Tag Archives: Disney

Magical, musical ‘Encanto’ delights

Posted on December 16, 2021 by reelentropy

8/10 In Encanto, off-brand Pixar does Colombian X-Men. This crazed Mad Lib is a real movie, and it’s pretty good. Colombia- As Alma Madrigal (María Cecilia Botero, with Olga Merediz stepping in for singing parts) flees an unspecified conflict in … Continue reading →

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‘Venom 2’ is obviously incomplete and breathtakingly bad

Posted on October 1, 2021 by reelentropy

1/10 Venom was fun enough to be enjoyable though its flaws. That kind of good will doesn’t last. San Francisco- Freelance reporter Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy, who also has a story credit) works with the FBI to find the lost … Continue reading →

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Crouching Marvel, hidden action

Posted on September 10, 2021 by reelentropy

3/10 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings has a lot of good components, but they never really come together, and the put-together product is instead so forgettable you can sometimes forget you’re in the process of watching it. … Continue reading →

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‘Free Guy’ is a very strange movie

Posted on September 9, 2021 by reelentropy

2/10 Movies based on personal senses of humor are always hit-or-miss, and Free Guy is a huge, wild miss. In the open-world video game Free City, Guy (Ryan Reynolds, who also produces), a non-player character who works as a teller … Continue reading →

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‘Jungle Cruise’ is a boring, homosexist dumpster fire

Posted on August 13, 2021 by reelentropy

1/10 Jungle Cruise is a limp imitation of past Disney success that nobody seemed to know what to do with. 1917, as diseases that were responsible for a third of all military casualties in the Great War ravage the trenches- … Continue reading →

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