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The China Hustle (2017)
An inconvenient truth for Hollywood
A wake up call for Chinese company potential investors.
Green Book (2018)
Best Picture in my book
Beautiful storytelling. Edited properly. Acted wonderfully. Thoroughly entertaining. No agendas.
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Best movie of 2018
Rami Malek was phenomenal. Best Lead Male Actor for sure. Thoroughly enjoyable movie. Band interaction was fun and interesting.
Roma (2018)
So Netflix only, huh?
Fine. Won't watch it.
Blah, blah I guess my review is too short.
First Man (2018)
Distant but impressive
I enjoyed the realism of everything beyond the characters. The daring of the US space program comes through.
The Favourite (2018)
Same style, but gratuitous lewdness
Loved The Lobster and To Kill a Sacred Deer, but found myself questioning the gratuitous lewdness. Everyone has their limit in their entertainment; I guess I just reached mine. That said, I believe it was executed fairly well for what it was. Makeup, costume and sound were highlights.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
It's great for what it is
It's a harshly dark, turn-the-tables, tale of medical doctors that contains important messages about professionalism and empathy. I think it should get an Oscar nomination for Best Picture, but alas it's a bit too fringy for the academy.
The Shape of Water (2017)
Let's be serious
It's a Beauty and the Beast MerMAN movie that was drowned with explicit sexual content and contained promising, though disjointedly-conveyed, race/power/isolation messages. The movie could have cut 15 properly-selected minutes without sacrificing effect.
Lady Bird (2017)
Frontrunner for "Best Director" Oscar
Good acting, entertaining, and with a riskier message in today's Hollywood. That is: that the Catholic church/school may not be all that bad and family & home can be a good thing.
I didn't give it a 9 since the producer/director decided there needed to be more sacrilegious and sexual content to appease those that would oppose the "risky" message.
Seems like a good opportunity for a female director to land the "Best Director" Oscar.
The Post (2017)
A political editorial inserted in the entertainment section of a newspaper
About the time Trump entered office (October 2016) the script was awarded. Nixon's blocking The Post reporters and photographers from covering White House events in the movie is clearly inserted as a parallel to Trump's singling out of CNN.
That said, there was a lot of good talent that participated in the picture and I really enjoyed the build up, via the paper production process and music, that heightened the importance and drama of the choice to publish.
Pretty Woman (1990)
Hookerealla fantasy
There's science fiction that's more plausible than this movie. Let's start with the John's fiction. Apparently this is his first prostitute. He's not abusive, demeaning, and has no fetishes or perversions. Next we have a prostitute with no serious family or abuse issues, substance abuse or STD's. I guess because she's a executive hooker, she has to be white US citizen too.
Everything Must Go (2010)
A few grimacing chuckles, and hmm-wow's too
Some characters seemed a little "Hollywood" to me, but some dark comedy moments and unexpected alcoholic truths made the movie definitely worth watching.
Also, while Will Ferrel did a respectable job with the role, an actor whose specialty is finely-nuanced expression, versus Ferrell's range of exaggeration, may have been better suited.
Interstellar (2014)
Ridiculously far-fetched - even for sci-fi fantasy
What a waste. I'm a sci-fi fan and even I give this movie only a "6."
A lot of talented actors, quality sound & cinematography, but the screenplay really doesn't hold up.
In addition to being too far-flung in the number of principal characters, it's too long, and becomes almost comical at times in its plot twists.
The movie would have been better served to have: - limit principal characters/stories and provide greater depth for remaining ones - Make the earth-related issues more believable
Your time is better spent on a lot of other, higher-quality, sci-fi movies.
Why Him? (2016)
Jonah and James: Won't get fooled again
Jonah Hill, James Franco, and another: "Hey I've got only a trailer length's worth of funny content for a new flick that's another ATM for us! We'll stick in some (now formulaic) prolonged disturbing sexual content that differentiates us/the film as young and hip."
Really, if you saw the trailer you saw the best of this movie. Whoever made the trailer really deserves a big payout for creating something people would look forward to as a funny diversion from all the serious political crap of late.
It's got a good cast that's wasted on the lame writing, but hey it's a pay check!