The Invite is an excellent return to form for Olivia Wilde as a director and is easily one of the best films I've seen all year. This is a razor sharp, whip smart, and insightful look into adult relationships, marriage. and all the complexities that come with it, that many will be able to relate to and connect with deeply. The shot composition, blocking, and direction from Wilde is nothing short of amazing and surprisingly creative especially with this being…
Minions & Monsters is way better than it has any right to be and is honestly one of Illumination's best films to date. This a fun, breezy, and super enjoyable love letter to old school Hollywood with plenty of loving homages and hilarious references to classic cinema that genuinely caught me off guard. It's as beautifully animated, heartfelt, and chaotically funny as you'd expect with the Minion shenanigans never growing tiresome, and the voice cast giving it their all particularly Trey…
It's predictable, cliched, and it does run to long containing some unnecessary subplots but "The Intern" is still a really sweet and enjoyable film to watch. Robert De Niro is terrific and Anne Hathaway is really good as well and the two of them do share some really good chemistry. The tone also balances drama, comedy and a little romance pretty nicely as well. It's nothing to special, but it's still a irresistibly charming crowd pleaser.
I expected this to be good but I didn't expect it to be great. Sure not every joke works and the film starts off a little rocky, "Instant Family" is still one of the most funny, honest, touching, powerful, and above all else heartwarming films of the year. Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne are perfectly cast while the kids are great as well and you really buy their chemistry. Don't have too much to say about this one but it really is one of the most enjoyable movies of the year and I just appreciated how honest this movie was. Go see this.
