This movie of a gay black man’s journey from childhood to adulthood has gained rave reviews, and a Golden Globe for best drama, and I approached Moonlight wondering if the the acclaim was for its storytelling, or for it focussing…
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Moonlight — very worthy, very important, rather dull
Monster Trucks: a monstrous pile of rubbish
The Edge Of Seventeen: an angsty mess saved by Woody Harrelson
Passengers — a spoiler-ish look at a profoundly flawed film
There are maybe half a dozen films to be found inside Passengers, the new rom-space-com starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt. The problem with Passengers is that none of them are the film that its trailer tries to sell. Warning:…