It feels sort of mean trashing “Book of Love,” a bilingual romantic comedy that offers a clever premise but never truly delivers on it in satisfying fashion. Sam Claflin plays an author whose latest novel, “The Sensible Heart,” is a major dud. But the book becomes a huge hit in...
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Breakfast All Day Podcast 9/25/20
We loved the strange, sweet and singular “Kajillionaire,” one of several movies we review this week on Breakfast All Day. Besides Miranda July’s latest, Matt, Alonso and I discuss the Netflix adventure “Enola Holmes,” with its radiant lead performance from Millie Bobby Brown, and “Misbehaviour,” based on the true story...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Enola Holmes
Millie Bobby Brown is radiant and charismatic in “Enola Holmes,” in which she stars as the younger sister of the famous detective, Sherlock. All the poise and presence we saw in her over the past three seasons of “Stranger Things” are there, only now she gets to be a kid...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 4/17/20
It’s sort of a blah week movie-wise and otherwise, but we’re happy to see each other and you on the latest Breakfast All Day. Alonso, Matt and I begin as always with this week’s Coronavirus news (including the cancellation of Comic-Con and Taylor Swift’s 2020 concert tour) before moving on...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Charlie’s Angels
“Charlie’s Angels” is the reboot you never knew you needed in your life. As writer, director, producer and co-star, Elizabeth Banks has achieved a tricky (if somewhat inconsistent) balance between reveling in the playful, escapist fun of the original 1970s TV detective series and asserting a wholly necessary and modern...
Read moreWine the Flick?! — Adrift
Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin star as beautiful, young people in love — and in danger — in “Adrift.” Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur’s drama is based on the true story of survival aboard a storm-tossed yacht in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. I knew this would be a prime...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2
It’s the final film in the “Hunger Games” saga — no, really it is this time! With the exception of a couple of truly dazzling action set pieces, “Mockingjay – Part 2” provides more of what we saw in “Mockingjay — Part 1”: a lot of wheel-spinning and repetitive imagery....
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Love, Rosie
Lily Collins and Sam Claflin are attractive and appealing as lifelong best friends who are clearly meant to be together, but the many contrived obstacles that keep them apart are more irritating than romantic. The lighting is pretty, though. My RogerEbert.com review. Read the review here...
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