Touching and wise, but a lot of things were idealized: cancer, blindness, and boyfriends, notably.
Month: October 2014
The Croods (2013) 70%
Likeable family fare.
The Color of Money (1986) 80%
Exceptional film about psychology and pool.
Child Of God (2014) 50%
Something got lost between the page and the screen, but it wasn’t anything physical. I think most reviewers simply have trouble with an immoral protagonist.
47 Ronin (2013) 40%
Without humor.
Red State (2011) 50%
Created with a naive understanding of sex, religion, and politics.
Brick Mansions (2014) 50%
Old-fashioned Cinemax Saturday-night fare. The parkour is neat, while the rest is quite silly.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) 50%
Slow, without any sense of importance.
Coherence (2014) 70%
A good, cheap idea for the most part well executed. The outdoor shaky-cam is annoying, and the cast is not likeable enough to care what happens to them, but otherwise it’s well done.
Hercules Reborn (2014) 30%
A cheap knockoff of something. Not the worst Asylum effort ever, but the acting and writing are too poor for this to be so heavyhearted.