Add Don’t Move to the ongoing list of decent 2024 horror offerings; this one is from producer Sam Raimi and currently streaming on Netflix. There’s really no way to discuss the film…
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An exercise in nostalgia: Netflix’s ‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’ has just enough humor and charm
To prepare for Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, I did nothing. I just jumped in and watched it. I thought it was OK. Then I went back and watched all of the…
Glen Powell proves himself: Netflix’s ‘Hit Man’ is fun and delightfully unpredictable
I owe Glen Powell a bit of an apology. I took a few digs at him a couple of weeks ago in my summer movie preview, saying I wasn’t all that fond…
Precariously close to Armageddon: Don’t miss Netflix’s compelling ‘The Bomb and the Cold War’ documentary series
If you are a lover of good documentaries, you must dedicate some time to Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War. The series—with nine episodes, each of them at least an…
Pace problems: Adam Sandler is fine in Netflix’s ‘Spaceman,’ but the direction is sloooow
Adam Sandler plays a distraught astronaut dumped by his wife halfway into a Jupiter mission in Spaceman, one of the strangest cinematic misfires you are likely to see this year—or in any…
Bad wedding: Millie Bobby Brown is great at breaking hearts and kicking ass in Netflix’s ‘Damsel’
Millie Bobby Brown definitely shouldn’t pay the caterer for her wedding in Damsel, because she has to wind up squaring off with a bloodthirsty dragon—and it’s totally the fault of the wedding’s…
Sweating stars: Netflix’s ‘The Greatest Night in Pop’ covers the craziness during the recording of ‘We Are the World’
I did not really like the song “We Are the World” when it was originally released back in 1985. I preferred “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”/“Feed the World” with Sting and Bono,…
In the Andes: Netflix’s ‘Society of the Snow’ is a surprisingly good take on the infamous rugby team plane crash
Remember Alive, the 1993 movie about the Uruguayan rugby team members who survived being stranded in the Andes after a plane crash, and took the unfortunate—but most arguably necessary—measure of eating those…
A director overindulges: Despite a great premise, solid performances and a good ending, Netflix’s ‘Leave the World Behind’ is just OK
Leave the World Behind, the new apocalyptic thriller from writer-director Sam Esmail, left me on the fence between “liked” and “disliked” more than any other 2023 film. It’s a great-looking movie with…