The Film Verdict

1 week ago | thefilmverdict.com | Alonso Duralde

VERDICT: Danny Boyle and Alex Garland reteam for a sequel to their zombie smash that’s got a lot of heart – and other organs. That’s a bold choice to make when blood-puking rage-zombies are, presumably, why audiences are buying tickets to see 28 Years Later, which reunites Boyle with his co-writer Alex Garland.

1 week ago | thefilmverdict.com | Alonso Duralde

VERDICT: Plenty of joyous visual detail in this Pixar story of a boy who wants to be abducted by aliens, but an excess of incident robs the characters of much depth.

2 weeks ago | thefilmverdict.com | Alonso Duralde

VERDICT: Fans of the original have no reason to seek out the live-action remake, which competently rehashes the beloved animated classic while adding almost nothing new.

3 weeks ago | thefilmverdict.com | Alonso Duralde

One imagines screenwriter Shay Hatten (Rebel Moon) spinning a big Wheel of Weapons that would land on “hand grenades” or “flame-thrower” or “dishware,” leading him to craft novel ways for de Armas to implement these deadly items. The fight scenes are all Ballerina has going for it, but they’re frequent, varied, and clever enough to make watching the film a worthy summer pastime.

4 weeks ago | thefilmverdict.com | Alonso Duralde

Still, that collapsing object of beauty sticks in the mind, since The Phoenician Scheme sees Anderson indulging in all of his usual design fetishes (we don’t just get precisely-lettered labels on ornate boxes, we also get the yellowing cellophane tape affixed to those labels) without seeming to get around to a story or characters or themes.