I was never bored but rarely thrilled. Black Bag is a mystery where the protagonist is consistently further ahead than you, so it always just feels like you're waiting to be told what's happening, rather than being able to figure it out yourself. But the line-to-line dialogue is sharp as a blade and the cast all brandish it like one. The joy here is really in watching the character dynamics, much more than the plot, which never feels as heavy…
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The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie 2024
They don't make 'em like this anymore! This movie feels plucked straight out of the era of The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries, and Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island. Brought me straight back to my childhood. Now, that's partially because the animation is mostly TV movie quality, but despite that I still found it quite inventive. The best jokes in the movie are animation gags, particularly the Farmer Joe stuff, which got me laughing harder than any big screen picture has in a…
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Novocaine 2025
My best friend used to get into a lot of fights, and he almost always won those fights. One time he told me that he wasn't actually technically good at fighting, he's just not afraid of getting hit in the face. Other people flinch.
I was thinking about that a lot during Novacaine, a fun, inventive action comedy about a regular guy who can't feel pain. Novacaine takes a smidge too long to get going, relies on some hand waving,…
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Death of a Unicorn 2025
Death of a Unicorn aspires to be a funny cultural critique, like a Knives Out or The Menu. Unfortunately it only really manages to be a decent 2000s CGI monster movie, like Slither or Piranha 3D.
It starts really promising, the first act is solid. It gets to the premise quickly, and starts setting up ideas and pulling on interesting folklore. But it brings up so many ideas doesn't ultimately deliver, never landing on a real perspective on pharmaceutical companies,…
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