08 May 2020

A Low Bar


It's not just you and me. The folks at the Onion AV Club (no relation) are on a run of mediocre movies, giving a B-minus or less to 13 of the last 14 movies they've reviewed. Here's the sorry list:

  • Someone thought it would be a good idea to have Beanie Feldstein ("Booksmart") do a British accent in "How to Build a Girl" - C+
  • A musical remake of the '80s cheese "Valley Girl" (!) - C+
  • A horror flick creatively titled "Z" - B-minus
  • The documentary about Biosphere 2, "Spaceship Earth" - C+
  • A "surreal romantic fantasy" (whatever that is) "On a Magical Night" - B-minus
  • A bland attempt at mixing Tarantino and the Coen brothers, "Arkansas" - B-minus
  • Another teen horror film, "The Wretched" - You guessed it, B-minus
  • An oddball love story between a man and his suede jacket, "Deerskin," manages a solid B (phew!)
  • The Netflix crime drama "All Day and a Night" - C
  • A horror film with a bunch of S&M sex, "Liberte" - C+
  • A queer-teen take on Cyrano de Bergerac, "The Half of It" - B-minus
  • The opioid crisis hits the rodeo scene (!) in "Bull" - C+
  • These grumps don't like Spike Jonze's attempt to tell the "Beastie Boys Story" - C+
  • How about another random teen drama? "To the Stars" earns a C
It'll pick up. Right?
  

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