Movie reviews of The Massie Twins

This early work demonstrates the auteur’s honing of his craft, which would soon produce more polished efforts with similar themes. Review

Unfortunately, Esme, My Love doesn’t fully embrace its potential for horror; even with standard sequences of supernatural frights, complete with nerve-jangling strings and percussion and an amplifying hysteria, it never truly goes off the rails. Review

So much pointless, monotonous, repetitive fantasy fighting occupies the runtime, contributing to one of the most uninteresting of all the DC entries. Even the humor is dry, resorting to frivolous one-liners and half-hearted jabs before diving back into computer-animation-drenched clashes. Review

The premise is still too simple for this colossal running time. Review

It may be unoriginal, goofy, and frivolous, but the bulk of it is still lighthearted and fun. Review

Even with the heightened bloodshed, it’s virtually indistinguishable from the other theatrical entries. Review

The end result is moderate fun only as it’s transpiring – which is periodically bogged down by an overlong runtime and the script’s desperate struggle to find uniqueness. Review

With generic, bland characters and relationships, Creed III feels exactly like it was manufactured from a movie template, infused with fist-pumping montages, motivational speeches, and reparative interactions, playing out woodenly and unconvincingly, despite the decent acting abilities of the cast. Review

An apt soundtrack and ‘80s horror movie musical cues are the high point, along with jumpy scares and some hilariously brutal bear butchery, but the poor pacing and the excess of human fodder insist that there isn’t enough of a plot to stretch this ordeal out to feature length. Review

The proportions of this project are all off; attention is paid to the wrong people at the wrong times, developing subplots that are just too tangential to be poignant, and wasting valuable minutes on trivial details. Review

It’s a wealth of visual chaos that hopes to distract from the absolutely nonsensical ideas. Review

If the storytelling wasn’t so uninspired and awkward, it would be infinitely easier to admire the dance troupe’s undeniably spectacular vigor and remarkably sinewy figures... Review

Knock at the Cabin is a competent little exercise in tension. It’s weird, traumatic, and violent, borrowing ideas from Knowing, 10 Cloverfield Lane, and The Mist as it explores thought-provoking themes of destruction, salvation, and sacrifice. Review

It’s not enough; Under Capricorn’s plot and pacing crawl along, unable to keep up interest, trudging through exposition even when unsurprising revelations finally come – and despite a rather satisfying conclusion. Review

The visuals and basic premise are based on the comic book series by James O’Barr, which lends to the gothic makeup and styling, as well as the themes of revenge and salvation, but this latest chapter can’t find anything new to say. Review

What Plane does well, it does very well – primarily with the thrills of helpless victims finding hope in a dedicated savior. Review

The initial setup is a touch too much in the realm of sci-fi, struggling to sell the technological advancement, but much of that can be forgiven when supporting or background roles get to inject a line or two of sensibility, particularly as many characters fail to reasonably react when introduced to the spookily lifelike toy girl. Review

Fortunately, there’s slightly more to this picture than uninterrupted dialogue in a single location, but it’s nevertheless a tough sell to general audiences; despite heartrending performances, the structure and pacing of Women Talking will likely only appeal to viewers familiar with the book on which it’s based – or those interested in and aware of the premise beforehand. Review

Digesting the significance turns out to be mostly inscrutable and intermittently frustrating, regardless of minuscule little clues; the path is also overlong and perpetually bordering on an ambiguity surrounding reality and fantasy. Review

Most disappointing, however, is the humor. There’s a family-friendly theme of embracing one’s softer side, as well as the power and importance of friendships, but the much-needed, generally dependable laughs aren’t as frequent or as clever as they should be. Review

With its circuitous, tricky, disordered plotting, like the titular onion, peeling back layer after layer (in a reverse order of sorts) to chronicle various associations and machinations, the film struggles to maintain interest. Review

Despite the relish in hyperbolic style, there isn’t actually much originality. The story is fairly straightforward, even if buried beneath abundant details and derivations of all sorts of well-known properties. Review

The unique nature of Mars exploration makes this production worthwhile, providing details about the remarkable discoveries, while also showing the exceptional span of time. Review

The stop-motion animation is sharply done; movements and environmental effects are spectacular. Character designs are also engaging, though they’re not of the humorously weird sorts seen in The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, or Rango. Review