PADDINGTON 2 (2017)
“A whirlwind of beauty, style, cleverness, and class”
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“A whirlwind of beauty, style, cleverness, and class”
Read More“Mary could not conjure any strange alchemy to morph the inert stone in my chest”
Read More“… just nailing the basics and letting the actors do the tremendous job that they can”
Read More“There might be singes or small slices, but the blood and pain just wouldn’t gush out.”
Read More“At least it engaged both my adult intellectual faculties and my Disney childlike humor.”
Read More“It might be my favorite Spider-Man film of all-time.”
Read More“I liked it but the universal love that appears to be its birthright avoided me. “
Read More“Solid genre effort but it wants to play more like a political thriller and less an action film “
Read More“appreciated some of the weirdness that it peaked at, with the lack of appropriate explanations very much savored”
Read More“A tasty bit of popular cinema but with an artist’s eye and independent panache “
Read More“There is a strange mixture of adoration for the rugged lawlessness while also kicking that stereotype in the side while it soundly sleeps.”
Read More“creeping maw of devastation and cold darkness that slowly gnaws, grinding away at hope and happiness“
Read More“ movie that begins and ends with (Live Aid) performance only mustered a faint whimper of that majesty.”
Read More“A proper old-school inspired possession/occult flick that is able to pull off the creep, dread, excitement and emotional core necessary to make it work”
Read More“The Raid meets A Bittersweet Life/Man From Nowhere is a pretty simple way to state it “
Read More“felt more like a big block love letter to the original than a revitalized unique vision”
Read More“Certainly a decently good time at the theater, but the experience is fleeting and swamped in a nostalgic ichor and belabored pace.”
Read More“like The Raid, Evans uses that stripped down nature to make a compelling and driven “point A to death” tale”
Read More“ I did like this film and it is well worth a view, because when it is flying, it damn well soars.”
Read More“All hoped hype sizzle with no substance or real value, which is fairly fitting for a movie about Venom”
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