Its the end of another Oscars season.
Lets celebrate (and side-eye) the movies that made the cut.
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Unfortunately,Free Guymakes that very hard to do!
Sometimes directors make sequels just because, and thats fine!
John Amos is the MVP, however.
But ultimately, and frustratingly, the film keeps coming up short of genuine insight.
A film with that premise should probably be more impactful than this one ends up being.
Its so rare these days that a worst-case scenario doesnt come to pass, so lets celebrate this one.
But at 16 minutes, it does wear out its welcome a bit.
Too easy!, even though theyll have no memory ofRaya and the Last Dragonat all.
Its too bad the first 90 minutes of this movies 150-minute run time are such an interminable snooze.
Its the lone family-friendly film of the bunch, and its widely available to stream on Netflix.
I had a great time.
Its an interesting approach to a love story that tries, but ultimately fails to provoke deeper feelings.
?Time to take out the trash.
The film is unnerving and unsparing (not for kids!)
Cary Fukunaga stages exhilarating action set pieces.
Ana de Armas, Jeffrey Wright, and Billy Magnussen each offer their own little MVP performances.
Lashana Lynch delivers as 00-someone.
Rami Malek is giving exactly what he gives best: scaly toad man.
(2016sJackiemanaged Costume and Score nominations to go with Natalie Portman in Best Actress, but nothing more.)
And thats fair.Spenceris a perplexing movie!
But how much of a fault is it, really, for a movie to be this sweet?
(Also, waterbeds.)
Luckily, Kidman does, in hersecond-best performance of the year.
Dinklage is no great singer, but he acts his way through the songs with disarming skill.
and Lo talking about last weekends trip to Cabo.
(But Im also notnotsaying that.)
Olivia Colman as the Alexa-gone-evil of this particular robo-pocalypse is probably the voice performance of the year.
Its also maybe the years strongest ensemble cast.
And she once played a woman who got fingered by Rachel Weisz.
Anyway, yeah, a vacation sounds great.
5.Tick, Tick … BOOM!
Netflix, of course, was able to beat the system by keeping this one away from theaters entirely.
Somehow, it all works.
Which is a good thing.
Steven Spielberg remains Hollywoods only unquestionable Oscar magnet whose films still get routinely underrewarded by the Academy.
This pandemic has taken so much.
So, so much.
Whether or not it wins the nights top trophy, it deserves at least a paper flower.
