Reviews

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...

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Breakfast All Day Podcast 11/15/22

Just a quick midweek nibble from us at Breakfast All Day as we review “The Menu,” the dark comedy starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Fiennes and Nicholas Hoult. It’s one of many skewer-the-rich satires out there these days. We also have some news headlines, including the huge box office opening for...

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Breakfast All Day Podcast 4/24/20

Only Chris Hemsworth as a hunky, black-market mercenary named Tyler Rake could pull us out of the morass in which we’ve found ourselves. His Netflix action extravaganza, “Extraction,” is one of several movies we review this week on Breakfast All Day. Alonso, Matt and I also discuss the excellent Apple+ documentary “Beastie Boys...

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What the Flick?! Podcast 11/20/18

We’re thankful that some of the best movies of the year are opening during this Thanksgiving week on the What the Flick?! Podcast. Alonso and I review the latest twisted delight from Yorgos Lanthimos, “The Favourite” — which may be my favo(u)rite film of 2018 — as well as Alfonso...

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RogerEbert.com — Kill Your Friends

“Kill Your Friends,” a dark satire of the late-’90s music industry, is amusingly slick and biting for a while. Nicholas Hoult stars as a successful and handsome but secretly homicidal A&R executive at a London record label. But comparisons to “American Psycho” are inevitable, and “Kill Your Friends” doesn’t measure...

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Mad Max: Fury Road

Warner Bros. Pictures Rated R for intense sequences of violence throughout, and for disturbing images. Running time: 120 minutes. Four stars out of four. The title of the movie is “Mad Max: Fury Road” because, in theory, its driving force is the iconic character at the center of George Miller’s...

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X-Men: Days of Future Past

20th Century Fox Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense sci-fi violence and action, some suggestive material, nudity and language. Running time: 131 minutes. Three and a half stars out of four. The “X-Men” movies are, for the most part, a giant blur for me.  I know I’ve seen them all...

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