#REVIEW: “MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL”
Review by Mr. Will Wong
Fans of 2014's Maleficent go deeper into the titular character's mind in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and see the stakes upped in this gorgeous-looking battle for dominance led by two queens.
Taking place five years following the events of Maleficent, we see Princess Aurora (Elle Fanning) set to wed Prince Phillip (Harris Dickinson). The union uniting two kingdoms could at long last see peace and harmony between humans and the mythical creatures of the Moors. Phillip's ...
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#REVIEW: “THE KING”
Review by George Kozera for Mr. Will Wong
Without diminishing the talented Nick Robinson and Haley Lu Richardson, is there a more talented 23 year-old actor than Timothée Chalamet? After making strong impressions in supporting roles in movies as diverse as Interstellar, Men, Women & Children and Lady Bird, he stunned movie-goers globally with his exquisite performance in Call Me by Your Name. Many feel he deserved an Oscar that year and also the following year for his searing ...
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#REVIEW: “GEMINI MAN”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Please note: This review is for the 4K 24 FPS 2D version of the Film.
Henry Brogan (Will Smith) is an aging hitman who wants out of the game. Just as he decides to retire, Henry finds out that his handler lied about who his last target was. Now on the run with junior agent Danny Zakarweski (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), Henry must unravel and discover a government conspiracy while dodging a mysterious assassin – who just so happens to look like a much ...
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#REVIEW: “LUCKY DAY”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
When safe-cracker Red (Luke Bracey) gets released from prison all he wants is to spend quality time with his wife, Chloe (Nina Dobrev) and daughter Beatrice (Ella Ryan Quinn). But his familial solitude gets put into jeopardy when psychotic contract killer Luc (Crispin Glover) hunts Red down to seek vengeance for his brother’s untimely death.
Writer-Director Roger Avery holds nothing back in making this an over-the-top Action-Comedy. He hits a lot ...
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#REVIEW: “MATTHIAS & MAXIME”
Review by George Kozera for Mr. Will Wong
I make no secrets of my admiration and borderline obsession with the works of Quebec’s auteur, Xavier Dolan. As an actor, he is charismatic and hypnotic even in movies he did not direct (check out his stellar work in “Boy Erased”). As a Writer/Director, Dolan’s movies are unique, visually spellbinding and impossible to forget. There may have been one or two missteps in his career, but which Director can say, with any honesty, that they may have ...
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#REVIEW: “JOKER”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
When I first heard about Co-Writer/Director Todd Phillips developing a Joker origin film for adults, I scoffed and wrote it off as a horrendous idea. Did we really need a film chronicling the rise of Batman’s greatest villain? Had Heath Ledger not already given us the definitive cinematic portrayal of the character? How could Joaquin Phoenix even fathom the idea that he could live up to that legendary, Oscar-winning performance? Fast-forward to ...
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#REVIEW: “THE LAUNDROMAT”
Review by Justin Waldman for Mr. Will Wong
Steven Soderbergh and Scott Z. Burns team-up again to deliver an important movie about the Panama Papers, and what they exactly are for people who do not follow the news as closely as the rest of the world. It’s a cat-and-mouse story followed by an excellent Cast as well as fourth wall-breaking throughout, with a final impactful blow.
The Laundromat follows a widow, Ellen (Meryl Streep) as she tries to get to the bottom of an insurance fraud issue ...
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#REVIEW: “ABONIMABLE”
Review by George Kozera for Mr. Will Wong
My initial thought was “yet another animated movie about a Yeti?” when I entered the theatre with hundreds of the target audience in their seats alongside the adults. ABOMINABLE is the first major co-production between an American studio (DreamWorks) and China’s Pearl Studio, so I was relatively certain that the animation itself would be unique, and I was not disappointed with the spectacular visuals.
Set in modern day China, Yi (Chloe Bennet) ...
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#REVIEW: “JUDY”
Review by Mr. Will Wong
While Rupert Goold's JUDY might not be that feel-good Film of the year, it is a fascinating portrait framed around the final weeks of Hollywood icon Judy Garland's (Renée Zellweger) life. Set in 1969, we see her homeless and struggling to support her children, hence taking on a string of sold-out London shows, which pull her away from her children as she fights to retain custody of them. We see her fall in love with her much-younger fifth husband Mickey Deans (Finn ...
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#REVIEW: “AD ASTRA”
Review by George Kozera for Mr. Will Wong
The spectacular AD ASTRA opens with a close-up of the most striking blue eyes since Paul Newman’s. Brad Pitt plays Major Roy McBride, an astronaut who appears to be serene and calm under intense pressure which belie the angry voice over we hear of his inner thoughts and turmoil. In what has to be the most visually arresting ten minutes opening sequences we will probably see at the movies this year, we see Roy in space repairing a rig which is huge in ...
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