Movie reviews of The Massie Twins

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

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

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. Review

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. Review

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

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. Review

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. Review

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. Review

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. Review

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

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. Review

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

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

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. Review

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

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. Review

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. Review

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

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. Review

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. Review

Though it’s consistently amusing, there aren’t a wealth of laugh-out-loud moments, making it marginally less entertaining than its immediate predecessors. Review

Even with a certain realistic sadness coursing throughout the silliness – briefly acknowledging the consequences of sustained idiocy, even in the realm of comic fiction – this isn’t the type of movie that possesses much resonance, save for the few exceptionally funny moments hidden amid the general absurdity. Review

The story is expectedly flimsy, relying primarily on little thrills and jokes as the characters encounter waggish specters or wander through creepy sets. Review

The film can’t really be described as a cautionary tale, but it isn’t without historical, biographical, and educational value, as Nolan explores a comprehensive backstory. Problematically, it just isn’t that entertaining. Review