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Apocalypse Now Redux (1979) Paul Tatara The movie still has the power to floor you with its stunning sounds and imagery.
Posted Sep 22, 2024  Edit critic review
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) Brian Lowry Beneath the outlandishness, half-dozen belly laughs and nerd-centric beats resides sweet nostalgia for the last quarter-century of superhero movies, while demonstrating that Marvel Studios possesses the power to laugh at itself.
Posted Jul 23, 2024  Edit critic review
Twisters (2024) Brian Lowry Director Lee Isaac Chung tackles this major-studio assignment without bringing anything particularly distinctive to it, relying a little too much on how good his leads look wet and sweaty.
Posted Jul 17, 2024  Edit critic review
Faye (2024) Brian Lowry It’s a perfect introduction to an actor who has worn the dreaded “D” word -- “difficult” or “diva,” take your pick -- throughout her career, in a film that serves as an unvarnished but appropriately laudatory tribute.
Posted Jul 15, 2024  Edit critic review
Sorry/Not Sorry (2023) Brian Lowry Having comics as the principal storytellers adds a level of humor and wit to the conversation, but there’s a pointed side to all this as well.
Posted Jul 11, 2024  Edit critic review
Fly Me to the Moon (2024) Brian Lowry Less than weighty in the comedy part of its equation, the film largely works as a vehicle for Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, even without completely sticking the landing.
Posted Jul 11, 2024  Edit critic review
MaXXXine (2024) Brian Lowry Stepping up in class in terms of casting, the film works best as an ode to the movies and grime of 1980s Hollywood, and a bit less as a mystery built around its driven starlet-in-waiting.
Posted Jul 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024) Brian Lowry "Axel F" only turns up the heat to a low simmer, but as breezy escapism goes, those armed with the proper attitude might find themselves doing the neutron dance, or a version of it, all over again.
Posted Jul 03, 2024  Edit critic review
Despicable Me 4 (2024) Brian Lowry A tired, disjointed medley of madcap visual gags, the animated film yields roughly as many legitimate laughs as can be counted on a Minion’s three-digit hand.
Posted Jul 02, 2024  Edit critic review
A Family Affair (2024) Brian Lowry While the Nicole Kidman-Zac Efron pairing should provoke curiosity, the tired beats of this romantic (and only occasional) comedy don’t rub together well enough to generate many sparks.
Posted Jun 28, 2024  Edit critic review
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024) Brian Lowry Nobody has done more to keep the western flame kindling on the big screen than Kevin Costner, but the audacity of his latest rodeo feels like overreach, if not outright folly
Posted Jun 27, 2024  Edit critic review
Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple (2024) Brian Lowry Like his trademark bandanas, “Disciple” wears its soul, and its love for the music these artists created, brightly displayed where all the world can see it.
Posted Jun 24, 2024  Edit critic review
Trigger Warning (2024) Brian Lowry Trigger Warning might not be packing anything unexpected in the chamber, but for those who come to it with the proper mind-set, the movie doesn’t wind up firing blanks either.
Posted Jun 21, 2024  Edit critic review
Firebrand (2023) Brian Lowry Alicia Vikander and Jude Law anchor this handsome exercise in historical fiction, which meanders a bit before nicely paying off at the end.
Posted Jun 14, 2024  Edit critic review
Inside Out 2 (2024) Brian Lowry A wonderfully clever sequel that ages up the concept with one dreaded word: Puberty. Whatever one’s age, there’s much to like in a movie that offers the requisite laughs and sweetness, while managing to feel quite profound.
Posted Jun 13, 2024  Edit critic review
Brats (2024) Brian Lowry While it’s fun seeing "The Breakfast Club" as they near “The Early-Bird Dinner Club” years, this is one of those projects that would have benefited from a more journalistic tone.
Posted Jun 13, 2024  Edit critic review
Hit Man (2023) Brian Lowry Breezy and slight, Hit Man provides a somewhat unlikely showcase for Glen Powell, teaming up with acclaimed director Richard Linklater to take an intriguing true story before embellishing it, Hollywood-style, beyond recognition.
Posted Jun 07, 2024  Edit critic review
Queer Planet (2023) Brian Lowry In this golden age of nature documentaries unleashed by technological advances and the appetite for streaming content, Queer Planet deserves credit for trying to connect those dots back to our lives in a somewhat different way.
Posted Jun 06, 2024  Edit critic review
Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024) Brian Lowry The result has that calculated, tired feel about it, with a few moments of kinetic action but not enough to make the film play like anything more than a relic.
Posted Jun 05, 2024  Edit critic review
The Great Lillian Hall (2024) Brian Lowry The film doesn’t turn over new ground but nevertheless yields poignant moments, primarily in the interplay between Lange and Bates, who could play this part in her sleep and still makes the most of it.
Posted May 31, 2024  Edit critic review
Jim Henson Idea Man (2024) Brian Lowry Kermit might have sung that it’s not easy being green, but watching “Jim Henson: Idea Man,” it’s very easy appreciating the mind that gave us the Muppets and more, while still acknowledging the human foibles of the hand behind them.
Posted May 31, 2024  Edit critic review
Young Woman and the Sea (2024) Brian Lowry Like Trudy Ederle swimming the English Channel, knowing where you’re going, in this case, isn’t as significant as the near-irresistible, awe-inspiring act of getting there.
Posted May 30, 2024  Edit critic review
The Beach Boys (2024) Brian Lowry [The documentary] offers melancholy and nostalgia, and more than anything heightens appreciation for all those lingering vibrations, good and otherwise.
Posted May 24, 2024  Edit critic review
Atlas (2024) Brian Lowry Atlas more than anything wants to operate as an action movie, and director Brad Peyton keeps the story moving with a check-your-brain-at-the-door level of efficiency, relying on the shorthand of how familiar almost every beat of it feels.
Posted May 24, 2024  Edit critic review
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) Brian Lowry An undeniably muscular sensory assault that’s a bit malnourished as an origin-story detour off Fury Road.
Posted May 23, 2024  Edit critic review
The Garfield Movie (2024) Brian Lowry Big and loud, with animated action aimed at kids, the film also loads up references to things like Mission: Impossible, Top Gun and Fargo and still manages to feel as stale as a week-old lasagna left out too long in the summer.
Posted May 23, 2024  Edit critic review
Power (2024) Brian Lowry “Power” makes an intellectual argument, but it’s built on a visceral foundation, purposefully bleeding from past generations into the current one.
Posted May 17, 2024  Edit critic review
Back to Black (2024) Brian Lowry Thin as biopics go, the power of Abela’s portrayal elevates the film, providing a poignance and strength that’s the clearest motivation to go, go, go.
Posted May 16, 2024  Edit critic review
IF (2024) Brian Lowry IF does make the case for finding the fun in life, but in a movie that needs to be more fun than it is.
Posted May 16, 2024  Edit critic review
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) Brian Lowry This latest addition surpasses expectations, honoring the source while building a muscular and even thoughtful adventure around a very ape-centric concept.
Posted May 09, 2024  Edit critic review
Unfrosted (2024) Brian Lowry Far from a passion project, this Netflix film distinctly feels like a punchline in search of a movie, built on a soggy parade of sugary cameos that doesn’t provide much snap, crackle and pop.
Posted May 03, 2024  Edit critic review
The Fall Guy (2024) Brian Lowry Buoyed by the lure of what Ryan Gosling can do for a post-Barbie encore (or Ken-core), The Fall Guy is too flat in the early going to fully meet that challenge, rallying toward the end without reaching the heights required to make a really big splash.
Posted May 02, 2024  Edit critic review
The Idea of You (2024) Brian Lowry Think of it as one of those movies that really reinforces the adage there are no new ideas, just fresh versions of old ones set to different beats.
Posted May 02, 2024  Edit critic review
The Contestant (2023) Brian Lowry [This] strange story, and the road map it provided for the current age of social media and reality TV, gets recounted in The Contestant, a stunning documentary premiering on Hulu.
Posted May 01, 2024  Edit critic review
Challengers (2024) Brian Lowry [The payoff] doesn’t invalidate sitting through this otherwise neatly choreographed match, but in tennis terms, it’s the kind of unforced error that prevents Guadagnino’s latest film from ranking as an unqualified winner.
Posted Apr 25, 2024  Edit critic review
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) Brian Lowry The underwritten, somewhat messy results are broadly entertaining if not fully seaworthy from a dramatic point of view.
Posted Apr 19, 2024  Edit critic review
Rebel Moon: Part Two - The Scargiver (2024) Brian Lowry Alas, the characters and dialogue remain clunky, which shouldn’t be surprising given how derivative almost every beat of this is, down to the robot voiced by Anthony Hopkins.
Posted Apr 19, 2024  Edit critic review
Abigail (2024) Brian Lowry Chalk it up perhaps to modest expectations, but by that measure Abigail mostly makes the right steps, and by the time it’s over, that tiny dancer, and her captors, have had a busy day indeed.
Posted Apr 19, 2024  Edit critic review
Civil War (2024) Brian Lowry The images of the US turned into a war-torn country provides a sobering dystopian backdrop for an action movie that works on that level, without lingering in the mind as long as it could or should have.
Posted Apr 11, 2024  Edit critic review
Scoop (2024) Brian Lowry Even as a modest letdown Scoop is nevertheless worth watching for that climactic sequence, as well as what it has to say about the current state of media as the circle-the-wagons mentality surrounding the Royals.
Posted Apr 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) Brian Lowry “Godzilla x Kong” doesn’t multiply or divide, exactly, but in its tilt toward only those who are extremely invested in this increasingly silly franchise, it doesn’t conquer, either.
Posted Mar 28, 2024  Edit critic review
8/10
Problemista (2023) Brian Lowry A whimsical fish-out-of-water tale following a toymaker navigating the U.S. immigration system, Problemista is a deeply considered, fantastical tromp through a mundane wonderland.
Posted Mar 22, 2024  Edit critic review
Shirley (2024) Brian Lowry A sturdy but unspectacular film, one that honors Chisholm’s place in history while representing just one, too-concentrated facet of her giant shadow.
Posted Mar 22, 2024  Edit critic review
William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill (2023) Brian Lowry For an actor known for having led his crew as it boldly explored humankind’s final frontier, You Can Call Me Bill, somewhat disappointingly, takes its extensive access to Shatner and doesn’t go much of anywhere.
Posted Mar 22, 2024  Edit critic review
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) Brian Lowry A very busy movie that lacks the emotional hook of its predecessor, while spending too much time on the wrong characters in a way that yields a rather lifeless, chilly affair.
Posted Mar 21, 2024  Edit critic review
Immaculate (2024) Brian Lowry Sweeney ably carries the film on that level, though there are beats courtesy of director Michael Mohan and screenwriter Andrew Lobel as likely to elicit uncomfortable chuckles from the audience as fear.
Posted Mar 21, 2024  Edit critic review
Road House (2024) Brian Lowry The challenge with any reboot invariably involves capturing what people liked about its inspiration while bringing fresh wrinkles to it. On that level Road House moderately works.
Posted Mar 20, 2024  Edit critic review
The American Society of Magical Negroes (2024) Brian Lowry “The American Society of Magical Negroes” starts and ends quite well. Almost everything in between, alas, proves uneven and inert in a way that dilutes its satirical punch...
Posted Mar 19, 2024  Edit critic review
Damsel (2024) Brian Lowry Cleverly turns expectations on their heads while serving as a nifty showcase for Brown, who spends a fair amount of screen time alone other than the impressive special effects.
Posted Mar 08, 2024  Edit critic review
Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024) Brian Lowry Granted, there’s only so much that can be done at this point with this kind of concept beyond recycling it, but director Mike Mitchell keeps the story moving even during the relatively flat exposition.
Posted Mar 07, 2024  Edit critic review
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