3 Stars – Page 5 – Ebert Did It Better: Gasbag Reviews

I appreciate these films more now in hindsight than I ever could when I was younger. With less time to waste, this trilogy finally feels like less a waste of my precious hours.

Criterion: Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (***): Feels like number 20

Jul 31, 2020

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in 3 Stars, Action, CPE, Criterion, Foreign Films I Don’t Hate, Movie Reviews, Toshiro Mifune

It’s not a disappointing film. It’s just not memorable either.

Criterion: The Sword of Doom (***) doesn’t land flush

Jul 24, 2020

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in 3 Stars, Action, CPE, Criterion, Foreign Films I Don’t Hate, Movie Reviews, Toshiro Mifune

A weak third act tears down the momentum of what could be a classic film.

Another Look: Donnie Brasco (***) is coasting on Goodfellas’ press

Jul 5, 2020

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coolpapae

in 3 Stars, Movie Reviews

The events don’t pan out to much more than what has been portrayed in other, better films. It’s not a bad onboarding spot. Just don’t settle here and think you’ve seen a great mob film.

Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn (***) – I get it, I just don’t get it

Jul 4, 2020

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in 3 Stars, CPE, Horror, Movie Reviews

…it’s more of a pitstop on the road to some place better.

You Should Have Left (***) doesn’t stay long enough

Jun 19, 2020

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in 3 Stars, CPE, Horror, Movie Reviews

Written and Directed by David Koepp based on the novel by Daniel KehlmannStarring Kevin Bacon, Amanda Seyfried, Avery Essex, Geoff Bell, Lowri-Ann Richards You Should Have Left is a good story that could leave one wondering about the basis of one’s reality. Bacon is Theo Conroy, a widowed writer who takes his second wife and…

Underwater (***) holds enough air

May 29, 2020

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coolpapae

in 3 Stars, Action, CPE, Movie Reviews, Sci-Fi

If you expect this to be a version of 10 Little Indians, you’d be right. It is handled about as well as one can imagine. It didn’t feel like a waste of time, and it made us curious enough to look up Cthulhu.