The Goods: Film Reviews

Hokum is what I like to call a line graph movie, by which I mean you could chart my engagement with it as a literal line graph, peaks and valleys neatly labeled.

Let me get my one real gripe out of the way up front, because it’s just about the only complaint I’ve got.

It is not basketball.

The biggest movie story going right now is youth slaying a giant.

There’s a line my podcast co-host Brian likes to quote from the 30 Rock bit “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah,” where Tracy Morgan/Jordan declares that “this whole premise is sweaty.”