Reviews

Spins the head but ultimately doesn’t stimulate it.

Generates enormous tension from the gradual emergence of truth and the complicated question of what to do with it.

Comfortably cartoonish, funnier than expected and even kinda cute.

Drives into every plot hole and then unites them into a canyon.

Where many horror-adjacent movies can struggle with evoking much of anything in the viewer, “Clock” continually succeeds at creating a feeling of destabilization.

Unlike the similarly titled and painfully over-praised “C’mon C’mon,” “There There” pursues complicated truth instead of pointing at a simplified version of it.

A delicate balance of self-awareness and vulnerability, disbelief and discomfort.

Simply not enough in nearly every category.

A screen saver posing as a movie, with a dead-end plot merely killing time before, um, killing time.

Too often feels annoying and aimless instead of insightful and clever.

When a person’s career has been defined by surface-level sensationalism, you’d think that the goal here would be clarity.

The kind of just-OK movie for which the “rent it” designation was created.

Occasionally achieves the desired crackle.

Part of a necessary conversation, but only accomplishes so much on its own.

At heart “Somebody I Used to Know” is about the messy reasons people do things (alone and with and to each other) and the separation between what is said, done and felt.

Sharper and more satisfying than we have any right to expect a movie like this to be.

Progressively acknowledges the reasons different people aim high and the difficulty in ever filling a need that may be inherently insatiable.

Yeah, the filmmaking shows potential, but the feeling never arrives — only the false suggestion that it’s been there the whole time.

Vapid, scattered and rather embarrassing.

Turns vacation into a breathing organism and a level-headed examination of deliberately thoughtless behavior.