The Maine Edge

The Maine Edge is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Allen Adams
Rating Title/Year Author
1.5/5 Gemini Man (2019) Allen Adams Gemini Man is too serious to be silly and too silly to be serious, and no amount of Will Smith (and there's a lot) or fancy camera tech (and there's a lot) can fix it. As far as this film's success is concerned, two Wills make a Won't. EDIT
Posted Oct 15, 2019
4/5 Judy (2019) Allen Adams There's nothing particularly groundbreaking or exciting about the film itself, but Zellweger's performance alone is well worth the price of admission. EDIT
Posted Oct 15, 2019
4.5/5 Joker (2019) Allen Adams [Joker] is aggressive in its unpleasantness, doubling and tripling down on its unreliability as it forces us to follow along on a journey where the line between reality and delusion is indelibly blurred. EDIT
Posted Oct 10, 2019
3/5 In the Tall Grass (2019) Allen Adams If you're a horror fan, you probably won't regret spending 100 minutes on this one. If you're not, you might be better off using that time to mow the lawn. EDIT
Posted Oct 10, 2019
2/5 In the Shadow of the Moon (2019) Allen Adams In the Shadow of the Moon is a fundamentally flawed film...Maybe someone could travel back from the future and fix this mess ... or prevent it from ever happening in the first place. EDIT
Posted Oct 1, 2019
3.5/5 Abominable (2019) Allen Adams Simple rather than sophisticated, Abominable is a sweet and inoffensive time at the movies - not great, but good enough. EDIT
Posted Oct 1, 2019
5/5 Ad Astra (2019) Allen Adams At its core, Ad Astra is a film about coming to terms with who we are, about understanding our choices and the motivations behind them. It's about finding ways to let go of the past while holding onto the lessons we learned from it. EDIT
Posted Sep 25, 2019
4/5 Downton Abbey (2019) Allen Adams For all intents and purposes, [Downton Abbey] is The Force Awakens for the NPR set, and it's a fantastic thing. EDIT
Posted Sep 25, 2019
1/5 Rambo: Last Blood (2019) Allen Adams At this point, all we can do is hope that Rambo: Last Blood is true to its title, because no one needs any more of this. Time for Stallone to let Rambo bleed out. EDIT
Posted Sep 25, 2019
5/5 Hustlers (2019) Allen Adams At its heart, [Hustlers] is a heist movie, only with a buddy comedy sensibility, all of it powered by the pop culture dynamo that is J-Lo. So yeah - hit the club and make it rain. You'll be glad you did. EDIT
Posted Sep 21, 2019
2/5 The Goldfinch (2019) Allen Adams What we have in The Goldfinch is essentially an echo of a prestige film, an offering that bears many of the outer indicators of Oscar bait, but is largely devoid of substance once you move beyond those surface trappings. EDIT
Posted Sep 21, 2019
4/5 Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019) Allen Adams Brittany Runs a Marathon is a funny, surprisingly tender character study about what happens when you want to be better than you are ... and what that even means. EDIT
Posted Sep 21, 2019
4.5/5 It: Chapter Two (2019) Allen Adams Where the first film showed the raw power of those childhood ties that bind, [It Chapter Two] found ways to show the way that those ties might fade and fray, but never break. EDIT
Posted Sep 5, 2019
3.5/5 The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) Allen Adams The Peanut Butter Falcon might not be a perfect movie, but it is certainly a worthwhile one ... a film driven by humor and heart. EDIT
Posted Sep 5, 2019
4/5 Ready or Not (2019) Allen Adams [In] Ready or Not, you get a brutal and darkly funny twist on horror movie tropes. You'll laugh, you'll cringe ... and you'll probably do both at the same time. All in all, you'd do well to seek this one out. EDIT
Posted Aug 28, 2019
2/5 Angel Has Fallen (2019) Allen Adams [T]here's something admirable in the willingness of the filmmakers to unapologetically embrace every formulaic flourish at which they could aim a camera. It's so lazy that it's almost inspired. EDIT
Posted Aug 28, 2019
4/5 Good Boys (2019) Allen Adams If you're like me, someone who still remembers what it was like to be a confused 12-year-old idiot driven by hormones and peer approval, you're going to see a lot of yourself on the screen. EDIT
Posted Aug 22, 2019
4/5 Blinded by the Light (2019) Allen Adams Being part of the world when you're not sure how you fit is tremendously difficult; that feeling pours forth from every scene in this film. EDIT
Posted Aug 22, 2019
3/5 The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019) Allen Adams There's a dog with an inner monologue who has thoughts and feelings and engages with the thoughts and feelings of people, so what am I supposed to do? I'm not made of stone. EDIT
Posted Aug 13, 2019
1.5/5 The Kitchen (2019) Allen Adams It honestly doesn't matter if you can stand the heat or not - you'll want to get out of The Kitchen. EDIT
Posted Aug 13, 2019
3.5/5 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019) Allen Adams Hobbs & Shaw is big and dumb, yes, but it is also undeniably entertaining...even if you're not quite sure why any of this is even happening. And really, is there a more apt representation of the summer blockbuster? EDIT
Posted Aug 7, 2019
1/5 Otherhood (2019) Allen Adams The reality is that you simply don't care about any of these people - they're all kind of awful, really - and without empathetic engagement ... what's the point? EDIT
Posted Aug 7, 2019
5/5 Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019) Allen Adams [Once Upon A Time ... In Hollywood] is a fairy tale, with all that that term implies. It is weird and sprawling, filled with sharp edges and gentle curves. Just like Hollywood. EDIT
Posted Jul 31, 2019
3/5 The Lion King (2019) Allen Adams The Lion King is fine, an inoffensive family-friendly cinematic experience. It's the same thing that you've seen before. And in the end, that's probably OK ... just nothing more than that. EDIT
Posted Jul 24, 2019
3.5/5 Crawl (2019) Allen Adams If you want a throwback good time, a movie where the flaws are fun and the fundamental stupidity is a feature, not a bug, then God help you - you want Crawl. EDIT
Posted Jul 16, 2019
2.5/5 Stuber (2019) Allen Adams Honestly, you're probably better off calling a Lyft. EDIT
Posted Jul 16, 2019
5/5 Midsommar (2019) Allen Adams Midsommar is one of the weirder wide releases that we've gotten in quite some time, a bizarre and occasionally gruesome puzzle box of a movie rendered all the darker by the fact that it never actually gets dark. EDIT
Posted Jul 9, 2019
5/5 Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) Allen Adams [A] delightful standalone film...a quippy, flippy movie packed with web-slinging action and some first-rate comic beats. Even far from home, Spider-Man remains close to our hearts. EDIT
Posted Jul 6, 2019
4/5 Yesterday (2019) Allen Adams Yesterday has a few issues, but they're minor ones in the grand scheme of things...In terms of a pure good time, you'll be hard pressed to find a better time at the movies this summer. EDIT
Posted Jul 4, 2019
5/5 Toy Story 4 (2019) Allen Adams Honestly, it's just about the best possible follow-up to a movie that seemingly needed no follow-up...I didn't want Toy Story 4 - but I sure am glad I got it. EDIT
Posted Jun 26, 2019
3/5 Child's Play (2019) Allen Adams [Child's Play] brings together the sensibility of 1980s vintage horror with the Big Brother concerns of today, resulting in something that, while flawed, is undeniably entertaining. EDIT
Posted Jun 26, 2019
2/5 Men in Black: International (2019) Allen Adams [Y]ou won't even need a neuralyzer to forget this one - the memories will be mostly gone by the time you get home. EDIT
Posted Jun 19, 2019
1.5/5 Shaft (2019) Allen Adams All told, this Shaft is one bad mother - and not in the way we'd hoped. EDIT
Posted Jun 19, 2019
5/5 Late Night (2019) Allen Adams [A] clever comedy with something to say, a movie that will leave you laughing while also giving you some food for thought...Fearless and funny, Late Night is worth staying up for. EDIT
Posted Jun 19, 2019
1.5/5 Dark Phoenix (2019) Allen Adams It's not even that Dark Phoenix is bad - although it is, boring and meandering and occasionally incomprehensible - so much as that it is bad in the EXACT SAME WAYS that the last effort to tell this story was bad. EDIT
Posted Jun 11, 2019
3/5 The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019) Allen Adams The Secret Life of Pets 2 isn't a great movie, but that's OK. No one expected greatness - at most, we're looking for good enough-ness. EDIT
Posted Jun 11, 2019
4/5 Always Be My Maybe (2019) Allen Adams Always Be My Maybe isn't a masterpiece, but it doesn't need to be. It is a well-made piece of romantic comedy...a movie for which it is absolutely worth pressing a few remote buttons. EDIT
Posted Jun 4, 2019
5/5 Rocketman (2019) Allen Adams Rocketman is a better movie than Bohemian Rhapsody and [Taron] Egerton's performance as Elton John is better than [Rami] Malek's as Freddie Mercury. EDIT
Posted Jun 4, 2019
2.5/5 Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) Allen Adams Godzilla: King of the Monsters ultimately collapses under its own weight, the result of trying to do too much all at once. It'll scratch your giant-monster-fighting itch, but don't expect much else. EDIT
Posted Jun 4, 2019
5/5 Booksmart (2019) Allen Adams Booksmart is a heartfelt and honest comedy...with a great script, great direction and a fantastic central pairing. Seriously - however good you think this movie is, it's almost certainly better. EDIT
Posted May 29, 2019
3.5/5 Brightburn (2019) Allen Adams Brightburn is an unapologetic deconstruction of the very notion of superheroes ... It is bloody and bleak and unrelenting, a savage look at the dark side of the superhero coin. EDIT
Posted May 29, 2019
2.5/5 Aladdin (2019) Allen Adams Aladdin is ... OK. Not terrible. Not great. Just OK. And that bland meh-ness is maybe the worst place it could have landed; we're left with a movie that is almost defined by how unnecessary it feels. EDIT
Posted May 29, 2019
5/5 The Lonely Island Presents: The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience (2019) Allen Adams The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience genuinely feels as though it were made especially for me; it is a smart, hilarious piece of work by a remarkably talented trio. EDIT
Posted May 29, 2019
5/5 John Wick: Chapter 3 -- Parabellum (2019) Allen Adams In short, John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum kicks ass in every way you expect ... and a few that you don't. EDIT
Posted May 23, 2019
2.5/5 A Dog's Journey (2019) Allen Adams A Dog's Journey exists solely to allow moviegoers to feel feelings about dogs for 108 minutes. It is saccharine and unrelentingly sentimental, gleefully pushing emotional buttons. EDIT
Posted May 23, 2019
4/5 Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) Allen Adams The highest compliment I can pay Pokémon Detective Pikachu is this - you legitimately don't have to know a thing about Pokémon to enjoy it. EDIT
Posted May 16, 2019
2.5/5 The Hustle (2019) Allen Adams The Hustle never rises to the level of the films that came before it. Essentially, it's OK - and certainly better than advertised - but nothing more. EDIT
Posted May 16, 2019
3/5 The Intruder (2019) Allen Adams Basically, if you could distill the desire to shout "Don't go in there!" at a movie screen and turn it into an actual movie, you'd pretty much have The Intruder. EDIT
Posted May 9, 2019
4.5/5 Long Shot (2019) Allen Adams Long Shot is smart in all the ways you want it to be smart and dumb in all the ways you want it to be dumb. EDIT
Posted May 3, 2019
5/5 Avengers: Endgame (2019) Allen Adams Avengers: Endgame is a beautifully-constructed piece of popcorn cinema ... anyone who has given their time to this world will find it to be a rewarding and effective payoff. EDIT
Posted May 1, 2019