielding henchmen on Jet Skis…