Ursine O' the TImes: "Paddington in Peru," reviewed.
Chris Klimek
A bear in his natural habitat. (Sony)
My Washington Post review of the jungle-action three-quel Paddington in Peru is here.
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A bear in his natural habitat. (Sony)
My Washington Post review of the jungle-action three-quel Paddington in Peru is here.
Squirrels and criminals beware. (Dreamworks)
Look, I didn’t hallucinate the ALIENS and Die Hard quotes in Dog Man; they were really there. The only thing that came out of my draft of my Washington Post review was where I pointed out that the bloodless canine-human head-trade in this PG-rated movie reminded me of the cranial swap in the original 1958 version of The Fly.
Julia Garner, Christopher Abbot, and Matilda Firth have a wolf problem. (Blumhouse)
Leigh Wannell’s 2020 Invisible Man was so strong that I had high hopes for his next update of a Universal Monsters classic. But his new Wolf Man is oddly toothless.
Maui and Moana return in Moana 2, a film as inspired as its title. (Disney)
The Disney musical sequel Moana 2 is, like David Lynch’s surreal adult masterpiece Mulholland Drive before it, a repurposing of material originally intended for the small screen. My Washington Post review is here.
Robin Wright and Tom Hanks get decades shaved off by an A.I. tool called Metaphysic Live in Here. (Sony)
On Here, the reunion of Forrest Gump principals, for the Paper of Record.
Lots here about Bob Zemeckis’s obsession with still-janky digital de-aging tech. Spike Lee’s 2020 war-vet drama Da Five Bloods achieved more stirring results by making no attempt to hide its 60-something-year-old cast members’ ages in the flashback scenes set during their combat tours in Vietnam half a century prior.
I’m rooting for Zemeckis. Flight is great. I liked Allied, his 2016 WWII espionage thriller that no one saw, too.
Drive-By Truckers: Tom Burke and Anya Taylor-Joy in Furiosa. (Warner Bros. / Jasin Boland)
Picaresque in form and Biblical in its savagery, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is the first entry in the five-film Max-iad that unfolds over years instead of days. A revenge flick about the futility of revenge, it sticks the landing, and then binds itself too tightly to that movie we all loved 9 (!) years ago in its closing moments. But it’s still a marvel.
My full Washington City Paper review is here.
Kirstin Dunst as photojournalist Lee Smith. (Murray Close/A24)
Wherein Ex Machina auteur Alex Garland’s immaculate craft bumps up against his dodgy judgment. This is a yelling-fire-in-a-crowded theater movie. Leave the destruction of the White House to clowns like Roland Emmerich, FFS. My Washington City Paper review is here.
Timothée Chalamet and Denis Villeneuve on location on Arrakis. (Niko Tavernise)
I feel better about my headline than I do about “the sandworm has turned.” Reviewed for WCP.