Category Archives: Entropy

‘Queen and Slim’ a haunting story of black love, identity

Posted on December 8, 2019 by reelentropy

9/10 Queen and Slim is highly topical, but so powerful that it rises above its tight ties to its moment in time. In Queen and Slim, a pair of relative strangers driving home from a Tinder date (Jodie Turner-Smith and … Continue reading →

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‘Knives Out’ is a fucking blast

Posted on December 8, 2019 by reelentropy

9/10 I had the chance to see Knives Out for free and couldn’t wait for the chance to pay to see it again. It is so much fun. It’s a kind of fun I’d almost given up on having in … Continue reading →

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‘Honey Boy’ enumerates, hopefully concludes LaBeouf’s long troubles

Posted on December 7, 2019 by reelentropy

Honey Boy is a decent movie as a viewer, but it’s not for viewers. It’s for Shia LaBeouf. Honey Boy is LaBeouf’s autobiographical retelling of his childhood stardom and abuse at the hands of his father, Jeffrey, and his troubled … Continue reading →

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‘21 Bridges’ deftly navigates tightrope of action, social pitfalls

Posted on December 7, 2019 by reelentropy

8/10 Is 21 Bridges exploitative? Is it cop-friendly propaganda? It’s a damn good action movie, is what it is. In 21 Bridges, two hired assassins, Michael Trujillo and Ray Jackson (Stephan James and Taylor Kitsch), kill eight NYPD officers in … Continue reading →

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‘Frozen II’ expands, doesn’t improve franchise

Posted on December 6, 2019 by reelentropy

3/10 I never made time for Frozen in November 2013. It’d come a bit out of nowhere, and I sort of pretended it hadn’t had the success that it had. Glancing over it on Disney+ before its long-awaited sequel six … Continue reading →

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