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Trial by Fire 2018
Trial by Fire has the burden of being based on a true story and the result is a bit of a narrative mess. Jack O’Connell and Laura Dern deliver good performances, but not even Dern, who seems to be on point every performance can lift this movie out of the mess it creates by simply trying to do too much with the two leads. It’s too bad really because underneath the scripts overt desire to reclaim Todd’s character after being…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
I’m late to the party on this triumph of a film. It’s genre bending and mind bending and an absolute joy from beginning to end. Superbly acted all along the way, it’s the multiverse movie that the MCU wishes it could make. This is the kind of movie that makes us love the movies.
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The Gorge 2025
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
As an action movie that leans heavily on the charisma of its leads, it’s fine. It might have been better as an origin story for The Last of Us. Otherwise it’s a rather ordinary action film.
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Deadpool & Wolverine 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
It’s…fine. While landing some genuinely funny moments, it goes for far too many laughs and seems desperate to out spectacle the previous two Deadpool offerings. Irreverent as ever, the tone of the film fits the hype, but Jackman and Reynolds don’t achieve the on-screen chemistry I expected from their (in)famous on-line pseudo-feud. The pot shoot takes at the multiverse seems out of place considering the entire film revolves around the very real MCU entity of the TVA. Despite that, it’s…
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