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Halloween Ends (2022)::rating::1::rating::1::rating::1

H alloween Ends exists as both blessing and curse. The blessing is, as the title suggests, it does indeed end. The curse is everything else about it. For 111 godless,…

Meet Cute (2022)::rating::2.5

M ovies have long depicted the cosmos meddling in affairs of the heart, so it's refreshing to see a character actually meddling back. Meet Cute is a premise that could've yielded…

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022)::rating::4

I t's not often a movie presents us with a completely new creation, but here we are: Marcel the Shell totters on what looks like two little troll doll feet.…

Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)::rating::2.5

W here the Crawdads Sing builds a preposterous murder mystery alongside a preposterous coming-of-age story, and hopes that one will distract you from the other. In fact, this film is…

Sep 2022

Confess, Fletch (2022)::rating::3.5

L et me begin this review with a confession of my own: I couldn't have been less enthusiastic about a reboot of the Fletch franchise. The two original films made such…

Jul 2022

Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)::rating::3

I f Thor: Ragnarok was a welcome attempt to infuse the God of Thunder with a disarming sense of goofiness, then Love and Thunder is an all-out surrender to it. The Shakespearean heft…

Lightyear (2022)::rating::3

I remember reading a scathing review for one of Paul McCartney's solo albums. From anyone else, the author argued, the new songs would've been just fine. Adequate. But this…

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)::rating::4

G ood Luck to You, Leo Grande presents an interesting flip on Mike Nichols' The Graduate. In that enduring classic, Dustin Hoffman's wallflower college grad falls for the self-assured charm and…

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Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)::rating::3

G iven that it's based on a video game I never played, loaded with SEGA references I'll never get, and populated with characters I only mildly care about, Sonic the Hedgehog…