I’m not here to fight about this film - since the conversation has already descended into chaos and I don’t think anyone’s minds can be changed at this point - but I just want to reiterate how well the movie’s resolution works in my eyes. Whatever your misgivings may be with the comedy that comes before, I think it’s almost impossible to deny the feeling of that final scene, and it’s easily the most effective beat of the entire film.…

I get so sad every time the Benny Safdie segment starts because I realize this is almost over and I just… wish it would never end? I’ve said it a million times (and probably already in one of these reviews), but I literally wish I could live in this film forever. Y’all can have your Hogwarts or Middle-earth or [insert fan-favorite fictional world here], but give me PTA’s specific vision of the San Fernando Valley in the 1970s, and I’m…

Honestly, it’s nowhere near as bad as I was expecting, but that doesn’t mean it’s all that good either.

A Journal for Jordan takes a stirring true story and adapts it for the big screen in the most maudlin manner possible, and, as such, its sugary sweet sentimentality can often feel at odds with the very dark drama being depicted. The production values are likewise pretty poor (it can’t counter those “Hallmark movie” critiques), and it’s obscenely overlong at nearly…

The King’s Man is nowhere near the bombastic brilliance of the first film but leagues above the atrocious dreck known as The Golden Circle, and y’know what… sometimes that’s enough! Sure, it doesn’t rewrite the rulebook for spy films the way the original did, but it’s not really trying to do that either? It’s content telling this smaller but still cinematically satisfying story that melds the spy and war film genres, and while the plotting can at times feel a…