M.V. Moorhead
Tomatometer-approved critic
Movies reviews only
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) |
Despite all the thundering hordes and clanking armor and clashing steel and roiling brimstone and mystical spells and hideous ogres and such, the flavor is less like a Tolkien epic than like a Hope-Crosby Road comedy. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Mar 31, 2023
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A Good Person (2023) |
[Braff's] dialogue is robust and speakable, and he's helped by a unifying theme: the ubiquity of addiction in modern life. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Mar 24, 2023
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Champions (2023) |
The actors who play the team members are spirited, ebullient, confident performers with vivid personalities. They also bring out the best in Harrelson, who responds to them with what appears to be genuine warmth and delight. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Mar 10, 2023
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Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre (2023) |
Operation Fortune is essentially an off-brand Bond flick, and a sufficiently skilled one to offer an amusing, relaxing couple of hours free of substance and ethics. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Mar 03, 2023
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Cocaine Bear (2023) |
Banks has a lot of fun evoking '80s-movie atmosphere, not only with the costumes and cars and posters and overheard pop songs but with her direction. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Feb 24, 2023
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Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (2023) |
The visuals, however derivative, are elegant, witty and well-executed, and the glamorous cast is in pleasant form. Rudd's sly, subtle clowning is always good company, and he carries the movie effortlessly. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Feb 17, 2023
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80 for Brady (2023) |
By the end these women had me absurdly emotionally invested. This is, possibly, the lamest and most ridiculous film that has ever brought tears to my eyes. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Feb 03, 2023
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She Said (2022) |
An absorbing account, focusing on the extreme reluctance of the targets of Weinstein's savagery to be first to go on the record by name. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Jan 06, 2023
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Women Talking (2022) |
Though the tone is inevitably somber, Polley's direction is deft, and she leavens the gloom with some high-spirited moments. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Jan 06, 2023
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The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) |
McDonagh narrowly missed making a masterpiece here, but these performances are not to be missed. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Dec 31, 2022
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White Noise (2022) |
While the story's elusive ambiguities are intriguing for a while, they gradually start to get irritating... Still, the cast is strong, Driver is paradoxically both commanding and neurotic in the lead. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Dec 31, 2022
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American Murderer (2022) |
It's an absorbing feature debut for Gentile, a tense, believable piece of work, full of disturbing scenes that feel like something you'd witness as a passerby. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Dec 27, 2022
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Something from Tiffany's (2022) |
It's very undemanding, but it's inventive, Zoey Deutsch makes a sweet heroine and her costars, including the great Rose Abdoo as the Tiffany's clerk, are pleasant company. And it seems like it's a cut above most of the Hallmark Christmas movies. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Dec 27, 2022
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Cash on Demand (1962) |
Cushing, unsurprisingly, is great, and Morell is sensational, in maybe the best role he ever had, as the sinister yet curiously charismatic thief. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Dec 27, 2022
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The Whale (2022) |
The Whale is a vehicle, perhaps, but it's a vehicle for an unforgettable, maybe even classic star turn. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Dec 21, 2022
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Free Puppies! (2022) |
I was braced for a miserable time going into this one, but while the movie's implications, both cultural and logistical, are certainly sad, it's not depressing to watch. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Dec 19, 2022
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The Fabelmans (2022) |
Spielberg here dramatizes the anger and terror, the sense of betrayal, that can result when you begin to see your parents... not as stock figures in your story but as complex characters in their own. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Nov 25, 2022
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Good Night Oppy (2022) |
The effect of the film was, for me, not only thought-provoking but deeply emotional. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Nov 04, 2022
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The Retaliators (2021) |
It feels like it's trying too hard to be over-the-top gruesome; I couldn't take it seriously. The splatter is icky but never quite horrific on any deeper level. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Oct 25, 2022
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The Pez Outlaw (2022) |
Above all The PEZ Outlaw is wonderful because Glew seems like a fully, fearlessly self-revealed character onscreen, exasperating and lovable; when the movie takes a poignant turn in its final quarter, the emotion comes naturally. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Oct 24, 2022
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Fall (2022) |
Watching it didn't feel like getting sucked into a thriller; it felt like being imposed upon, deliberately inconvenienced. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Sep 28, 2022
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Clerks III (2022) |
Despite their arrested-adolescent poses, both Anderson and (especially) O'Halloran get across a sense of having emotionally matured; they show a warmth that deepens this silly fan-service movie. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Sep 13, 2022
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Mack & Rita (2022) |
This movie is fluffy to the point of insipidity, most of the dialogue is feeble, and the idea is thin at feature length, padded out with montage sequences. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Aug 15, 2022
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Thirteen Lives (2022) |
The movie's a bit of a harrowing ordeal at times, especially for those of us with a claustrophobic streak, but it's just about impossible not to invest in it emotionally. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Aug 07, 2022
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Bullet Train (2022) |
For me, it lacked any real emotional stakes, and the homestretch grows overblown and tediously overextended. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Aug 07, 2022
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Nope (2022) |
Nope is probably the best UFO movie since Close Encounters, though the sense of wonder is here tinged with the sinister and unwholesome. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Jul 22, 2022
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Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song (2021) |
It's a testament to [the song's] power that, even though we hear more than ten different artists performing it in this absorbing documentary, it doesn't get old. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Jul 15, 2022
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Fair Game (1986) |
Despite what she endures, our heroine remains defiantly brave throughout, and it would be absurd to deny how satisfying it is when she turns the tables on her tormentors. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Jul 15, 2022
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Glasshouse (2021) |
It's the most interesting post-apocalyptic yarn in quite a while. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Jul 15, 2022
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Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down (2022) |
The movie packs an infuriating punch, because it shows how much vibrancy and radiant ease Giffords lost to her injury. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Jul 15, 2022
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Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) |
As in 2017's delightful Thor: Ragnarok, Waititi plays this material for goofy laughs; there are cosmic gags here worthy of Melies. It's very silly, but unlike Ragnarok, it isn't only silliness. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Jul 08, 2022
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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021) |
Somewhere, I suppose, there's a critic working up a venomous pan of this animated feature, based on the viral 2010 online short and its sequels. But I'm not that critic. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Jul 08, 2022
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Lightyear (2022) |
Lightyear doesn't really have the tone of a comedy; it's surprisingly ambitious and surprisingly poignant. It's about the pain of living with our mistakes, and about the speed with which our lifetimes seem to get away from us. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Jun 17, 2022
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Jurassic World Dominion (2022) |
I thoroughly enjoyed Jurassic World Dominion. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Jun 10, 2022
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The Bob's Burgers Movie (2022) |
This movie is funny even if you've never seen the show. I can attest to this, because I've never seen the show, and I thought this movie was funny. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted May 27, 2022
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Top Gun: Maverick (2022) |
It's propulsive and spellbinding, even as you see every plot point coming at you as plainly as if it was on a radar screen. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted May 27, 2022
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Dealing with Dad (2022) |
Despite some sitcom-like schtick, the movie is a small triumph, a sweet but firmly unsentimental, believable family comedy that's no less genuinely funny for its edge of poignancy. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted May 24, 2022
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Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022) |
Most of us could do with a happy ending right now, and this movie serves up a couple of elegant ones. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted May 20, 2022
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The Argyle Secrets (1948) |
Even with his face bruised and his hair mussed from the various beatings he endures, Gargan is jolly company in the lead, and the supporting cast is a joy... - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted May 17, 2022
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) |
On the one hand, I'm a little over the Marvel "Multiverse." On the other hand, this newest adventure of Marvel's mystical mage is a lot of fun. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted May 06, 2022
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The Duke (2020) |
Suffice to say that Broadbent is flawless and lovable, and has the good sense to act as straight man when Helen Mirren, as his beyond fed-up wife Dorothy, hilariously lets rip at him. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Apr 29, 2022
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Charlotte (2021) |
The story is appallingly, almost unrelentingly sad, but it's also inspiring, and the animation is beautiful. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Apr 29, 2022
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Bronco Bullfrog (1970) |
Somehow their lack of operatics, and the movie's refusal to conform to a cautionary crime movie template -- or any kind of template, really -- gives these young people a comic dignity. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Apr 29, 2022
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Strange Brew (1983) |
This very silly but sweet-natured and sometimes hilarious '80s curio deserves a bigger cult. I defy anyone to deny the ring of Shakespearean poetry in a line like "Gee, you're real nice. If I didn't have puke breath, I'd kiss you." - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Apr 26, 2022
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The Northman (2022) |
It offers us almost no quarter, and asks none of us. For that, it has to be respected. Not many big-budget period movies are this unwilling to throw a sop to modern attitudes. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Apr 22, 2022
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Father Stu (2022) |
Taken on its own terms, as a peculiar, sweet yarn spun from truth, the movie is abosrbing and engaging. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Apr 13, 2022
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Lost Angel (2022) |
By the end, Lost Angel is both gripping and highly touching. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Apr 08, 2022
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Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) |
If memory serves--the first film didn't exactly tattoo itself on my mind--this new film is better than its predecessor. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Apr 08, 2022
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Morbius (2022) |
It has a truncated, cut-down feel to it, a suspicion supported by the presence of scenes in the trailer that didn't show up in the finished film. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Apr 01, 2022
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The Lost City (2022) |
It's pretty dumb. Even so, it sort of works. - Less Hat, Moorhead
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| Posted Mar 25, 2022
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