It’s Timothee Chalamet Week on Breakfast All Day. He’s at the center of two giant movies with ridiculously packed casts of superstars and character actors alike. First, Alonso and I review Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” — or at least, part one of “Dune” — which we watched under extremely different conditions....
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Breakfast All Day Marvel Mondays: Thor: The Dark World
We’ve made it to the eighth film in our Marvel Mondays series, “Thor: The Dark World” (2013), which is definitely a step down from the fun we had last week talking about “Iron Man 3.” Halfway through our viewing, I turned to Nicolas and wondered: “Have I seen this movie...
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We’re hammering our way through this Marvel Mondays thing on Breakfast All Day. This week, Nicolas and I discuss the original “Thor” (2011), one of the movies that inspired this podcast series in the first place. Nic realized he’d never seen it, and I recall seeing it but not liking...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
The sequel to the 2008 schmaltzy smash “Mamma Mia!” features even more characters and more subplots and more romantic entanglements. But it’s also less entertaining, the stakes are lower, and despite its frantic energy, it goes absolutely nowhere. It has its moments, though, so if you want an empty summer...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Borg vs. McEnroe
The performances are strong, particularly from Shia LaBeouf as John McEnroe — with the undeniable juiciness of watching one notoriously volatile person playing another. But this telling of the titanic showdown between McEnroe and Bjorn Borg at the 1980 Wimbledon championships is frustratingly superficial, and it does a lot of...
Read moreAvengers: Age of Ultron
Walt Disney Pictures Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi action, violence and destruction, and for some suggestive comments. Running time: 141 minutes. Two stars out of four. Much of what made Joss Whedon’s original “Avengers” such a joy in 2012 was his ability to juggle and make it look...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — The Railway Man
Austere and old-fashioned almost to a fault, “The Railway Man” offers tastefully safe treatment of a horrific subject: the torture of a British Army officer at a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II. Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman give solid performances in this true story. My RogerEbert.com...
Read moreWhat the Flick?! — Nymphomaniac: Volume II
It’s never as good as the first time. Alonso and I review the second half of Lars von Trier’s four-hour “Nymphomaniac,” which is far more dark and grim and judgmental than “Volume I.” The cynical, misanthropic von Trier is back....
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Magnolia Pictures Unrated. 118 minutes. Three stars out of four. Lars von Trier is funny. Who knew? That’s certainly the most startling revelation to come from “Nymphomaniac: Volume I” — much more so than any of the much-ballyhooed sex itself, which is pervasive and graphic and presented so plainly as...
Read moreWhat the Flick?! — Nymphomaniac: Vol. 1
That wacky Lars Von Trier. Who knew he was funny? Much has been made about the graphic nature of this film, in which Charlotte Gainsbourg plays a sex addict recounting her exploits for Stellan Skarsgard. But not only is it not a titillating experience, it’s also lighter and more playful...
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