The Commuter: In a radical non-departure from his other recent movie roles, Liam Neeson plays a man who must take out multiple bad guys when his family is threatened--but this time, it's on PUBLIC TRANSIT, baby!
All the Money In the World: Proves it's possible to make a movie trailer 4.8 times vibier than the actual film, while also helpfully reminding us that extreme, sociopathic greed can be extreme and sociopathic.
Darkest Hour: Unable to compete with the massive production budget of "Dunkirk," this dark, muted film mines the same slice of history for 1/3 of the cost, limiting the epic scope by reimagining Churchill as a semi-coherent, Johnnie-Walker-swilling, subterranean tunnel-dweller.
Lady Bird: Borrowing G. K. Chesterton's summation of Robinson Crusoe, "[Christine] is a [girl] on a small rock with a few comforts just snatched from the sea: the best thing in the [film] is simply the list of things saved from the wreck. The greatest of poems is an inventory."
The Greatest Showman: Marvel's Wolverine franchise reboots with this confusing new origins story based on the twin hypotheticals that none of the X-Men ever discovered their superhuman powers, and that big musical numbers are adequate replacement for character development.
All the Money In the World: Proves it's possible to make a movie trailer 4.8 times vibier than the actual film, while also helpfully reminding us that extreme, sociopathic greed can be extreme and sociopathic.
I maybe saw 3 movies in theaters in the previous year. Then I got MoviePass for Christmas. They have no idea how much money they're about to lose on me. For your amusement, I shall tweet one-sentence reviews of every movie I see. Buckle up.