Despite all the discourse about this movie being one of “many The Menu lookalikes” I still went in with optimism with the ensemble looking noice and the premise sounding fun enough to warrant a watch. And yeah… it’s fine, but it should be great! In reality, it’s got some tense bits (and one genuinely unsettling sequence, aka the Puppet Show), but as a whole, I just couldn’t get behind this as much as I wanted to.
Opus just never feels nearly as…
Finished up work early today and decided to dart off to one of the AMCs near me for a late afternoon screening of Steven Soderbergh’s second movie of 2025, and one of my more anticipated releases lately, Black Bag! Happy to report that the movie is really damn good, and that my theater was shockingly full!
Some incredibly tense sequences here, all executed to perfection thanks to the dialogue and direction working so in sync with one another. There’s not…
Came into tonight’s IMAX screening of Mickey 17 with fairly large expectations, and while they weren’t totally met, I had a good time!
Robert Pattinson is exceptional here and is truly living through his wacky & wild weirdo era at the moment. This is much more akin to his work in The King, The Devil All The Time, or The Boy and The Heron in terms of off-the-wall performance compared to his turn as Bruce Wayne in The Batman… and it’s a better…
Decided to let this linger with me for before writing a review that I’d feel iffy about afterwards, and I’m glad I did. Initially, coming out of the screening I really enjoyed it, but still wasn’t sure how I was feeling. It’s a fairly dense movie after all. Wound up sitting on it for several hours and I think I’ve got my thoughts together. LENGTHY REVIEW INCOMING!!! 🗣️
Despite being a massive Anya Taylor-Joy fan, I really do think things worked…
