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★★★★½ Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
Ups the ante while never taking itself too seriously, Hail Satan!
Brooks Bird
Critic
Brooks Bird
Raised in Salt Lake City, Utah (for better and worse), Cinenerd is a ravid film-goer who just wants to let people know what's good or far from it. Cinenerd has had an obsession with film his entire life and has been writing about them since 2009.
The only things that he loves more are his wife and their two wiener dogs (Beatrix Kiddo and Pixar Animation). His reviews can also be found on his personal blog Cinenerd's REELvoice and Blog Critics.
Favorites
Rated 4½ stars and up R
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PG-13
★★★★½ Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Huge action! Huge story! Huge runtime! See it on a huge screen!
Brooks Bird
R
★★★★½ Wolf Man
Whannell ratchets up the tension with each scene for another white-knuckle notch on his belt.
Brooks Bird
R
★★★★★ Alien: Romulus
Harkens back to the original's horror roots, while honoring a surprising entry along the way.
Brooks Bird
R
★★★★★ Deadpool & Wolverine
No spoilers! Everyone likes their first time to be special. Every bit as hilarious as you'd expect, with way more heart than you'd expect.
Brooks Bird
PG
★★★★½ IF
Fantastic family entertainment the likes of which we don't see much anymore. Hilarious and heartfelt and genuine, oh my!
Brooks Bird
Harshest takes
2 stars and under
R
★★★★★ The Killer’s Game
Surprisingly gory, even if via CGI, but painfully boring with no chemistry to speak of between a single cast member.
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R
★★★★★ Barbarian
Starts off interesting before completely nosediving as it bullrushes to the hilariously inept climax. Salt in the wound that this was released in theaters and 'Prey' wasn't. Way to go, Disney.
Brooks Bird
PG-13
★★★★★ Dear Evan Hansen
Just because you're waving through a window, doesn't mean anyone has to be waving back. If anything, they should be waving this adaptation away in dismissal.
Brooks Bird
PG-13
★★★★★ Old
After the likes of recent horror offerings such as 'Freaky' and the "Fear Street" trilogy, we deserve better, especially when it comes from someone we know can do better.
Brooks Bird
R
★★★★★ Great White
You know a shark movie has failed when even I can't love its 'Jaws: The Revenge'-level ridiculousness.
Brooks Bird
R
★★★★★ Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard
Horrible on every level. The 1-star rating comes from the assurance that within 99 minutes, the cast is bound to make you laugh at least once.
Brooks Bird
Latest reviews
R
★★★★½ Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
Ups the ante while never taking itself too seriously, Hail Satan!
Brooks Bird
PG-13
★★★★½ Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Huge action! Huge story! Huge runtime! See it on a huge screen!
Brooks Bird
R
★★★★★ Clown in a Cornfield
Old school slasher fun with just enough gore for horror hounds while not getting preachy about life in Middle America.
Brooks Bird
PG
★★★★★ The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
Hilarious and endearing, this is the Looney Tunes movie we've been waiting for.
Brooks Bird
R
★★½★★ Love Hurts
The action is great... when there is any.
Brooks Bird
R
★★★★½ Wolf Man
Whannell ratchets up the tension with each scene for another white-knuckle notch on his belt.
Brooks Bird
R
★★★★★ Y2K
Hilarious, gory, and occasionally pretty warped. It's new millennium nostalgia porn, so your mileage may vary.
Brooks Bird
PG
★★★★★ Moana 2
It's not that I'm mad at you, 'Moana 2,' I'm just so disappointed in you.
Brooks Bird
PG
★★½★★ Wicked
Way too long, with even more to come, but it will leave its fans in sheer Oz, I mean, awe of its attempted spectacle.
Brooks Bird
R
★★★★★ The Killer’s Game
Surprisingly gory, even if via CGI, but painfully boring with no chemistry to speak of between a single cast member.
Brooks Bird
R
★★★★★ Alien: Romulus
Harkens back to the original's horror roots, while honoring a surprising entry along the way.
Brooks Bird
R
★★★★★ Deadpool & Wolverine
No spoilers! Everyone likes their first time to be special. Every bit as hilarious as you'd expect, with way more heart than you'd expect.
Brooks Bird
PG-13
★★★★★ Twisters
Forgoes nostalgia dumpster diving in favor of broadening the franchise with a new story and characters.
Brooks Bird
PG
★★★★½ IF
Fantastic family entertainment the likes of which we don't see much anymore. Hilarious and heartfelt and genuine, oh my!
Brooks Bird
R
★★★★★ The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Based on true events, but undoubtedly with way more 'splosions and gunfights, and all for the better!
Brooks Bird
PG-13
★★★★★ Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
With a more convoluted cast than story, there's still some power left in the proton packs after 40 years.
Brooks Bird
PG-13
★★★★½ Dune: Part Two
"Part Two" finally gives us the whole we've been waiting for and then some!
Brooks Bird
R
★★★★★ Drive-Away Dolls
Every bit as hilarious and head-scratchingly lovable as we've come to expect from a Coen.
Brooks Bird
PG-13
★★★★★ Night Swim
A few well-paced scare sequences never add up to more than what you've already guessed by the end.
Brooks Bird
PG-13
★★★★½ The Marvels
Light and breezy, this is a new wham bam thank you ma'am Marvel that I could get used to.
Brooks Bird
R
★★★★½ Strays
As filthy and hilarious as it is shockingly heartwarming, the doggone funniest film of the year has arrived.
Brooks Bird
R
★★½★★ The Last Voyage of the Demeter
Stylish and elegant by today's standards, but never once scary and plays more like a thriller than horror.
Brooks Bird
PG
★★★★★ Elemental
Those who missed this charming slice-of-Pixar can now stream it from home!
Brooks Bird
PG
★★★★★ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Our beloved "heroes in a half shell" finally get their due on the big screen in a 'Spider-Verse' level reboot.
Brooks Bird