In my review of the first “Sonic the Hedgehog” movie, I suggested that the film had managed an incredible task – it had exactly the same amount of good and bad within it and therefore somehow hit a neutral state…. Read More ›
Ben Schwartz
Movie Review: “Standing Up, Falling Down”
Thank goodness for smaller movies that tell smaller stories. These are the movies that deal with human-sized problems in human-sized fashion. We are all so regularly caught up in big events, big cinema, that these smaller films too often escape… Read More ›
Movie Review: “Sonic the Hedgehog”
Based on the video game franchise, the new “Sonic the Hedgehog” film manages a truly amazing critical feat – as a whole it hits an absolutely neutral state. That is, the movie has good parts (Ben Schwartz as the voice… Read More ›
Movie Review: “Night School” (2018)
The new Kevin Hart-Tiffany Haddish comedy, “Night School,” is carefully calculated to create laughs, and it succeeds. Laughs are plentiful in the film. But, they are also cheap and unmemorable. More than anything else, “Night School” feels like an amusing,… Read More ›