Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Goodrich is a well-written and acted film about getting older and taking advantage of second chances. Michael Keaton is spectacular in the lead role of the titular Andy Goodrich, who wakes up to a call from his wife telling him she’s checking into rehab and she’s leaving him. He’s now fully responsible for his 9-year-old twins, something the workaholic Andy isn’t used to. He also has an older daughter played by Mila Kunis, who is pregnant and sorting through the emotions…
This was a film I was really looking forward to based on the trailer. I even read the book upon which the movie is based. And while the general story and some of the ideas remain the same, some of the execution of those ideas is different. Not bad. Just different.
I had a ton of fun with this movie and it seems like Robert Pattinson did as well, since the film gives him the opportunity to explore various aspects…
While fairly bleak, the film is actually a pretty smart and thoughtful investigation of friendship, particularly those between men. There’s a certain bizarre sense to most of the movie’s interactions between Colm and Padraic, but it feels true in spite of that. Colin Farrell is excellent, as is Brendan Gleason is a less showy role, and on the whole it’s hard to find a place where the film doesn’t deliver. It’s small and intimate, but the setting works so effectively…
The battle scenes look great and are well made, which is no shock considering that we’re talking about Ridley Scott. But almost everything outside of those battles are weirdly unfocused with a script that commits the cardinal sin of biopics: it tries to cover too much time. Surely, there are several movies inside of Napoleon’s life, so trying to make this happen inside of 2 1/2 hours, most of which can’t avoid being dreadfully dull, doesn’t work at all. Phoenix…