Category: Capsule

Significantly diminished returns in a second entry, although still with some good creepy moments and bizarre ideas, tying the demon with a sort of pubescent sexuality. The lore makes no sense though.

Edit: I am apparently a dingus because once you start to parse it, there’s lot of gay subtext that I didn’t pick up on

Creepy, suspenseful, well-made slasher with a great premise (don’t fall asleep!) a really thrilling climax and a few resonant images (the bathtub!)

I can never decide if this one is underrated or properly rated. It feels like two movies grafted into one — a comedy about a mom and a daughter coming to understand each other via transformation hijinks, and a more mythic tale of a young girl discovering the dark truths of the world via creepy bear. Both are solid premises and decently executed… but peculiar together.

A rare movie I actively hate. Misogynistic and pointless, kind of filthy but never fun, terribly directed. I was ready to at least enjoy the romcom bits of the best friends falling for each other… but even the love triangle is botched. Avoid.

I feel like I have an infinite appetite for ’80s romantic comedies starring John Cusack. I want to travel the multiverse collecting all of the John Cusack 80s romcoms I can.

This one is pretty solid, with good control of its tone and characters, occasionally funny, and appealing chemistry between Cusack and Daphne Zuniga. And it’s also a road trip movie, because why the hell not. Good fun.

Yikes. For starters, you have a really rough, entirely predictable teen romantic comedy that wants to be fun like Animal House, but is just a chaotic mess. The romance portions are maybe passable, but if so, only barely. (I do like Lori Laughlin here.)

Where it nosedives into catastrophe is the other half of the film, where an entirely misguided romantic farce involving the teens’ parents is thrown into the mix. It’s baffling, but not in a fun way. Just a total misfire.