Filmrecensies van The Massie Twins

Celie’s journey, though wrought with hardships, is thought-provoking, educational, nerve-wracking and, finally, wholesome and triumphant, boasting a tear-jerking closing sequence. Recensie

Though Poor Things is strikingly outlandish and fantastical, armed with top-notch performances and a witty script, the cleverness is simply too buried beneath an overwrought story. Recensie

Problematically, the film unfolds like a psychological thriller, but without a steady stream of psychological intrigue and virtually no thrills. Recensie

The plot and the cast are notably mediocre. Recensie

Napoleon is something of a history lesson – pausing on major events without much speculation or commentary, offering a bit of artistry yet fleeting gusto. Recensie

The Marvels becomes an entirely extraneous episode, overflowing with plenty of the same stuff from before, but offering far less pizzazz. Recensie

The animation is effective to match the feature-length films (it follows the events of Toy Story 3), while the plot engagingly mirrors one of the major aspects of Toy Story 2. Recensie

It doesn’t help when the story here is so convoluted and silly, and when the wise-cracking main characters fail to take any of the situations seriously. Recensie

The originality appears ever more fleeting. It likely needed to be so much more over-the-top to be memorable. Recensie

In the realm of a horror picture, some of it is understandable, but any artistic efforts that diminish the film’s ability to convey its story or message become more detrimental than stylish. Recensie

The period, the topic, and the players may be important, particularly with the historical components, but this project wasn’t designed to be effective or entertaining in the process. Recensie

The Creator isn’t without some exciting moments and entertaining visuals, but it can’t quite build an identity of its own, nor can it tell its tale in a way that feels judicious, that flows like a sci-fi epic with a confidence in its plotting and formulation. Recensie

A few vehicle chases and hand-to-hand combat sequences prove mildly engaging, but it’s all too obvious when blue-screen, bad CG blood and explosions, and unconvincing stunts eat up the brunt of the excitement. Recensie

A combination of two unharmonious concepts into a curiously satisfying experiment that still involves twisty whodunit essentials. Recensie

The pacing is swift and a couple of surprises make the climax more engaging. The falling action is mostly satisfying as well, somewhat padded with extraneous notes on personal, seemingly unrelated dramas, though once again, the logistics of easy access to telephones is something of a conundrum. Recensie

It’s a stoner comedy without comedy, almost indescribably juvenile in its scripting and jesting. Recensie

The story is uninteresting to an astonishing degree. And Blue Beetle almost seems to go out of its way to be bland. Recensie

The conquer-the-world machinations, the unoriginal action choreography, the blandly-written characters, and the unstoppable formidability of the superspy make it so hard to care about any of it. Recensie

There’s virtually no comic relief; the sense of dread and the visualized brutalities are relentless, which makes the two-hour runtime somewhat overwhelming. Recensie

The film isn’t continuously funny, nor is it consistently suspenseful, but it does do a spectacular job of sending up Hitchcock’s classics, even when it’s a little too obvious and easy. Recensie

The Baker doesn’t possess the originality necessary to warrant its existence; this plot and these characters are entirely too familiar and blandly presented to make this a worthwhile bit of entertainment. Recensie

The story is convoluted and weakly defined; reasons behind soul-collecting, as well as ghostly capabilities, are largely ignored. Recensie

Unfortunately, there aren’t enough great moments to make this production altogether entertaining – despite a few solid, littler chuckles and some clever, noirish, metaphoric blunders. Recensie

Some of the best moments dwell on Mel Brooks’ signature brand of humor, from breaking the fourth wall to making references to other properties to racial jabs to self-aware wisecracks. Of course, there’s also juvenile or crude humor, and so many one-liners that not all of them can possibly land effectively. Recensie