The Assistant (2020)::rating::4::rating::4::rating::4

"Of course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough." -- John Huston as Noah Cross, in Chinatown. [su_dropcap size="5"]T[/su_dropcap]his serrated barb also applies to institutionalized ignorance. Wherever sexism, racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism are allowed to spread unchecked, they crawl like ivy--bending, twisting, and covering the landscape around them.…

ByTodd WoffordMay 28, 20200Comments

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Last Moment of Clarity (2020)::rating::3

Clarity just sits and rots in full view, a stirring testament to wasted time and carelessness.

ByTodd WoffordMay 27, 20200Comments

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Bad Boys for Life (2020)::rating::2

[su_dropcap size="5"]A[/su_dropcap]nybody who's seen enough sitcoms will be familiar with a clip show: At some point, when that Golden Girls $$$ starts running dry, they'll have Blanche, Sophia, and Dorothy sit out on the lanai and eat cheesecake. The ladies can reminisce about their amorous escapades, and each memory brings with it a pre-loaded flashback.…

ByTodd WoffordMay 22, 20200Comments

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Scoob! (2020)::rating::2.5

Scoob! ain’t half bad. Actually, I take that back. It’s exactly half bad. The shock is that it’s even half good.

ByTodd WoffordMay 18, 20200Comments

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Capone (2020)::rating::2

On one hand, this represents a new angle on the Capone legend. Unfortunately, this is also an eccentric, unpleasant film that gets lost telling a story nobody was asking to hear.

ByTodd WoffordMay 15, 20200Comments

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Just Mercy (2019)::rating::3.5

Mercy flirts with all these flaws, but the filmmakers thankfully show just enough restraint to let the power of its source material shine through.

ByTodd WoffordMay 13, 20200Comments

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Underwater (2020)::rating::2

This instantly invokes the openings of Alien and The Abyss, two classic movies that only remind us of everything this one lacks.

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Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)::rating::4

If Unplanned represented a pig slathered in lipstick, Never Rarely is beautiful in its unadorned frankness.

ByTodd WoffordMay 4, 20201Comment

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The Last Full Measure (2020)::rating::3

For all its good intent and ardent tone, The Last Full Measure is also a relentlessly underwhelming movie.

ByTodd WoffordMay 1, 20200Comments

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Downhill (2020)::rating::3

[su_dropcap size="5"]D[/su_dropcap]ownhill features so many repellant characters, it's difficult to pin down the one I hate the most: Billie (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) shrieks through her scenes like a hen-pecking shrew, devoid of any qualities any human might find appealing. Pete (Will Ferrell), her gelded milquetoast of a husband, sucks the air out of every room he inhabits.…

ByTodd WoffordApril 29, 20200Comments