Captain Marvel (2019)
[6] It's another Marvel movie! And it's on the high-end of average, like most of their releases. This one is all about a new character, a pilot named Carol Danvers, who becomes the title hero. She doesn't know who she is or…
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
[7] Jennifer Jones and William Holden star as a widowed Eurasian doctor and a married American news correspondent who fall in love despite cultural differences and wartime separations during China's communist revolution. Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing is one of the quintessential…
S.O.B. (1981)
[6] Julie Andrews, William Holden, Richard Mulligan, Robert Preston, and Robert Webber star in Blake Edwards' (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Thoroughly Modern Millie) ensemble comedy about a film producer who goes suicidal after his latest G-rated family film turns out to be a…
The Fugitive Kind (1960)
[7] Marlon Brando stars in Sydney Lumet's adaptation of Tennessee Williams Orpheus Descending. (Williams co-wrote the screenplay with Meade Roberts.) Brando plays a young man trying to shed his criminal background and start a new life in a new town. But the…
Running with Scissors (2006)
[6] Writer/director Ryan Murphy (Nip/Tuck, Glee) brings Augusten Burroughs' memoir to the big screen. Joseph Cross plays young Burroughs, a thirteen-year-old whose emotionally unstable mother hands him off to her therapist. Running with Scissors is primarily about Burroughs trying to fit in…
Spring Break (1983)
[5] Two kinda dorky college boys end up sharing a room with two more savvy guys during spring break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The guys become friends in their pursuit of beer and women, all while one boy's politician step-father hunts him…
Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)
[4] A group of Asian-American high schoolers get bored of being diligent students and begin dabbling in criminal activity. Before long, they're in over their heads and regretting everything. You don't get to know any of the characters very well, except that…
Dark Shadows (2012)
[5] Tim Burton's big-screen adaptation of Dan Curtis' cult TV show Dark Shadows wants to be a comedy about a vampire transplanted from centuries past into the 1970s. That movie - one that focused on the vampire's relationships with his surviving relatives,…
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
[6] Writer/director Dean DeBlois wraps up the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy with a mostly satisfying finale. In this third film, young Viking Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) and his comrades discover a second, rare Night Fury dragon -- and it's a female.…
Chastity (1969)
[4] Cher gives her first dramatic performance in Chastity, produced by then-husband and singing partner Sonny Bono. You could call the film experimental, an American hippie spin on the French New Wave of filmmaking. Or you could call it a largely plotless…