Rags-to-champion biopic Fighting With My Family keeps the eyes entertained and the heart engaged with its fictionalized wrestling—but very real drama.
9 out of 12 Tamales
Tamale Movie Reviews the Oscars 2019:
8. Bohemian Rhapsody—6.5 out of 12 Tamales
7. BlacKkKlansman—8 out of 12 Tamales
6. A Star is Born—8.5 out of 12 Tamales
5. Black Panther—8.5 out of 12 Tamales
4. Green Book—9 out of 12 Tamales
3. The Favourite—9.5 out of 12 Tamales
2. Vice—10 out of 12 Tamales
1. Roma—10.5 out of 12 Tamales
“The Favourite”: One-Sentence Review
A fireball of period piece fan fiction, director Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite manipulates English history to its benefit, fashioning a not-so-true, almost-always-amusing black comedy.
9.5 out of 12 Tamales
“Alita: Battle Angel”: One-Sentence Review
Alita, a kaleidoscope of highly executed action sequences, fires the synapses at full tilt; however, this comic-based, Pinocchio-inspired story runs out of steam twenty minutes too early.
8.5 out of 12 Tamales
“The Sixth Sense”: Throwback-Tamales Review
The twist ending that started it all is masterfully executed by writer-director M. Night Shyamalan in 1999’s The Sixth Sense, a well-crafted, haunting drama that still has us seeing dead people 20 years after its release.
11 out of 12 Tamales
“Russian Doll”: One-Sentence Review
Although the plot device, reliving the same day over and over, has been done and redone, Russian Doll’s take makes it feel off-the-cuff fresh, a Netflix show worth watching—and re-watching.
10 out of 12 Tamales
“The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part”: One-Sentence Review
Everything is somewhat awesome for The Lego Movie 2, an adequate—occasionally hilarious—followup to the better put together 2014 original.
7.5 out of 12 Tamales
“Green Book”: One-Sentence Review
For a true story (or at least one inspired by truth) about traveling the Deep South, Green Book takes the safest route through the epicenter of the civil rights movement; however, its lack of immediacy is overridden by the pure enjoyability of Viggo Mortensen’s Tony Lip and Mahershala Ali’s Dr. Shirley’s banter.
9 out of 12 Tamales
“Fyre”: One-Sentence Review
Netflix’s documentary Fyre builds world-class tension as it painfully chronicles the stunningly infuriating events that led to the disastrous, ultimately canceled Fyre Festival.
10 out of 12 Tamales
“The Kid Who Would Be King”: One-Sentence Review
The adventure is palpable and the characters lively in director Joe Cornish’s worthy addition to the Arthurian movie canon, The Kid Who Would Be King.
9 out of 12 Tamales
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