J. Barry Benintende

J. Barry Benintende

Favorite films

  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • The Godfather
  • Krull
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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  • Solo: A Star Wars Story

    ★★½

  • Sliding Doors

    ★★

  • Captain America: The First Avenger

    ★★★½

  • Professor Marston and the Wonder Women

    ★★½

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  • Solo: A Star Wars Story

    Solo: A Star Wars Story

    ★★½

    Ron Howard was brought in late in the game to try and fix what was, apparently, a troubled shoot. What is the most polite way to say I did not love the finished product?

    I got bedsores watching it, it felt so long?

    Great cure for insomnia?

    It could have been longer?

    It felt like a bloated mess?

    Well, at least we know that the next time we see Han Solo, he won't look as lost on screen?

    I like Ron Howard, I like Star Wars, I did not like this?

  • Sliding Doors

    Sliding Doors

    ★★

    I preferred watching Gwyneth Paltrow in "Se7en," because I am a sucker for a film with a happy ending.

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  • Short Subject

    Short Subject

    ★★★

    War is Hell and this film shows it very plainly in just over a minute. Not sanctioned by Disney, this was an underground anti-war film that got straight to the point.

  • Warm Springs

    Warm Springs

    ★½

    I'm a sucker for historical epics. I'm a nerd for presidential films. I'm an even bigger geek for period pieces. Warm Springs should have been tailor-made for me. Sadly, it was not a good film.

    I found myself bored by the pacing, and underwhelmed by the story of future president Franklin Delano Roosevelt's rehabilitation in Warm Springs, Georgia. I could go on, but I won't.