The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

How Did This End up Under the Tree!?                               1/5


Costumes
     While seemingly reusing many of the assets from last years Beauty and the Beast, the costumes in the film are conservatively great











Rotten Tomatoes 35%                                  Cinemascore: B+

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms is the worst film of 2018 so far. Where as Night School was just bad, this is ambitiously bad, and I don't mean in the risk taking since. The Four Realms follows every Disney cliche from the previous years to a soul crushing teeth. No character here is interesting, many are unbearable, even the title character "The Nutcracker" is embarrassingly shallow. Disney seems to have a habit of releasing one film every year that fails on nearly every conceivable level, at first I thought that to be Wrinkle in Time, then Solo gave that a run for its money, but Nutcracker is a different level of bad. So little about this movie is good and too much is just awful. This is an unforgivably bad film, keep Christmas looking bright and avoid this one like a lump of coal.

Bohemian Rhapsody

Rock You it Does!                                                                 3/5


Biopic
     The Film is simultaneously a retelling and embellishing of the sensation that is Queen

Standout
     I echo what so many others do, Rami Malek as Freddie makes this movie everything it is

Musical
     Well kind of...at least this is more a Musical then Star is Born so I guess that counts.

Crowd Pleaser
     An A on Cinemascore, and applause from the audience I was with.


Rotten Tomatoes 59%                                  Cinemascore: A

Bohemian Rhapsody is just as fun as the trailers made it out to be. Rami Malek crushes it and runs away with the movie as the legend Freddie Mercury. The film does suffer from some pacing issues most noticeable in the later half of the second act and into the third; the script lets down some of the film's bigger moments surrounding Freddie's personal life. However if what you wanted was a greatest hits homage to Queen, or a peek into the life of of the infamous Mr. Mercury, Bohemian Rhapsody is stuffed with more then you could ask for.