Movie Reviews with Ryan Lane

Movie Reviews with Ryan Lane

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  • Batman
  • Perfect Blue
  • The Green Knight
  • Asteroid City

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  • Black Bag

    ★★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-

    ★★½

  • Belle

    ★★★½

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  • Black Bag

    Black Bag

    ★★★★½

    Expertly directed and tightly written, "Black Bag" features grade-A performances from its all-star cast.

    The flim explores the messy dynamics of trying to date people whom you are by law required to lie to and how it's a recipe for disaster.

    The cinematography does an excellent job of cluing the audience in to important set-ups without beating you over the head.

    The cloak-and-dagger dynamics are well-written and made expert use of the "bomb under the table" plot device.

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★

    Extreme weather ravages planet Earth, people are trapped in a system that sees them more as numbers than as human beings, and people elect to follow an egotistical, xenophobic businessman who's obsessed with efficiency, suppressing scientific facts that disagree with his opinions, and "spreading his seed". No, I'm not talking about America under the Trump administration (again!!!), but you have to be blind not to see the commonalities.

    Mickey Barnes, along with the rest of his fellow crew members jetting…

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  • Running the Bases

    Running the Bases

    YouTube: youtu.be/ZsD6OGGG8Io

    This is not a review. Let me repeat myself. This is not a review. This is a warning, a warning to all those who might have even the slightest amount of curiosity toward seeing this movie. This film is pure, Grade A, Christian Nationalist propaganda. This film is from those who think that the separation of Church and State is merely a suggestion. This film is from those who think that despite the fact that American society and…

  • Freelance

    Freelance

    ★½

    YouTube: https://youtu.be/OLjWg1YsR1g

    Lacking in humor and fun action sequences, "Freelance" thankfully contracts an overqualified cast to lend desperately needed charm.

    Mason Pettits (John Cena) is a Special Forces operator turned lawyer following a failed mission to assassinate the president of Paldonia, Juan Venegas (Juan Raba). Wanting to escape his boring domestic life, Mason takes a job to protect journalist Claire Wellington (Allison Brie) as she interviews President Juan Venegas. But this simple mission becomes a lot more complicated when the interview…