Maybe one of these day's I'll like this movie even more than I did because this is the third time I've seen this film (the first in theaters, the other two this director's cut) and I have liked it more each time. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is a film that at its core has the problem of being both a sequel to Man of Steel and trying to set up this established universe with way too many characters.…

Driving Miss Daisy is a film that's not great. Adapted from a stage play, it might be that director Bruce Beresford doesn't really translate what could be raw and emotional on stage to the screen. It also might be the fact that this is a story about race that doesn't have anything more interesting to say about either the black experience or the Jewish experience in America. Racism is bad, and I guess there's a statement that white people can…

Well that was nigh on incomprehensible.  Like the first half was already subpar by devolving into an episode’s worth of exposition for the final ten minutes…and then the second half is at least two whole season’s worth of material shoved, chopped, and slapped into an hour.  And then it ends with a big swing to try to keep people watching but also indicating that something happened behind the scenes to push out lead Ncuti Gatwa, an actor whom I wish literally…

Okay so the last act of this film is probably the messiest it could possibly be, especially since because it’s a fairy tale and Ariel’s agency is on the line, she loses it.  As a final act it does work well enough, just not as well as how solid the first two acts actually are.  Howard Ashman’s influence on the film is probably what makes it work and there’s such an obvious queer influence and reading of the film.  Ursula…