But the worst thing the filmmakers do is waste their premise, turning it into a random circus of chase and escape that barely relates to the ideas present in the opening act and promised right there in the title. The movie isn’t good, the fact that it could have been, arguably should have been, is maybe the most dispiriting aspect of all this nonsense, and it’s likely my disappointment makes me despise The Secret Life of Pets even more than I potentially would have otherwise.

Latest Tarzan Dangles from a Vine of Pointless Indifference The good news in regards to director David Yates’ (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) African adventure The Legend of Tarzan is that it doesn’t spend a heck of a lot of time going through the famous character’s backstory. Instead, screenwriters Adam Cozad (Jack Ryan: Shadow […]

While I can’t say I was as energized by The Purge: Election Year as much as I was the two stories that came before it, I’m still fairly enthused by what it is DeMonaco is doing here, this third chapter in the saga a politically astute meat grinder that’s worthy of a look.

With Radcliffe and especially Dano fully committed to material no matter how extreme things might get, this human comedy of the divine become a soulful outburst of imagination and insight born out of disarray and chaos. Swiss Army Man is downright wonderful, the multifaceted minutia of its various marvels so rapturously exhilarating they’re worthy of applause.