π¦ Sonic 3 is a neon-soaked joyride that takes absurdity to dazzling new heights, anchored by Keanu Reeves voicing a gun-toting hedgehog on a motorcycle doing the Akira slide. If that premise doesnβt grab you, Jim Carrey delivers not one but two deliriously over-the-top performances, proving once again heβs in a league of his own when it comes to stealing scenes.
Visually, the film dazzles with some of the best action sequences in the series, though it never forgets toβ¦
π·πΊ Another one of Sean Bakerβs tribute to sex workers, Anora feels like a volatile mix of Pretty Woman and Uncut Gems, blending the glitz and chaos of the industry with a brutal critique of privilege and power dynamics. The film offers a raw and unflinching look at the life of a New Jersey stripper navigating toxic relationships with wealthy, exploitative men.
Madison is magnetic as Ani, embodying the aimlessness and resilience of a generation trying to make ends meetβ¦
πBong Joon-hoβs Mickey 17 is a film at war with itselfβhalf cerebral sci-fi, half chaotic satire, but never a satisfying whole. The story wrestles with deep existential questions but keeps undercutting itself with abrupt tonal shifts, as if multiple drafts from different eras of the production got tangled together.
Themes of corporate greed, worker expendability and identity swirl around, but rather than complimenting one another, they trip over themselves. Over-reliance on voiceover turns what should be gripping into a lecture,β¦
Say Fred. I hear you like em young.
I guess Nick Offerman read that he's only in the first two and last two minutes of the film so he declined to dye his hair grey, in favor of a bad wig. This movie could have used more of him, wigged up or not.
The details of this civil war are pretty vague, and the action is fairly infrequent until the final 20 minutes, so be prepared. There's dense lore that hardly even seems to matter. I think aβ¦
π©Produced by Venom, Morbius and Uncharted's Avi Arad.
π©Hiring of Eli Roth, who may have his niche in horror but it's not these kind of movies.
π©It's based on a popular M-rated game but the film is PG-13.
π©Fans of the game saying it's miscasted on social media.
π©Announced eight years ago, has gone through at least six rounds of rewrites, ending up with Hangover Parts 2-3 and Superhero Movie scribe Craig Mazin on the final draft, who asked thatβ¦
