Married, single or somewhere in between, anyone would struggle to find a more startling, complex, funny, heartbreaking deconstruction of couplehood as the elaborate blending of two lives, and the dynamics that maintain or sever.
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The best crop in years!
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As underwhelming as its predecessor was impressive.
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How devastating for a movie that is meant to be topical to feel like it has been on the shelf for a while.
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Most Nicholas Sparks movies are insufferable as is. Now imagine if one was narrated by a dog.
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A more daring movie might have strived to really rock the foundation of this central relationship and see what shakes loose as a result.
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Feels exhausting before the body count even begins.
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A whirlwind of adult conversation and financial frustration, all very much existing amid the racial politics of a nation in which Donald Trump is the president and a professional sports organization in which most of the players are black and nearly none of the owners are.
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A few scorchers top a somewhat underwhelming year.
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All “what” and no “how” or “why,” “Vice” is the most disappointing movie in I don’t know how long. Man, I cannot believe how bad it is.
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“Some things may be interesting,” Hart says in his speech announcing the end to his campaign, “but that doesn’t mean they’re important.” The movie about him approaches something important and refuses to be interesting.
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Extraordinarily of the moment without underlining and bolding it.
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Feels like a movie about writers by people who have only glimpsed the practice from afar, understanding little about an author’s mind or the literary community in which the work and the writers exist.
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It is possible for good songs to have some clunky lyrics, and “Hearts Beat Loud” mostly rises above moments in which the feeling feels cheap.
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Does little more than bob alongside every other title in the human vs. sea genre.
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The theme is just too basic and the tone is too stilted for this to work.
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Ultimately overcomes its exhausting, poorly staged comic bits to register as a testament to the resilience of kids and follies of parents.
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Plays like Nicholas Sparks’ innocent kid sister, where the world is defined by piers and acoustic guitars and death’s ever-looming interruption of love.
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There are interesting realities just outside the edges of the film, which would rather move the pieces than tip them over.
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Screams amateur hour, not veteran Oscar winner.
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