Working through some very mixed feeling with my review of “Wonder Woman 1984.” Gal Gadot is enormously charismatic and perfectly cast once again as the DC Comic superhero, and she retains her authentic connection with the audience. And Kristen Wiig gets to flex some intriguing muscles as the film’s villain....
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Breakfast All Day Podcast 12/18/20
We’ve all finally seen “Tenet,” and we can’t make sense of it coming or going on this week’s Breakfast All Day. Alonso, Birthday Boy Matt and I had more fun talking about Christopher Nolan’s time-travel thriller than we did watching it. We also review “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” featuring Chadwick...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Fatale
“Fatale,” a modern-day take on the “Fatal Attraction” premise, never fulfills its promise as a lurid, guilty pleasure. Despite its slick aesthetics, with gorgeous stars in luxurious clothes driving flashy cars and enjoying multimillion-dollar views from the beachfront to the hilltop, “Fatale” is weirdly dull. But its most grievous sin...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 12/11/20
It’s Meryl Streep Week here at Breakfast All Day as Alonso, Matt and I review the splashy musical “The Prom” and Steven Soderbergh’s latest inspired experiment, “Let Them All Talk.” One of these movies is definitely better than the other! We also discuss the super-duper Irish rom-com “Wild Mountain Thyme,”...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Wild Mountain Thyme
“Wild Mountain Thyme” offers such a staggering array of Irish cliches, you half expect to see a leprechaun bounding across the lush, verdant countryside, hiding from those kids who are “after me Lucky Charms.” This movie is just relentlessly whimsical, and the accents are distractingly terrible. Writer-director John Patrick Shanley’s...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 12/4/20
The holidays are approaching and we’ve got plenty of cheer for you — and news, and reviews — on this week’s Breakfast All Day. Alonso, Matt and I discuss several new releases: the excellent “Nomadland”; “Love, Weddings & Other Disasters” (which convinced us we definitely need to do a worst-of...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
For the first time ever, I wasn’t going to do a list of the year’s worst films. 2020 has been painful enough. Why pile on? But then I saw “Love, Weddings & Other Disasters,” and felt inspired anew. Written and directed by Adam Sandler pal Dennis Dugan, it’s a slapdash...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 11/27/20
We’re stuffed full of Thanksgiving dinner and holiday movies on the latest Breakfast All Day. Matt, Alonso and I have a full plate of reviews for you: “Hillbilly Elegy,” “Happiest Season,” “Superintelligence,” “Zappa” and the second film in Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” anthology, “Lovers Rock.” In news, we talk about...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Superintelligence
Melissa McCarthy is woefully miscast as the most average person on the planet — who becomes the test subject for an A.I. — in the dreadfully flat “Superintelligence.” The thing that makes McCarthy a fascinating comic figure is her fearlessness; being milquetoast doesn’t play to her strengths. Trouble is, her...
Read moreBreakfast All Day Podcast 11/20/20
It’s never too early to talk about Christmas movies when the world’s expert on the subject, Alonso Duralde, is your podcast co-host. So here we are with a review of “The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special,” even before we’ve carved our Thanksgiving turkey, on Breakfast All Day. Alonso, Matt and...
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