Matt has written 250 reviews for films during 2019.
2018
-I like Knoxville’s post-Jackass aesthetic of blending real stunts with fiction stories, but his acting here is so forced, with a thick, affected accent. You always know when he’s doing his own stunts because suddenly he sounds like Johnny Knoxville again, cackling and yelping like a loon sans accent. Bad Grandpa was a better character for him, with a story that made better use of his physical gifts.
-Speaking of Jackass, the best performance in the film is Chris Pontius,…
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2019
Liked 7
Brad Pitt head out into deep space to search for his missing father in Dad Astra, coming soon to theaters everywhere.
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1991
Liked 6
This might not be as good as the pinball game it inspired, but it’s still very solid. Christina Ricci became a star on the basis of the movie, and rightfully so, but I don’t think I appreciated how funny and weird Christopher Lloyd is as Fester/Gordon. I’m not sure I even realized that was Doc Brown until the sequel came out.
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1949
Liked 3
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
“So we have this charming 30-minute short of The Wind in the Willows, which is all about a reprobate toad who loves driving fast. What should we pair it with to pad it out to feature length?”
“How about a terrifying horror story about a man relentlessly pursued by a headless horseman?”
“Hmmm ... can the horseman kill the guy with a flaming pumpkin?”
“Obviously! We’re making a kids film here!”
“Sold!”
So these two halves do not go together…
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1985
Liked 11
People who do not the 1980s must be absolutely baffled by this movie. He loses his money? Why doesn’t he just go to an ATM? And why don’t these people just text each other? What is a subway token?
I guess you could call After Hours dated; I prefer to enjoy it for its documentary qualities of New York in this era. Also enjoyable: Griffin Dunne’s unibrow.
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2019
I can’t say for sure Will Smith’s Genie will give me nightmares. But I wouldn’t be surprised if he did. He just looks so ... weird, like the original Genie of Aladdin decided to try to win the Mr. Olympia contest. Why is the Genie so shredded? Why would a Genie have abs?!?
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2019
Liked 8
Feel more like a James Cameron movie than a Robert Rodriguez movie to me.
[whispers] That’s a good thing.
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