Category Archives: Entropy

Nerves, belly laughs from brilliant debut ‘Sorry to Bother You’

Posted on July 31, 2018 by reelentropy

9/10 Sorry to Bother You is a special, special film. Cassius “Cash is” Green (Lakeith Stanfield) is an impoverished Oakland resident living out of his uncle’s garage. He starts the film by getting a call center job, which gets him … Continue reading →

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‘Skyscraper’ good at times, needed a plotscraper

Posted on July 31, 2018 by reelentropy

4/10 Skyscraper’s got everything. It’s got The Rock, it’s got a 1.1 kilometer tall building, it’s got everything. The most ironic thing it has, though, is junk. There’s too much junk in this movie. Skyscraper follows Will Sawyer (Dwayne Johnson), … Continue reading →

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Second time is more charming, but still lacks that special something

Posted on July 31, 2018 by reelentropy

8/10 Ant-Man and the Wasp is wonderful. Unfortunately, because I’m pathologically incapable of enjoying Marvel movies, it still leaves me wanting. The film joins The Avengers’ size-shifting wonder Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) at the end of his long house arrest … Continue reading →

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‘First Purge’ is the first great purge movie

Posted on July 30, 2018 by reelentropy

9/10 The Purge movies continue to baffle me with cultural staying power that outsizes their box office numbers. What started as a cut-rate home invasion movie with an elaborate premise has captured the American imagination, fitting like a glove onto … Continue reading →

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‘Superfly’ is sort of fly at times, but mostly forgettable

Posted on July 17, 2018 by reelentropy

3/10 I was really looking forward to Superfly, and my excitement was vindicated from the first shot to, I don’t know, maybe the end of the second scene. Those two are slathered in style that, for some reason, the rest … Continue reading →

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