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M.C. Myers

Wearily Wading Through Avatar: The Way of Water

January 30, 2023 by M.C. Myers
Avatar The Way of Water

Avatar: The Way of Water is a monument to James Cameron’s business model but stutters on every other artistic or dramatic criterion imaginable.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2020s, Action, Fantasy, James Cameron, Kate Winslet, Movie Series, Sam Worthington, Science Fiction, Sequel, Zoe Saldana Leave a comment

Missing Morals in Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

January 20, 2023January 18, 2023 by M.C. Myers
Guillermo Del Toro Pinocchio

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio shimmers with excited physical energy but never coordinates its new story ideas with its old moral responsibilities.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2020s, Animated, Based on a Book, Christophe Waltz, Ewan McGregor, Finn Wolfhard, Guillermo Del Toro, Musical, Remake, Ron Perlman, Tilda Swinton Leave a comment

Misadapting Terror in The Pale Blue Eye

January 11, 2023January 10, 2023 by M.C. Myers
The Pale Blue Eye Christian Bale

The Pale Blue Eye has the cast of a masterpiece and the script of a write-off. It’s inoffensive afternoon viewing, but Poe would have his name removed from it.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2020s, Based on a Book, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Christian Bale, Gillian Anderson, Lucy Boynton, Scott Cooper, Thriller, Timothy Spall Leave a comment

Why Scrooge (1951) is the Best Version of A Christmas Carol

January 11, 2023December 29, 2022 by M.C. Myers

The 1951 version of Scrooge effortlessly recreates its candleglow world. This classic story has never been better.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 1950s, Alastair Sim, Based on a Book, Brian Desmond Hurst, Charles Dickens, Jack Warner, Remake Leave a comment

Dramatic Gaps and Tech Obsessions in The Shining

January 10, 2023December 21, 2022 by M.C. Myers
The Shining

The unassailable influence of Stanley Kubrick’s horror staple hides its dramatic shortcomings behind an illusion of prestige.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 1980s, Based on a Book, Horror, Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Stanley Kubrick Leave a comment

What is Everyone’s Problem With Star Wars: The Last Jedi?

December 15, 2022December 15, 2022 by M.C. Myers

Star Wars: The Last Jedi continues to be debated out of passionate frustration. This is an exploration of what’s right and wrong with this bizarre movie.

Categories Features, Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Action, Carrie Fisher, Daisey Ridley, Disney, John Boyega, Laura Dern, Mark Hamill, Movie Series, Oscar Isaac, Rian Johnson, Science Fiction, Sequel, Star Wars Leave a comment

The Pressure of Being Legendary in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis

November 30, 2022November 30, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Elvis

Luhrmann’s obsession with the image of Elvis creates an issue of authenticity. He makes people love the icon without believing in the man.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2020s, Austin Butler, Baz Luhrmann, Biopic, Drama Leave a comment

The Crisis of Believability in A Quiet Place Part II

November 16, 2022November 12, 2022 by M.C. Myers
A Quiet Place Part II

A Quiet Place Part II tries to squeeze more sequence out of a great concept. It succeeds despite straining for believability amid conflicting rules.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2020s, Action, Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Horror, John Krasinski, Movie Series, Science Fiction, Sequel Leave a comment

The Munsters is a Candy Corn Car Crash

November 1, 2022 by M.C. Myers
The Munsters

Rob Zombie makes a twisted costume contest nightmare out of an idea of The Munsters that never overcomes its lack of inspiration or its cast’s shortcomings.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2020s, Comedy, Horror, Remake, Rob Zombie, Sheri Moon Zombie Leave a comment

The Horror Dysfunction of Halloween III: Season of the Witch

October 23, 2022October 22, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Halloween III

The infamously misunderstood Halloween III is still little more than an unrefined pseudo-thriller on its own merits, unworthy of seasonal contention.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 1980s, Halloween, Horror, Movie Series, Sequel Leave a comment

Why Halloween Ends is Exactly What the Series Needed

December 6, 2022October 19, 2022 by M.C. Myers

Halloween Ends has the power to finish its cluttered horror series meaningfully, even if this isn’t what some of the series’ fans were hoping for.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2020s, Halloween, Horror, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Myers, Sequel Leave a comment

Werewolf by Night – The Middling Macabre

October 11, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Werewolf by Night

Werewolf by Night struggles for clarity within the constraints of an homage, sequel, origin story, and TV special in one. But it’s fun to watch it try.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2020s, Action, Comic Book Movie, Disney, Horror, Marvel, MCU, Movie Series Leave a comment

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) – Imposter Horror

October 3, 2022October 2, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Invasion of the Body Snatchers remakes a great B-movie with intellectual terror. It knows that irony makes it even scarier. This is pure horror joy.

Categories Film Reviews, Great Films Tags 1970s, Brooke Adams, Donald Sutherland, Horror, Philip Kaufman, Remake, Science Fiction Leave a comment

Cyrano (2021) – Glossing Over a Classic

September 3, 2022September 3, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Cyrano

Peter Dinklage is a powerful force for good in an otherwise listless adaptation that misinterprets whatever it doesn’t omit entirely.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2020s, Based on a Book, Ben Mendelsohn, Haley Bennett, Joe Wright, Musical, Peter Dinklage, Remake, Romance Leave a comment

Samaritan – Bum Rap

September 2, 2022August 29, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Samaritan

Samaritan accepts on faith that the audience thinks Stallone is a superhero. His charm, and almost nothing else, makes it sporadically watchable.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2020s, Action, Amazon, Comic Book Movie, Science Fiction, Sylvester Stallone Leave a comment

Sin (Il Peccato) – Holy Unhappiness

August 25, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Sin

Sin is a portrait of an artist in pain, with god-defying amounts of melancholy. Lovers of classic art cinema will enjoy this more than he enjoyed himself.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2020s, Biopic, Period Piece Leave a comment

Lightyear – Origin Sin

October 3, 2022August 15, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Lightyear

Lightyear was so tangled in its struggle for effective marketing that every aspect of its filmmaking became a lower, or nonexistent, concern.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2020s, Adventure, Chris Evans, James Brolin, Keke Palmer, Pixar, Prequel, Sci Fi, Taika Waititi Leave a comment

Prey: Consent to Kill

November 16, 2022August 5, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Prey Title Image

Prey expresses a strong period aesthetic powered by fresh performances but relies on a screenplay that misplaces its series’ core values.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2020s, 20th Century Fox, Action, Amber Midthunder, Dan Trachtenberg, Disney, Hulu, Predator, Science Fiction, Sequel Leave a comment

The Tragedy of Macbeth: Saggy Soliloquy

December 21, 2022July 29, 2022 by M.C. Myers
The Tragedy of Macbeth

This well-endowed Macbeth strives for greatness without the stomach for it. Stylized visuals can’t cover for all the meaning it misses.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2020s, Brendan Gleeson, Bruno Delbonnel, Denzel Washington, Drama, Frances McDormand, Joel Coen, Shakespeare Leave a comment

Zack Snyder’s Justice League: Prophet or False God?

July 26, 2022July 19, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Zack Snyder's Justice League

Zack Snyder’s Justice League delivers on the promise to release every second of footage shot for its original cut, for better and not much better.

Categories Film Reviews Tags Aquaman, Batman, Ben Affleck, Chris Terrio, Ezra Miller, Gal Gadot, Henry Cavill, Jason Momoa, Ray Fisher, Superman, Wonderwoman, Zack Snyder Leave a comment

The House: Nightmare Meditation

October 23, 2022July 15, 2022 by M.C. Myers
The House

The House shimmers with collective angst, a nightmare only stop-motion could make. So why does it make me feel so happy?

Categories Film Reviews Tags Animation, Helena Bonham Carter, Jarvis Cocker, Matthew Goode, Mia Goth, Netflix, Stop-Motion Leave a comment

Black Widow: Explosive Tedium

July 9, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Black Widow

Black Widow approaches genuine dramatic insight in parts but fails to make its title character more interesting than the performance is by default.

Categories Film Reviews Tags David Harbour, Disney, Florence Pugh, Marvel, Rachel Weisz, Ray Winstone, Scarlett Johansson Leave a comment

Obi-Wan Kenobi Part VI Review: Final Fizzle

November 14, 2022June 24, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Obi-Wan Kenobi Ewan McGregor

The final episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi gets everything to where it was going. Not even its best part could be worth the wait.

Categories Features Tags 2020s, Deborah Chow, Disney, Ewan McGregor, George Lucas, Hayden Christensen, Moses Ingram, Sequel, Star Wars, TV Show Leave a comment

Obi-Wan Kenobi Part V Review

June 22, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Obi-Wan Kenobi

Part V continues Obi-Wan Kenobi’s habit of steamrolling plausibility with reverse-engineered plot directions, with a small twist.

Categories Features Tags 2020s, Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Moses Ingram, Prequel, Science Fiction, Star Wars Leave a comment

Everything Everywhere All at Once: Exposition Epic

December 13, 2022June 18, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Everything Everywhere All at Once

Despite triumphant performances and high ambitions, Everything Everywhere All at Once hopes to be so well-understood that it overexplains its triumphs away.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2020s, Action, Comedy, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ke Huy Quan, Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu Leave a comment

Obi-Wan Kenobi: Part I-III Review

June 8, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Obi-Wan Kenobi

So far, Obi-Wan Kenobi seems to be relying more on Star Wars fans to be excited in the absence of creativity than on its own inspiration or technical ability.

Categories Features Tags 2020s, Deborah Chow, Disney, Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Science Fiction, Sequel, Star Wars, TV Series Leave a comment

Prometheus: Creator’s Angst

July 26, 2022June 1, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Prometheus Michael Fassbender

The much-maligned Prometheus hides an epic sci-fi fable despite failing to satisfy its own ambitions. Fassbender is genre-defining.

Categories Features, Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Alien, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Horror, Idris Elba, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Prequel, Ridley Scott, Science Fiction 1 Comment

Godzilla: King of the Monsters – Faithless Tribute

September 11, 2022June 1, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Godzilla King of the Monsters

Godzilla: King of the Monsters avoids the essence of its brand almost as aggressively as it avoids working on its script.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Bradley Whitford, Godzilla, Ken Watanabe, Michael Dougherty, Millie Bobby Brown, Movie Series, Sally Hawkins, Science Fiction, Sequel, Vera Farmiga 1 Comment

Locating Realism in The Revenant

November 28, 2022May 11, 2022 by M.C. Myers
The Revenant

The Revenant is a powerful statement on cinematic realism affected but not marred by its real toil. It’s old cinema made epic again.

Categories Featured Article Tags 2010s, Alejandro Inarritu, Based on a Book, Biopic, Emmanuel Lubezki, Leonardo DiCaprio, Revenge Thriller, Tom Hardy Leave a comment

Interstellar: Feeling Machine

April 29, 2022 by M.C. Myers

Interstellar’s brilliant technical filmmaking hinges on a story thwarted by melodrama. Its head is full of ideas, but its heart is empty.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Anne Hathaway, Casey Affleck, Christopher Nolan, Hans Zimmer, Hoyte Van Hoytema, Jessica Chastain, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Caine, Sci Fi, Science Fiction Leave a comment
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