Chad Wendlandt

Chad Wendlandt Pro

Favorite films

  • The Exorcist
  • Hot Fuzz
  • Gremlins
  • The Lego Batman Movie

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  • The Lavender Hill Mob

    ★★★½

  • The Electric State

    ★½

  • Milk

    ★★★★½

  • Killing Them Softly

    ★★★½

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  • The Lavender Hill Mob

    The Lavender Hill Mob

    ★★★½

    A story about how the French manage to ruin everything.

  • The Electric State

    The Electric State

    ★½

    Its ruminations on technology, manual labor, and the need for real human connection feel half-baked. Chris Pratt phones in another Great Value Starlord performance. If you took a shot after every on-the-nose needle drop, you’d have an impressive case of alcohol poisoning. It would be too expensive at half the reported budget. And for all of the crash-bang robot action, it feels kind of lifeless. And yet, I didn’t hate The Electric State quite as much as all the negative word-of-mouth had me prepared for.

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  • Gunday

    Gunday

    ★★★½

    The fight scenes are solid, but where Gunday really nails down American buddy action movies is in the homoeroticism.

  • Elton John: Never Too Late

    Elton John: Never Too Late

    ★★

    Even if Elton John: Never Too Late could find a throughline and stick with it, it would likely just be a lesser documentary version of Rocketman. But the doc is such an unfocused mess that even the occasional bits of actual insight get lost in a pretty uninspired shuffle.