It’s December, so we’re officially in Christmas movie season on Breakfast All Day. But we have very different opinions of “Violent Night,” an action flick starring David Harbour as a butt-kicking Santa Claus. We are in agreement, though, about “The Inspection,” a sensitive and compelling indie drama about a queer,...
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RogerEbert.com — The Menu
“The Menu” is deliciously mean and endlessly stylish in its satirization of extreme wealth, with Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Fiennes and Nicholas Hoult enjoying some biting, snappy dialogue. But it may leave you feeling a little hungry afterward. My review, at RogerEbert.com. Read the review here...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 11/24/21
It’s Thanksgiving week so of course we have a veritable smorgasbord of delights here on Breakfast All Day. Alonso and I start off with one of our absolute favorite movies of the year — the absolute best, I say — in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Licorice Pizza.” We also review Ridley...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Playing With Fire
My kid says this is the worst movie he’s ever seen. When you’ve lost the 10-year-old boy audience in a movie full of poop jokes, you’re doing something wrong. John Cena stars as an uptight firefighter whose orderly world gets turned upside down with the arrival of a trio of...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 5/17/19
Just like Keanu Reeves, we’re unstoppable here at the Breakfast All Day Podcast. Matt, Alonso and I review the completely gnarly action thriller “John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum” (which I say is the best one yet); the swoony YA romance “The Sun Is Also a Star”; “The Souvenir,” an...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Sisters
The zippy, zingy chemistry of longtime collaborators and best friends Tina Fey and Amy Poehler keeps “Sisters” consistently entertaining, even when it grows a tad repetitive and overlong. My RogerEbert.com review. Read the review here...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — American Ultra
The tricky combination of sweet, slacker romance and slick, super-violent action flick proves especially jarring in “American Ultra.” Blending such disparate genres requires a more deft touch than the one that’s on display here. My RogerEbert.com review. Read the review here...
Read moreRide Along
Universal Pictures Rated PG-13 for sequences of violence, sexual content and brief strong language. Running time: 100 minutes. One star out of four. “Ride Along” has the dubious distinction of being simultaneously shoddy and straining, lazy and desperate. It’s a comedy that’s never funny with action that’s never thrilling. Director...
Read moreWhat the Flick?! — Ride Along
Matt and I didn’t even have to use our AKs to review the Ice Cube-Kevin Hart mismatched-buddy cop comedy. But we did blast a few holes in it nonetheless....
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