Film Fight 2019: March

#FF19 Captain Marvel is a good, mid-tier superhero movie.

Brie Larson is great, as always, but doesn’t have much character to work with until the 2nd half.

The second act is a little slow, and some of the music choices are painfully on the nose.

Still, a good, fun movie.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) March 10, 2019

#FF19 The Kindergarten Teacher follows Maggie Gyllenhaal as the titular character who discovers a child prodigy.

The film is a beautiful reflection on her own life, with a relatively light touch.

The ending isn’t quite earned for me, but still very good.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) March 26, 2019

#FF19 Paddleton is a look at friendship between two slightly odd men, faced with cancer.

It’s funny, touching, and a pleasant little indie film. The ending, in particular, is beautiful and devastating. Well worth seeing.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) March 26, 2019

#FF19 Triple Frontier has a pretty solid cast, but squanders them in a so-so action film.

There are moments of tension, but they’re mired in clunky dialogue and plotting. Some of the action sequences, particularly towards the end, play fairly flat too. Not awful, but forgettable

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) March 26, 2019

#FF19 Mirage has a decent, if done before, premise; where intervening in the past causes problematic ripples.

The twists are somewhat predictable and the lack of consistency is annoying.

Moments work well, but it feels overlong. Okay.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) March 26, 2019

#FF19 Us is an interesting horror film. Odd, tense, lightly funny, and at other times brutal.

Its message, and metaphor, are handled with enough fuzziness to make them malleable.

A tiny bit long in places.

It’s hard to discuss without spoiling, so I’ll simply say: watch it.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) March 26, 2019