Movie reviews of The Massie Twins

There may be beautiful moments, but with each one comes a handful of unnecessary follow-ups; for this premise, it’s too much of a challenge to populate it with more than three hours’ worth of essential material. The running time is a clear hindrance. Review

It’s creative and engaging, but ultimately too long for general audiences, despite Scheider giving a tremendous performance as a commercially accomplished yet personally flawed showman. Review

It’s essentially a two-hour, steady build to a strikingly self-destructive climax. Overall, however, it’s as brilliantly wry as it is disturbing and arcane. Review

In its adventurous efforts to focus on fighting and fleeing, intellectual concepts are abandoned for sillier ones. Review

Donat does a decent job, but the script paints his persona as a caricature, not a well-developed, endearing mentor whose impact reverberates through the lives and accomplishments of his graduates. Review

The performances all around are a tremendous boon to this effort, as is the scripting; amidst crushing poverty, limited potential for the future, personal tragedies, and various threats to maintaining ordinary livelihoods, these characters demonstrate an inspiring perseverance and determination. Review

The story is flimsy (and thankfully brief), but it’s an undisguised setup for impressive wrecks, tense chases, and monster-truck demolitions. Review

The pacing leaves a little to be desired, some of the writing betrays a sloppiness in storytelling, the villain doesn’t appear to have the clout required to be so connected with the city’s underworld, and the parting shots are quite the misstep. Review

Logistically, many of the duplicities seem wholly improbable, while the climax is a rambunctious, over-the-top ordeal that doesn’t match the realism and carefulness of the introductory moments, similar to the closing scenes from comparably-themed projects like Pacific Heights and Malice. Review

Last Embrace is a tonal and storytelling mess, perpetually uncertain as to what it wants to say or emulate; it can’t merely copy a bunch of other movies and motifs, under the guise of an homage, and hope to present something original or entertaining. Review

Despite the wealth of obligatory elements, the tone remains appropriately severe, with an entertainingly destructive finale. Review

The timely concepts, almost stripped down of influential, observable sci-fi additives, are somewhat slow; making its point, perhaps repetitively, tends to supersede the entertainment value of a couple struggling to go up against an exceedingly oppressive, not-so-futuristic system. Review

A few funny moments and a handful of potentially quotable one-liners make The Emperor’s New Groove engaging for kids, but it undoubtedly lacks the maturity and potency of Disney’s more magical Renaissance era. Review

As it approaches the climax, it opts for a few ridiculous developments that aim to exploit standard werewolf movie tropes rather than the newness of what director Mike Nichols established at the start. In the end, though the performances are memorable, it’s the parts that don’t work that outdo the more effective ones. Review

It wastes not a minute, since the running time is barely over an hour, detailing the curse and concluding it in the only way possible for this monumental horror film that would pave the way for so many derivative productions after it... Review

The impressive casting and design tend to get lost in the meandering that comes with an excessive runtime; no matter how bizarrely amusing this odyssey into the mayhem of a whirlwind romance and its sticky complications gets, the lengthiness thwarts its success. Review

The end result is potent, largely thanks to the superb special makeup effects and to Moore’s acting. Plus, from a technical standpoint – including the cinematography – The Substance is phenomenal, generating a genre-bending piece boasting bold, indelible qualities. Review

The general slowness of the events provides more time to dwell on the plot and its personas, but it also stretches out what should have been a swifter telling. Review

A Real Pain isn’t concerned with telling a unique or engaging story; rather, it’s an in-depth character study, providing modest entertainment in both its examination of disparate personalities and with its wry commentary on how eccentric people can impact the conventional. Review

So much work has gone into the visuals; the animation, the environments, the textures, the colors, the lighting, and the musculature are each phenomenal. Review

It has a lot of heart, even with all of the sequences that don’t establish much innovation for children’s pictures. Review

In this unique depiction of the 1972 attack, almost all intelligence is second-hand. Review

Though quick and only cursory in its examinations, it’s remarkably profound; this short subject is practically an ode come to serene, visual life. Review

The stunts, which should have been a highlight, are so bogged down by bad graphics and senseless choreography that they fail to inspire suspense. Review