There are a great number of mysteries in Rian Johnson’s third leg of his Knives Out trilogy, many of which answered save one — at least expressly: Why does the lighting change so dramatically in many of the film’s most directly parochial scenes?

Mixes equal parts Clue and Memento for an exciting howdunit more than a whodunit.

Packs the screen with Hollywood heavyweights and fills each of their characters with enough charisma to rouse a coma ward.

Has the feel of a potluck dinner gone bad.

Wanders without focus instead of concentrating on the core story and characters.

Every so often a movie will come along that captivates movie reviewers and the statements you read about it make you wonder if, perhaps, someone at my theater switched it out for some inferior test version. Looper is a perfect example of that. This time-travel film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Joe (everyone in the film […]