Eric D. Snider REVIEW: Rom-Com Tropes Slightly Elevated in Crazy Rich Asians Aug 15th, 2018There are two things about Crazy Rich Asians that separate it from most romantic comedies. One is that it's good. Based on Kevin Kwan's bestselling...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: No One's Expectations Low Enough to Enjoy Slender Man Aug 13th, 2018Even by the low standards of lame PG-13 horror movies about teenage girls being harassed by supernatural entities, Slender Man is quite bad. Based...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: Summer of 84 Just a Big Pile of '80s Tropes with No Twist Aug 10th, 2018Summer of 84 is by the trio of Canadian directors -- François Simard, Anouk Whissell, and Yoann-Karl Whissell, known collectively as RKSS (Roadkill...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: The Meg Not Stupid Enough to Meet Its Full Potential Aug 10th, 2018Like most action movies, The Meg begins with its tough-guy hero (who is the best of the best at what he does) performing a mission that goes awry,...
Eric D. Snider A First-Timer's Report from Fantasia Festival Aug 9th, 2018If you're like me, you 1) assumed the Fantasia International Film Festival just showed Disney's Fantasia on a loop for a few days; and 2) are a...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: Dog Days Should Be Terrible But Isn't Aug 8th, 2018You know those Garry Marshall ensemble comedies like Mother's Day and New Year's Eve, where various strangers' lives intersect around a particular...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: Eighth Grade Much Funnier, Slightly Less Painful Than Eighth Grade Aug 7th, 2018Bo Burnham, the first YouTube comedian to leverage his online fame into a mainstream career, is 27 years old and a boy. Yet he has somehow written...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: The Darkest Minds Cheerfully Portrays the Death of All Children Aug 3rd, 2018With basic-cable production values and an exceedingly generic story, The Darkest Minds is the latest teenage dystopian fantasy film based on a...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: A Gentle, Watered-Down Christopher Robin Aug 3rd, 2018Disney's Christopher Robin is not a biography of Christopher Robin Milne, the boy featured in his father A.A.'s Winnie-the-Pooh books. There was a...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: More Like The Spy Who Dumped Meh Aug 2nd, 2018The two main characters in The Spy Who Dumped Me are ordinary women who get caught up in international espionage and turn out to be -- what are the...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: Mission: Impossible — Fallout Will Entertain You or Die Trying Jul 27th, 2018Tom Cruise has been starring in Mission: Impossible movies for 22 years, and his character, un-killable super-spy Ethan Hunt, has been on the job...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: Teen Titans Go! To the Movies Just for Kids (and Their Geek Parents) Jul 27th, 2018Teen Titans Go! To the Movies, the very meta big-screen adaptation of the Cartoon Network series Teen Titans Go!, is about a quintet of adolescent...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: Sorry to Bother You Is Lying, It's Actually Quite Pleased to Bother You Jul 27th, 2018It would seem rapper and activist Boots Riley watched a few Michel Gondry movies (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Be Kind Rewind, etc.) and...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Is Like the First Mammia Mia!, but Good Jul 20th, 2018Mamma 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...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: The Equalizer 2 Equalizes More Things Jul 20th, 2018At the end of The Equalizer (2014), you probably thought everything that needed equalizing had been taken care of. Wrong, dummy! The Equalizer...
