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Tenet (2020)
Who knows what the heck is going on?
The bigger problem is, who cares?
Really. It's not clear who anyone is, why they are doing whatever it is they are doing and, as stated at the outset, what the heck is going on.
Coming Home in the Dark (2021)
Pointless, thoughtless, and offensive
To ascribe the pointless homicidal rampage in this film to the abuse the antagonists suffered while they were children insults and misrepresents the genuine suffering of real life victims of such horrors.
This offensive premise is then baked into an implausible, illogical plot.
The story is so ill-conceived, in fact, that it totally undermines all the other potentially positive aspects of the movie, which include good work by the cinematographers and decent performances by the actors.
Meaning it's an insult to them, too.
Booksmart (2019)
Me too, I don't get it
Caricatures not characters and look at me aren't I funny scenes and dialogue come on way, way strong right from the outset, so much so that I felt no inclination at all to watch it to the end.
The end of the first act, I mean, that's how far off the mark this film was for me.
So I didn't.
Even more curious than the high viewer reviews are the even higher critic reviews.
Maybe it's just me? Nah, it's the film. It really isn't that good.
No Time to Die (2021)
Strange, so many hyper-low reviews for an enormously entertaining film
The film is a gas, Craig is great, the action and stunt sequences amazing, and it has the most memorable ending of any Bond film ever.
The overall average rating is reasonable enough but all the 1s and 2s etc. Are really uncalled for.
Or maybe they are a reflection of how this Bond outing gets under your skin like no other?
Or maybe there is some kind of anti-EON bot generating them? Many of them are almost identical to each other.
Very strange.
Anyway, it is not a bad or mediocre film. Quite the contrary: it's a great addition to the franchise and a fitting send-off for Craig, arguably the best Bond of them all. (Arguably. Connery is also arguably still no. 1.)
Duel (1971)
This guy is going places
Whoever made this knows what they're doing. Look out Hollywood!
Unhinged (2020)
I was entertained.
Go in with low expectations and you might not be disappointed.
Maybe.
You might even enjoy some of the ride.
I did anyway.
Though it was pretty dumb.
The Undoing: The Undoing (2020)
Yawn. Yawn. Yawn.
I can't believe all these ratings are for real because this is not that good.
The first three quarters of this episode are a big yawn.
The characters are two dimensional stereotypical rich Manhattan beautiful people.
The first even remotely real and relatable characters to show up are cops.
Nicole is just Nicole as older Nicole and Hugh is just Hugh as older Hugh
Especially Hugh.
Yawn.
Yawn.
Yawn.
Oh, and then something happens but you you knew it would and so you just wonder whatever took it so long.
Take Shelter (2011)
Warning - bad ending
It could have been a contender! Tight, gripping performances by the principals. The actors really do hook you in here - or at least, they really did hook me in. The story was working for the most part, too, although tighter editing and cutting redundant scenes would have improved matters. So as the ending approached I thought, okay, pretty good, maybe even excellent but for a couple of flaws. And then ... an ending that is both trite and inconsistent with things that we have witnessed happening in the movie. To explain fully this would have to contain spoilers but I want to warn those who have yet to see the film to be wary of the Metacritic reviews. The movie has merit but it's ending, simply put, is poorly written and disappointing. You've been warned.