Tag: amy adams
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Review: Disenchanted
By Christian DiMartino Remember Enchanted, the 2007 smash with Amy Adams as a cartoon princess brought into the real world? I sure do. I watched it again last year, and by golly, that thing holds up. The glue holding it together was clearly Adams, and that film was my introduction to her. Obviously I wasn’t…
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Every Tim Burton Movie, Ranked
By Christian DiMartino Tim Burton turned 64 on August 25, and with that and the upcoming release of his Netflix series, The Addams Family spinoff Wednesday, I thought it would be a good enough excuse to talk about his body of work. Of which, I am honestly a big fan of. Many think that Burton…
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Review: Dear Evan Hansen
Dear Evan Hansen is a film musical that makes the mistake of being a musical. Here is a film in which the material and the story are compelling on its own. So whenever a character suddenly bursts into song, it feels more like a well-intentioned distraction. Actions speak louder than words. In this case, the…
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Review: Zack Snyder’s Justice League
By Christian DiMartino Well, I was wrong. In the case of Zack Snyder’s Justice League, I was wrong on two counts. The first being, for the years after the release of Justice League, fans cried out for the quote-on-quote “Snyder Cut.” The background surrounding this cut, I shall try to dive into in a minute.…
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Review: Hillbilly Elegy
By Christian DiMartino Ron Howard’s latest film Hillbilly Elegy is perhaps his most critically annihilated since The Da Vinci Code. Here is a man who has had great success as a filmmaker, from Apollo 13 to A Beautiful Mind to Frost/Nixon, but also isn’t impervious to critical blunders. What’s particularly strange about Hillbilly Elegy though…
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Review: Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice
By Christian DiMartino I’m a little scared. Reviewing a movie like Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice is dangerous business, because a film this big demands good reviews. Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but… I didn’t like it. Not telling you you won’t (the crowd I was with seemed to enjoy themselves),…
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Great Movies: The Master
By Christian DiMartino Every so often, a film comes around that divides people to the point where people just don’t quite know what to make of it (see: 2001: A Space Odyssey, and… okay, I know there is more than that). Paul Thomas Anderson has usually been known to make films that divide people. His masterpiece, Magnolia,…
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