Eric D. Snider, Author at CrookedMarquee

Eric D. Snider

Eric D. Snider has been a film critic since 1999, first for newspapers (when those were a thing) and then for the Internet. He was born and raised in Southern California, lived in Utah in his 20s, and has been in Portland since 2005. He is glad to meet you, probably.

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REVIEW: <i>Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again</i> Is Like the First <i>Mammia Mia!</i>, but Good

REVIEW: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Is Like the First Mammia Mia!, but Good

July 20th, 2018 0

Mamma Mia! was a badly written headache based on a badly written live musical, adapted for the screen by the same people who had staged it on...

REVIEW: <i>The Equalizer 2</i> Equalizes More Things

REVIEW: The Equalizer 2 Equalizes More Things

July 20th, 2018 0

At the end of The Equalizer (2014), you probably thought everything that needed equalizing had been taken care of. Wrong, dummy! The Equalizer...

REVIEW: <i>Blindspotting</i> an Explosive Racial Comedy and Oakland Love Letter

REVIEW: Blindspotting an Explosive Racial Comedy and Oakland Love Letter

July 18th, 2018 0

Blindspotting is an explosive racial comedy, a love letter to Oakland, and a jumpstart to the movie career of its star, Daveed Diggs, who co-wrote...

REVIEW: <i>Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana</i> Guilty of Being an Entertaining Doc (Fantasia Festival)

REVIEW: Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana Guilty of Being an Entertaining Doc (Fantasia Festival)

July 17th, 2018 0

(Screened at the 2018 Fantasia Festival; distribution plans not yet announced.) Owing to the slippery definition of the word and our robust (for...

REVIEW: <i>Cold Skin</i> a High-Brow Look at Fish-Monsters (Fantasia Festival)

REVIEW: Cold Skin a High-Brow Look at Fish-Monsters (Fantasia Festival)

July 15th, 2018 0

(Screened at the 2018 Fantasia Festival; scheduled for theatrical and VOD release by Samuel Goldwyn Films on Sept. 7) Cold Skin starts with the...

REVIEW: <i>Tales from the Hood 2</i>: Like If Spike Lee Made <i>Creepshow</i> (Fantasia Festival)

REVIEW: Tales from the Hood 2: Like If Spike Lee Made Creepshow (Fantasia Festival)

July 15th, 2018 0

(Screened at the 2018 Fantasia Festival. Universal will release it later this year, probably straight to DVD.) I never saw Tales from the Hood,...

REVIEW: <i>Unfriended: Dark Web</i> Is Too Silly to Terrify, but Fun to Go Along With (Fantasia Festival)

REVIEW: Unfriended: Dark Web Is Too Silly to Terrify, but Fun to Go Along With (Fantasia Festival)

July 15th, 2018 0

(Screened at the 2018 Fantasia Festival; opens July 20 in U.S. theaters) Unfriended: Dark Web has no connection to 2015's Unfriended except that...

REVIEW: Banal Script Really Puts the 'Crap' in <i>Skyscraper</i>

REVIEW: Banal Script Really Puts the 'Crap' in Skyscraper

July 13th, 2018 0

How you gonna hire one-legged Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to insect the safety features of your spectacular new Hong Kong high-rise, then let bad guys...

REVIEW: Quiet Zombies in <i>The Night Eats the World</i> (Fantasia Festival)

REVIEW: Quiet Zombies in The Night Eats the World (Fantasia Festival)

July 13th, 2018 0

(Screened at the 2018 Fantasia Festival; now playing in U.S. theaters and VOD) The Night Eats the World ("La nuit a dévoré le monde") has a...

REVIEW: <i>Ant-Man</i> AND <i>the Wasp</i>? In This Economy?

REVIEW: Ant-Man AND the Wasp? In This Economy?

July 6th, 2018 0

As those still weeping over Avengers: Infinity War will tell you between muffled sobs, there's big doin's afoot in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But...

REVIEW: Fourth <i>Purge</i> Movie <i>The First Purge</i> Is Prequel to First <i>Purge</i>

REVIEW: Fourth Purge Movie The First Purge Is Prequel to First Purge

July 4th, 2018 0

The question we had when The Purge came out in 2013 was: Wait, how does this work? In this near-future version of America, there's a 12-hour period...

REVIEW: <i>Uncle Drew</i> Has NBA Stars Clowning Around, Nothing Else

REVIEW: Uncle Drew Has NBA Stars Clowning Around, Nothing Else

June 29th, 2018 0

Uncle Drew, a basketball comedy directed by Charles Stone III (Drumline, Mr. 3000), ought to be about the title character, a septuagenarian who was...

REVIEW: <i>Sicario: Day of the Soldado</i> Nearly As Bad As Its Title

REVIEW: Sicario: Day of the Soldado Nearly As Bad As Its Title

June 29th, 2018 0

In Sicario: Day of the Soldado, the grim, unpleasant sequel to the 2015 film that grappled with the morality of the drug war, there is no more...

Halftime Report: 2018 in Movies (So Far)

Halftime Report: 2018 in Movies (So Far)

June 28th, 2018 1

Statistics! Who doesn't love 'em?? We're going to look at the movies released in the first half of 2018, but let me warn you: There are probably a...

REVIEW: Unlike Life, <i>Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom</i> Does Not Find a Way

REVIEW: Unlike Life, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Does Not Find a Way

June 22nd, 2018 0

Bad news, everyone: dinosaurs are boring now. People were so preoccupied with whether they could make a fifth Jurassic Park movie, they didn't stop...

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