A young woman named Bailey Swan reminisces about a motorcycle trip she took after dropping out of college. In this impressionistic portrait of scattered memories from a 8,500 mile journey across the United States, director Madeline Leshner introduces us to an avid liver of life, who at sixteen got her first motorcycle, and never stopped riding.
Emma Stone (Estella and Cruella) and Emma Thompson (the Baroness) did not come to play around in Cruella. They embodied the perfect balance of sinister and sincere. Estella went through a great hero's journey, and what a journey it was!
The fun tricks used in the production design and lighting read extremely well on-screen but hardly fulfill their purpose of trying to inject glamour into a lack-luster story with nothing to say.
Laggies is a fantastic movie, filled with down-to-earth characters, transcendent themes, and witty comedy
Emily Henry’s adaptation reaches romance movie standards, but not romance reader standards.
Armed with a $400M budget and Tom Cruise’s death-defying stunts, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning delivers pulse-pounding action even as its plot falters. From underwater silence to high-altitude madness, it's pure adrenaline powered by old-school movie magic — but is this really Ethan Hunt’s final mission?
Outer Banks (2020-) knows its audience: young adults in a country that can’t stop romanticizing good ole’ treasure hunts. Add a little of Riverdale’s (2017-) sex appeal, and no one can look away. Forty years after The Goonies (1985) America’s consciousness hasn’t strayed from the same tropes: treasure hunts, a vulnerable white male lead, and the whitewashing of a racially segregated setting.
