Jamie Foxx is a delight, and the script by director Will Gluck and Aline Brosh McKenna works overtime in presenting clever topical twists on the stage show’s clichés.
Matt Brunson
Posted inArts, Entertainment & Film
Review: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
By a dwarf hair, the best of the trio, wrapping up the story in satisfactory fashion while investing the proceedings with some genuine pathos along the way.
Posted inArts, Entertainment & Film
Review: Exodus: Gods and Kings
To serve as a distraction, a gazillion dollars worth of CGI is tossed onto the screen, but the results surprisingly run hot-and-cold.
Posted inArts, Entertainment & Film
Review: Top Five
Chris Rock now lays it all on the line with Top Five, drawing upon personal experience to fashion the tale of Andre Allen, a popular comedian who’s tired of headlining fluff.
Posted inArts, Entertainment & Film
Review: Wild
Witherspoon is superb as Cheryl, who undergoes a strenuous 1,100-mile hike in an attempt to find herself after suffering through a series of personal crises.
Posted inArts, Entertainment & Film
Review: Foxcatcher
Steve Carell is scary-good, subjugating all traces of the familiar comic spark very much in evidence in his previous films.
Posted inArts, Entertainment & Film
Review: Horrible Bosses 2
The humor is mostly of the sort that will leave 14-year-old boys gasping for air through explosive bouts of diarrhetic laughing but find everyone else rolling their eyes.
Posted inArts, Entertainment & Film
Review: The Hunger Games: Mockinjay, Part I
We had to wait three whole years to witness how Han Solo would get rescued, we’ll only have to wait one to see if this franchise rescues itself from overhyped expectations and wraps up in high-flying fashion.
Posted inArts, Entertainment & Film
Review: Dumb and Dumber To
When it takes two decades for a sequel to appear, it only means those involved have been experiencing career free-falls and are hoping for an easy payday to revive their flagging fortunes.
Posted inArts, Entertainment & Film
Review: Interstellar
My advice is to see this movie in a regular auditorium and avoid paying the costly IMAX fee for a potentially shoddy presentation. But do see this movie.
Posted inArts, Entertainment & Film
Review: John Wick
So simplistic that not only does it pale next to the recent hit The Equalizer – another movie about a former killer forced to again tangle with Russian thugs – it makes that Denzel Washington film seem as elaborately plotted as Chinatown by comparison.
Posted inArts, Entertainment & Film
Review: Fury
About as unsentimental a war movie as has ever barreled across the movie screen.