The scattered successes by Tyler Perry & Co. feel haphazard and the barrage of attempts at humor and the high percentage of failure is borderline exhausting.
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The scattered successes by Tyler Perry & Co. feel haphazard and the barrage of attempts at humor and the high percentage of failure is borderline exhausting.
Stephen Merchant’s fact-based wrestling comedy is thoroughly entertaining and disarmingly mature.
Rebel Wilson proves generally ready for leading lady status in this skewering of rom-com conventions.
The sequel ably changes its genre gears with only slightly diminished returns.
The animated sequel is as fun and funny as its predecessor, though the increased reliance on live-action exposition is troubling.
Taraji P. Henson stars in this likable but mild comedy with a sentimental streak.
Joe Cornish’s family-friendly King Arthur movie makes a star out of Angus Imrie as “Young” Merlin.
A committed Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly practically disappear in this thoroughly pleasant biopic of Laurel and Hardy.
The charming English-language remake of The Intouchables merits more respect than it’s bound to receive.
Not nearly as bad as advertised, the reunion of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly nonetheless can’t quite be called “good.”
Bruce and Edwin loop in honorary Asheville Movie Guy, Christopher Oakley, for a roundtable discussion of Adam McKay’s Dick Cheney biopic.
True to form, the year’s most joyful film is practically perfect in every way.
If you’re going to make a costume drama in 2018, you might as well make it weird.
Ike Barinholtz takes a plausible, Purge-like premise of governmental overreach and filters it through unappealing, ultimately toothless means.
Tom Hardy shows off an appealing, awkward comic side in this charmingly weird comic book flick.
The year of films about real-life art heists rolls on with this seriocomic look at the 1985 looting of Mexico City’s National Anthropology Museum.
Tiffany Haddish, Kevin Hart and an appealing supporting cast have contagious fun in this predictable comedy.
Eli Roth pivots from gory to Gorey (of the Edward variety) and fares nearly as poorly.