Pre-dystopian misery movie reviews

Last movie reviews for a long time....

Sonic The Hedgehog: I thought this was pretty enjoyable. Sonic is an entertaining and likable character. Jim Carrey is in fine manic form. 

Portrait of a Lady on Fire: A beautifully shot female romance that's tbh a bit dull. Good performances, and the film goes more for emotion than titillation (although both actresses are gorgeous), but I expected something better.

Seberg: Another excellent Kristen Stewart performance carries this biopic. Too much time is spent on the fictional FBI agent who starts to feel bad about spying on her.

The Way Back: One of Ben Affleck's best performances. I liked how this movie truly was a sports movie that was about more than sports. It had literally the exact kind of classic sports movie ending, yet it was only the end of the 2nd act. What follows is a little less effective. It's a rushed finish, but a pretty good film.

Emma: Hardly the biggest fan of these types of movies, but I thought this was fairly charming. Good to see Anya Taylor-Joy do something light. 

Greed: This was just awful. Steve Coogan plays some fashion tycoon throwing an extravagant party. If it was meant to be a satire it wasn't smart or funny at all. If it was meant to be a drama it was far too dumb.

The Hunt: The hook of this movie, and the thing that got it delayed, was that it is about liberals literally hunting conservatives. But in the actual movie, it's really only the political stuff that doesn't work. It's just a ton of buzz words taking the place of real dialogue, and it's just not well done or very smart. Every other part of this movie is really good though. The characters are memorable. The kills are creative. It has some great dark humor. There's a final fight sequence that is brilliantly choreographed. And Betty Gilpin makes for one of the coolest, most badass action heroines in a long time.

So that does it for theatrical releases in 2020 probably. Kicking myself for not getting in one more movie before everything shut down.

The balcony is closed. 😥

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