The Goods: Film Reviews
There’s an alternate universe where a version of Cars 3 not too different from its current form is an “Exceptionally Good” movie, an elegaic conclusion to a trilogy that used racing and talking cars to explore the ways we define our personal parameters of success in an increasingly fast-paced and polarized world.
There’s one thing I unabashedly enjoy about Pixar’s worst film to date: The almost pornographic way it raises uncomfortable questions about the cosmology of the Cars world.
It’s hard to think of a movie with more wasted potential: Disney at its peak Renaissance powers, following a string of more-or-less masterpieces, releasing a catastrophic misfire.
I am smitten with Luca even though it’s a bit rough around the edges and takes some time to get going.
They used to occasionally show us these kinds of documentaries in high school and college classes (probably when the teacher had a hangover).
The massive popularity of its warmer sequel and the meme-ification of some of its most famous lines had me ill-prepared for just how much of a techno-nightmare this film is.
The big weakness of Toy Story That Time Forgot is also the thing that makes me resent it less than some other Toy Story shorts: It centers around a Toy Story character for whom I have no strong affection, Trixie voiced by Kristen Schaal.
If you were to ask me what the ideal format for a post-Toy Story 3 short would look like, it would come pretty close to Toy Story of Terror!
The best thing you can say about Lamp Life is that it has some of the world-class photorealism CGI deployed in Toy Story 4.
The Hating Game works when it’s just Lucy Hale and Austin Stowell verbally sparring with each other.