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Comedy

The Wedding Plan is a refreshing romantic angle on religious marriage obsession

May 28, 2017Jeremy Fogelman Leave a Comment

‘The Wedding Plan’ is an engaging take on the mad rush to get married filtered through a religious lens… continue reading

★★★, Movie Reviews, Movies Amos Tamam, Comedy, Irit Sheleg, Noa Koler, Oded Leopold, Oz Zehavi, Roadside Attractions, Romance, Ronny Merhavi, The Wedding Plan, Udi Persi

The Lovers fails to make you care for a bunch of idiots

May 19, 2017Jeremy Fogelman Leave a Comment

‘The Lovers’ tries to make you believe in a doomed romance and instead does not… continue reading

★, Movie Reviews, Movies A24, Aidan Gillen, Comedy, Debra Winger, Jessica Sula, Melora Walters, Romance, The Lovers, Tracy Letts, Tyler Ross

Paris Can Wait is an overindulgent fluff piece too in love with itself

May 19, 2017Jeremy Fogelman Leave a Comment

A French travelogue and food porn do not an interesting movie make… continue reading

★, Movie Reviews, Movies Alec Baldwin, Arnaud Viard, Cédric Monnet, Comedy, Diane Lane, Paris Can Wait, Romance, Sony Pictures Classics

This is Not What I Expected is a charming take on a Chinese rom-com

May 13, 2017Jeremy Fogelman Leave a Comment

Food leads to love in ‘This is Not What I Expected’… continue reading

★★, Movie Reviews, Movies Comedy, Foreign, Romance, Takeshi Kaneshiro, This Is Not What I Expected, Well Go USA, Zhou Dongyu

Snatched fails to grab your funny bone

May 11, 2017Chuck Duncan Leave a Comment

Schumer and Hawn try (too) hard to make us laugh… continue reading

★★, Movie Reviews, Movies Action, Adventure, Amy Schumer, Christopher Meloni, Comedy, Goldie Hawn, Ike Barinholtz, Joan Cusack, Snatched, Twentieth Century Fox, Wanda Sykes

My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea is one of the oddest movies I’ve ever seen

May 9, 2017Jeremy Fogelman Leave a Comment

‘My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea’ is a very clever, if superbly weird animated movie… continue reading

★★, Movie Reviews, Movies Animated, Comedy, GKIDS, Jason Schwartzman, Lena Dunham, Maya Rudolph, My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea, Reggie Watts, Susan Sarandon

Their Finest is a bittersweet slice of wartime romance

April 22, 2017Chuck Duncan Leave a Comment

Love, war and classic British cinema take you back to a long ago era… continue reading

★★★, Movie Reviews, Movies Bill Nighy, Comedy, Drama, Gemma Arterton, Jack Huston, Jake Lacy, Paul Ritter, Rachel Stirling, Richard E. Grant, Romance, Sam Claflin, STX Entertainment, Their Finest, War

20th Century Women and an A-list cast come to home video

April 20, 2017Kim Tibbs-Krober Leave a Comment

The true-life movie asks does it really take a village to raise a child?… continue reading

Home Viewing 20th Century Women, A24 Films, Annette Bening, Billy Crudup, Comedy, Drama, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Lionsgate, Lucas Jade Zumann

Donald Cried is an introspective indie from a new aspiring auteur

March 20, 2017Jeremy Fogelman Leave a Comment

‘Donald Cried’ began as a short film, and perhaps that was the ideal form for this concept and characters… continue reading

★★, Movie Reviews, Movies Comedy, Donald Cried, Drama, Jesse Wakeman, Kris Avedisian, Louisa Krause, Ted Arcidi, The Orchard

Table 19 has a few laughs but falls prey to the melodramatic mumblecore cliches

March 3, 2017Jeremy Fogelman Leave a Comment

‘Table 19’ is better as a comedy than a drama, but it keeps forgetting what it wants… continue reading

★★, Movie Reviews, Movies Amanda Crew, Anna Kendrick, Comedy, Craig Robinson, Fox Searchlight, June Squibb, Lisa Kudrow, Margo Martindale, Romance, Stephen Merchant, Table 19, Tony Revolori

Paterson pulses with indie spirit

January 27, 2017Jeremy Fogelman Leave a Comment

‘Paterson’ is a classic indie slice of life, with a few hints of absurdity and tragedy hidden beneath the surface… continue reading

★★, Movie Reviews, Movies Adam Driver, Barry Shabaka Henley, Bleecker Street, Chasten Harmon, Cliff Smith, Comedy, Golshifteh Farahani, Jim Jarmusch, Masatoshi Nagase, Paterson, Romance, William Jackson Harper

20th Century Women is a meandering, semi-charming slice of life

January 6, 2017Jeremy Fogelman Leave a Comment

‘20th Century Women’ does its job decently enough for its old school indie film vibe… continue reading

★★, Movie Reviews, Movies 20th Century Women, A24, A24 Films, Annette Bening, Billy Crudup, Comedy, Drama, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Lucas Jade Zumann, Lucas Jadezumann

Why Him? spices things up for the holidays

December 23, 2016Chuck Duncan Leave a Comment

The Christmas comedy definitely earns its R rating… continue reading

★★, Movie Reviews, Movies Bryan Cranston, Cedric the Entertainer, Christmas, Comedy, Griffin Gluck, James Franco, Keegan-Michael Key, Megan Mullally, Twentieth Century Fox, Why Him, Zoey Deutch

Office Christmas Party Review

December 11, 2016Chuck Duncan Leave a Comment

Sibling rivalry leads to the office party to end all office parties… continue reading

★★, Movie Reviews, Movies Christmas, Comedy, Courtney B. Vance, Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston, Jillian Bell, Kate McKinnon, Office Christmas Party, Olivia Munn, Paramount Pictures, Randall Park, Rob Corddry, T.J. Miller, Vanessa Bayer

Why all the hate? Keeping Up with the Joneses is just fine

October 21, 2016Jeremy Fogelman Leave a Comment

Keeping Up with the Joneses is a completely acceptable middle of the road action comedy… continue reading

★★, Movie Reviews, Movies Action, Comedy, Gal Gadot, Isla Fisher, Jon Hamm, Keeping Up With the Joneses, Matt Walsh, Twentieth Century Fox, Zach Galifianakis

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    NOVOCAINE    ★★★
    MICKEY 17   ★★★
    WOLF MAN   ★✩✩
    NOSFERATU   ★★✩
    WICKED   ★★★
    JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX   ★★★
    BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE   ★★✩
    ALIEN: ROMULUS   ★★★
    DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE   ★★★
    BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE   ★★★
    FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA   ★★✩
    THE FALL GUY   ★★★
    ABIGAIL   ★★★
    DUNE: PART TWO   ★★✩
    THE BEEKEEPER   ★★✩
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✦ HOME VIEWING ✦

    KIKI'S FOURTH INGREDIENT  ★★✩
    NOT MY FAMILY: MONIQUE SMITH STORY ★★★
    THERE'S NO WAY OUT  ★★✩
    GIVE ME BACK MY DAUGHTER ★★★
    JOSH'S THIRD SERVING  ★★★
    SHARI'S SECOND ACT  ★★✩
    WIFE STALKER  ★★★
    JENNA'S FIRST LOVE  ★★✩
    TRAPPED IN HER DORM ROOM  ★★✩
    PLAYING WITH FIRE  ★✩✩
    ROYAL-ISH  ★★✩
    TAKEN AT A BASKETBALL GAME  ★★★
    WHAT WOULD YOU KILL FOR?  ★✩✩
    THE LAST WOMAN WHO LIVED HERE  ★★✩
    I WAS OCTOMOM  ★★✩
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