Welcome to the Author Archive for Melanie Fischer

• Let's Talk About the Unsung Hero of 'One Battle After Another'
• Review: 'A Big, Bold, Beautiful Journey' Takes a Pratfall into Cinematic Purgatory
• 'Highest 2 Lowest' Review: Does Spike Lee Have the Worst Ear in the Business?
• 'Eden' Review: Ron Howard ... Why?
• Review: 'Materialists' Starring Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal
• Review: 'Another Simple Favor' Is Simply Another Sequel Here For a Good Time, Not a Long Time
• Notes on 'The Studio' From an Actual Hollywood Assistant
• 'G20' Review: Viola Davis Has Entered Her Gerard Butler Era
• Gal Gadot Is a Mess In a Class Of Its Own in Disney's 'Snow White' Remake
• 'Unstoppable' Review: The Fearless Anthony Robles Deserves a Braver Film
• Pajiba 10 FYC: The Cillian Murphy Ascendancy Is Here
• Review: In 'Small Things Like These,' Cillian Murphy Crafts a Compelling Portrait of a Good Man in Crisis
• 'Lonely Planet' Review: Romance is Dead and Netflix Killed It
• 'Omni Loop' Is a Dreadfully Convoluted Waste of Ayo Edebiri
• Review: 'Greedy People' Really Wants to be a Coen Brothers Film When it Grows Up
• Review: 'Inside Out 2' Is a Heartfelt Emotional Journey with only a Minor Case of Sequelitis
• 'Atlas' Review: Why Is Netflix's North Star a C-?
• Review: 'The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare' Goes Bang with a Whimper
• Review: 'Damsel' Needs Saving from the Soulless Netflix Formula
• Review: 'Lisa Frankenstein' Is Just a Cinderella Story That Shops at Hot Topic
• Review: 'The Holdovers' is a Throwback in All the Best Ways
• 'Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour': What Hollywood Can Learn from Taylor Swift
• Review: 'TMNT: Mutant Mayhem' Is Silly, Safe, and Still a Good Time
• Review: Stunning, Sterile 'Oppenheimer' is Christopher Nolan at His Best and Worst
• Review: 'No Hard Feelings' Is Here for a Good Time, Not a Long Time
• Review: Scary Good 'The Blackening' Serves Up Hilariously Sharp Wit in Spades
• Review: 'The Little Mermaid' Offers a Glimpse of a Bleak Movie Future
• 'Chevalier' Review: Trailblazing Virtuoso Takes Center Stage in an Underwhelming Biopic
• Review: 'Renfield' Is Too Busy Worrying We're All Stupid to Be Any Good
• 'A Good Person' Review: Florence Pugh Shines in Yet Another Lousy Film
• 'Cocaine Bear' Review: This Is a Bear. This Is a Bear on Drugs.
• Schlocky Gerard Butler Action Flick 'Plane' Is the January-est Movie Ever Made
• 'Emancipation' Review: I Want Reparations For Slogging Through This
• 'She Said' Is a Righteous Recap and a Bad Movie
• 'Don't Worry Darling' Review: Do Worry, Darling, This Is Trash
• 'Amsterdam' Review: David O. Russell Needs to Be Stopped
• Review: Crowd-Pleasing 'The Woman King' Revitalizes the Old-School Historical Epic
• Review: 'Bullet Train' Spoils Dumb Fun with White Nonsense
• Jordan Peele's 'Nope' Is a Good-Enough Mess of Half-Baked Brilliance
• Review: 'Interceptor' is a Casually Unhinged, Braindead Load of Occasionally Amusing Nonsense
• In 'Along For The Ride,' The Netflix Algorithm Cruises on Autopilot