The first Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is one of my favorite movies of the 21st century
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)

The first Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is one of my favorite movies of the 21st century
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a goofy film walking a high-wire balance between a bunch of different tones and ideas.
On a superficial level, Cha Cha Real Smooth is extremely similar to Shithouse, Cooper Raiff’s debut from 2020.
Here it is — the film that sent the musical biopic to the point of no return, the ultimate distillation of the life a complex and compromised artist into a Hollywood three act structure.
There is a fine line between an “impressive” performance and a “great” one, and I think Jamie Foxx treads that line throughout the entirety of Ray.
Sometimes my critical faculties are short-circuited and I can only gush. Here goes.
Sometimes a movie just clicks in a way that is totally subjective. Especially comedies.
I’m not sure a film has ever more steadily improved in my estimation than Teen Beach Movie, the Disney Channel musical from 2013.
Max Keeble’s Big Move is 100% tween boy cheese, but it’s exactly the kind of cheese I love
Dumb and Dumber is a comedy where many of the broadest, best-known gags have lost their luster, but the the stuff on the fringes absolutely slays me.