The Shade ⭐️⭐️ "Half of it is a moody and understanding dissection of trauma, while the other half is a meandering bore. It's an unbalanced movie that seems to be more invested in its metaphor than its story, which would be fine if it didn't seem to fumble how to plot itself out."
A Mistake ⭐️⭐️1/2 "The movie heads in aggressively somber directions, and its downbeat plot-turns pile up until the movie blows out its own wheels. I'm not convinced the movie needed to be this relentlessly dark, but it's also not boring."
Never Let Go ⭐️⭐️1/2 "The issue with Never Let Go is that its themes and style challenge each other for superiority. Its desire to keep the audience second-guessing turns a movie about trauma, paranoia, and social isolation into a movie that's almost about nothing."
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Multiplex Madness The 4:30 Movie ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Genre: Comedy Director: Kevin Smith Starring: Austin Zajur, Nicholas Cirillo, Reed Northrup, Sien...
The Killer's Game ⭐️⭐️1/2 "Perfectly serviceable junk food cinema. So ridiculously unrealistic that its charisma lies in how far you're willing to ride its off-the-charts bullshit-o-meter."
Seemingly so they could blow open for a gag where they fly through the air during a race in the opening. It sucks and I didn't like it
It would have been the best one since the 80s if they did
Transformers One ⭐️⭐️ "It's lavish production design with a convoluted script and clumsy, ironic humor that is often the same two or three jokes over and over again. There is no ambition to be a real story instead of a loud series of flashy images."
The 4:30 Movie ⭐️⭐️⭐️ "The movie is both very funny and very sweet-natured, making it hard not to leave with a smile on your face. Smith concentrates on those aspects while the plotting suffers because the turns in the movie are too trifle for a full story."
The Critic ⭐️⭐️ "The plot's trajectory spirals in convoluted directions, despite playing with an interesting story. It's a lot of muchness, too high on the thickness of its dramatic tension to take a step back and really see what works and what doesn't."
