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Top Gun: Maverick (2022)::rating::3.5
T op Gun: Maverick shouldn't work as well as it does.  After all, the original film has long become an 80s nostalgia piece--a cinematic keepsake of a different era: Top Gun was an overblown anthem to hyper-patriotism, with flared nostrils and jittery cocaine sweats.  That film couldn't salute the flag hard enough, as spangly,…
May 28, 20220Comments
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Kill Bill, Volumes 1 & 2 (2003, 2004)::rating::5
K ill Bill forever cements Quentin Tarantino's reputation as a cinematic mad scientist, pouring disparate chemicals into a beaker and cackling manically as they pop and fizz.  The resulting concoction becomes moviedom's strangest masterpiece:  It's goofy, gory, and gleefully indulgent.  But Tarantino also achieves something that's both quietly miraculous and deceptively difficult:  Over the course of Bill's…
May 25, 20220Comments
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The Lost City (2022)::rating::3
T he trailers for The Lost City filled me with dread.  I feared an expensive, gauche knock-off of Romancing the Stone, Indiana Jones, and a half-dozen other, better movies.  And don't get it twisted--this movie still ain't gonna make anybody throw down their crutches and walk.  Still, a talented, high-dollar cast buys right into this film's refined sense of…
May 23, 20220Comments
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The Northman (2022)::rating::3.5
T he Northman puts me into a bit of a tangle.  On the plus side, director Robert Eggers creates a relentlessly visceral revenge epic, set against a sweeping historical backdrop.  The acting, the cinematography, and the set design are worthy of Oscars.  At the same time, this is a dour, wearying experience.  And taken over…
May 15, 20220Comments

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