Film Review: Booksmart (2019)
byOnce written off as a fluff genre, the teen girl film is gaining traction as something to be respected. After Lady Bird, The Edge…
Once written off as a fluff genre, the teen girl film is gaining traction as something to be respected. After Lady Bird, The Edge…
The idea of the prodigal son returning home after an extended absence has been done a lot in movies. Because it’s so thematically rich though, unlike other plot cliché’s, it’s also been done well, memorably in movies like The Indian Runner, You Can Count on Me, No Looking Back and in Australia’s own (extremely worthy, early Russell Crowe vehicle) The Crossing.
Rather than a narrative, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone has a series of wacky events weakly held together to arrive at an inevitable conclusion. Thankfully, for a film that is constantly half-baked, the last set-piece is not actually half-bad.
Celebrated author Clay Hammond (Dennis Quaid) addresses a lecture theatre packed with literary nerds. He is there to give a reading from his much…