Double Tap takes the adage “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” to heart; unfortunately, the heart’s undead and pumped out its best jokes a movie ago.
6 out of 12 Tamales
“El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie”: One-Sentence Review
That El Camino’s just an expansion of Breaking Bad’s final episode, poorly aged cast aside, is this film’s greatest strength—and only weakness.
10 out of 12 Tamales
“Breaking Bad”: One-Sentence Review
Creator Vince Gilligan’s Breaking Bad, a tour de force of a show that few have matched—at any level—before it or after it, blurs the line between cinema and coaxial.
12 out of 12 Tamales
“Joker”: One-Sentence Review
Staying within the confines of cinema and entertainment, Joker is a glorious achievement—planting a diabolical seed which threatens to take the Dark Knight into the darkest of nights.
11 out of 12 Tamales
“Rambo: Last Blood”: One-Sentence Review
With Last Blood, all creativity is used up where it counts, the brutal, heart-ripping (quite literally) final 30 minutes, everything else is just filler.
7 out of 12 Tamales
“Ad Astra”: One-Sentence Review
Not arthouse enough—and even with Armageddon’s Liv Tyler—not tentpole enough, Ad Astra struggles to find itself in the recesses of deep space, despite a resurgent Brad Pitt at the helm.
6 out of 12 Tamales
“Unbelievable”: One-Sentence Review
Unbelievable is throw-your-sofa-cushion-at-the-screen, or your-entire-sofa—frustrating, a true-crime whodunit that leaves you questioning more than guessing.
11 out of 12 Tamales
“Hustlers”: One-Sentence Review
While Hustlers doesn’t always work, Jennifer Lopez more than fills in the stilettos necessary to make this stripped-down version of Ocean’s Eleven better than it should be.
8.5 out of 12 Tamales
“It: Chapter 2”: One-Sentence Review
It: Chapter 2’s humor, especially Bill Hader’s, is this sequel’s biggest strength, but an over reliance on campy CGI and cheap scares continue to plague this Stephen King adaptation.
6 out of 12 Tamales
“The Boys”: One-Sentence Review
The Boys, or the anti-Avengers, poses the question, what if superheroes were owned by corporate America, and this Amazon show’s answer is dangerously dark, funny and thoroughly entertaining.
11 out of 12 Tamales
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