The Goods: Film Reviews
A League of Their Own is pretty close to the best possible version of itself: It is well-cast and well-directed. The lines are impeccably delivered. The tone is a just-right blend of cynical, smart, and sweet. It’s a big meal of comfort food even if it never quite ascends into greatness.
There’s a 20-minute period towards the middle of the film where The Money Pit lives up to its slapstick potential, and it’s the hardest I’ve laughed in eons.
Buried early in Tom Hanks’s filmography is a fascinating little drama about the bruised souls of stand-up comedians, arriving a full twenty years before Judd Apatow would probe the exact same topic in his opus Funny People.
It’s tough to overstate how good Tom Hanks is in this movie, and also how important it was in his career arc.
Sometimes it’s a relief to watch a movie that’s exactly what it says on the tin.
Classic Dragnet is not something I’ve ever spent any time with.
Nothing in Common is a head-spinningly uneven film. It pairs some legitimately great performances and compelling ideas with a total dud of a script. What a waste.
Back before Hollywood had properly figured out the Tom Hanks everyman persona, Volunteers provided a goofy little lark where Hanks plays a totally different type of protagonist.
Of all the moral panics from the last half century, Dungeons and Dragons is one of the most inexplicable to me.
It’s actually kind of remarkable how little works in The Man with One Red Shoe.