I feel like I’m being gaslit by all the positive reviews.
Cate Blanchett does a really nice job playing a really terrible person, but apart from that, this movie doesn’t have much going for it.
While the animation, score, and story are all complete home runs, it's the dialogue of this movie that is the stand out for me. Brad Bird was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the Oscars for this movie, and for good reason. It's sharp, funny, emotional, dynamic, and real. The way that interactions between many sets of characters bounce and bob and weave through deceptively deep topics in some scenes, and it's able to calm down to a level that…
Mamma Mia, here we go again.
"Mission: Impossible," back at it for the sixth time. Conventional wisdom would say a franchise falls to mediocrity or with six movies (see "Halloween," "Tremors" or "Transformers").
"M:I" has defied that wisdom in the past. The first film in 1996 was a fun addition to the spy film canon. Two and three were both serviceable. Four and five were great movies without question.
"Fallout" ascends to the top of the franchise. The suspense-ridden thrills…