Great cast can’t save humdrum thriller ‘Ava’
For an inexpensive action-thriller, ‘Ava’ is not a bad watch.
For an inexpensive action-thriller, ‘Ava’ is not a bad watch.
If there is anything more heartbreaking than unrequited love, it’s the death of a loved one. The new Amazon Prime film “The Map of Tiny Perfect Things” deals gently with both subjects, although, maybe a bit too gently to ultimately be affective.
Look for the movie to garner a number of nominations on the awards circuit for directing, writing and acting.
The movie, which won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, will also feature a pre-recorded question-and-answer session with director Lee Isaac Chung and Jeff Nichols.
Denzel Washington makes every movie he’s in better.
The movie is an impressive directorial debut for the Oscar and Emmy-winning actress, whose varied career includes projects like If Beale Street Could Talk and the HBO series Watchmen.
The film’s plot is a good one, but the devil truly is in the details.
Safety fits in well with the type of family home entertainment Disney has been offering since the 1950s.
Reviews of The Midnight Sky (Netflix), Soul (Disney+) and Wonder Woman 1984 (HBO Max).
While Netflix remains the dominant streaming channel of the moment, two major players are each firing major salvos across the streaming decks on Christmas Day.
Give it a decade and Fatman might end up being a cult Christmas classic. Weirder things have happened.
Hillbilly Elegy is too effective and heartbreaking, bringing up thoughts and emotions I’d rather let rest.
All 17 of the 2021 lineup of Warner Bros. films will stream for 31 days on HBO Max while also playing in theaters.
The cinematography is truly breathtaking throughout the movie, but the clumpy dialogue weighs the movie down like a battalion of sandbags.
The film is likable enough to veg out on the couch with your significant other or a tub of ice cream, whichever is applicable.
If you like romantic comedies, you might turn this movie into a drinking game of sorts when you spot a plot device pilfered from another movie.
Life has its heartbreaks, setbacks, and tragedies that can’t be erased, but it’s our attitude that makes our lives either wonderful, awful, or something in-between.
Sorkin’s scripting work is at the same time smooth and biting, expertly detailing the issues at hand.
The film is written, directed, and stars Jim Cummings, whose debut film ‘Thunder Road’ won him much deserved attention on the film festival circuit in 2018.
Horror movie fans will notice dozens of nods to classics like Halloween, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scream, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, among others.
I dove into the recent Hulu movie Palm Springs virtually blindfolded.
The movie was set to open in theaters last spring as a Warner Bros. release, but the closures due to COVID-19 prompted the sale to Netflix.
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