The 40-Year-Old Version (R)
A nearly 40-year-old playwright feels stuck in her career and is facing life turmoil in The 40-Year-Old Version, a delightful comedy on Netflix.
Radha (Radha Blank, who also wrote and directed this movie) won a playwrights’ “30 under 30” award — but that was more than Continue reading “The 40-Year-Old Version (R)”
Ava (R)
A lady assassin dealing with personal issues must keep herself from becoming the next target in Ava, a pretty amazing trainwreck of a movie.
Ava (Jessica Chastain) is an assassin who wears wigs and does some very stagey flirting to try to put her subjects at ease and Continue reading “Ava (R) & Vampires vs. the Bronx (PG-13)”
Enola Holmes (PG-13)
The 16-year-old little sister to Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes searches for their vanished mother in Enola Holmes, a light, fun mystery action romp with a sweet mother/daughter story wrapped in a cute take on the Sherlock Holmes-y characters.
Enola (Millie Bobby Brown) has grown up on the Continue reading “Enola Holmes (PG-13)”
Antebellum (R)
Janelle Monáe gives a good performance in the murky, underdeveloped Antebellum.
I don’t think I can avoid spoiling some of this movie’s plot. As others have noted, Antebellum takes 35-ish minutes to tell you something that you know going in if you have seen its trailers (which IndieWire Continue reading “Antebellum (R) & Unpregnant (PG-13)”
A young woman becomes a warrior in Mulan, a very pretty, vaguely unsatisfying live-action remake of Disney’s 1998 animated movie.
From the time she is a little girl, the Force is strong with Mulan (Liu Yifei), who is expected to do girly things like be calm and put up with Continue reading “Mulan (PG-13)”
Film Reviews by Amy Diaz
John David Washington is exactly the A-list blend of dramatic gravitas and action chops that he appeared to be in BlacKkKlansman and watching him is the best part of Tenet, Christopher Nolan’s two-and-a-half-hour movie that has been saddled with the job of Saving Movie Continue reading “Tenet (PG-13)”
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Bill S. Preston, Esq., and Ted Theodore Logan are way old, dude, but are still trying to write the song that will unite the world in Bill & Ted Face the Music, the 29-years-in-the-making sequel which is available in theaters and at home.
Film Reviews by Amy Diaz
I got in my car and drove to an actual theater to see The New Mutants, a very “get ready for a five-part franchise!” movie about characters in an X-Men universe.
The movie didn’t offer me, a movies-only follower of the X-Men stories, any Continue reading “The New Mutants (PG-13)”
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Teenage boys who might be some degree of embarrassed by this movie when they are older spend a week giving a pretty good demonstration of modern American politics in the documentary Boys State.
The opening credits remind you of where you’ve likely heard of the Continue reading “Boys State (PG-13)”
Film Reviews by Amy Diaz
Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Dominique Fishback fight a chaos-bringing drug in Project Power, a promising but under-baked action movie from Netflix.
It is a chocolate chip pancake with a raw-batter center — potentially satisfying but frustrating for its not-quite-there-ness.
Art (Foxx) is on Continue reading “Project Power (PG-13)”
