Tag: Movie review
How to train your dragon: The hidden world Review
By John Mulderig
In his 1922 book What I Saw in America, the great Catholic writer G.K. Chesterton reflects on how beautiful New York’s Times...
Alita review: Good, but strangely feeble
By John Mulderig
Everything viewers need to know about the futuristic action adventure Alita: Battle Angel (Fox) is summed up in the line of dialogue...
Isn’t it Romantic review: Clever, but not for the youngsters
Funny thing about recent Hollywood comedies, many of them are anything but.
Whether marred by a post-Hangover desire to be outrageous or by actions or...
The Lego Movie 2 Review: Plastic? Sure, but shallow they ain’t
By Joseph McAleer
Everything is (still) awesome in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (Warner Bros.), a spirited and amusing sequel to 2014’s The Lego...
Mary Poppins Returns Review
By John Mulderig
It has taken more than half a century, but at long last Mary Poppins Returns (Disney). The result is a delightful sequel...
Vice Review
By John Mulderig
In 2008, Oliver Stone, a director not always associated with calm and impartial reflections on recent history, helmed a biopic of George...
Bumblebee Review
By John Mulderig
Does Bumblebee (Paramount) deserve a lot of buzz? While it shares the slightly preposterous premise of all the “Transformers” movies – being concerned,...
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Review
By John Mulderig
Traditionalists be warned: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Columbia) has little to do with your father’s Peter Parker.
Instead, this innovative but noisy and frenetic...
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Review
By John Mulderig
For a film about magic, 2016’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was strangely lacking in enchantment. So it’s welcome news that...