Planes, Trains and Automobiles but guns and much dumber. I've been on 17-hour bus rides that felt shorter than this--and I turned it off after only 80 minutes of its 126 minute runtime. I might have stuck it out if not for the insipid and overbearing soundtrack by Danny Elfman. Like the rest of the movie, the score can't seem to find the right tone. The leads lack chemistry and stumble over their lines, which is pretty wild for a…

Utterly weird and delightful. Released in 1941, contains a sight gag that spoils Citizen Kane, which also came out that year. Cheeky! And topical--yet the joke still lands 80 years later. The first ten minutes are some of the most frenetic, intense, and funny filmmaking I've ever seen, and though it flags a little towards the end and not every musical number sustains the manic energy that propels most of the movie, I laughed a lot and the Lindy Hop…