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Toy Story 4
A review by Johnny Oleksinski for New York Post2019-06-13
Does it tug the heartstrings? Absolutely. Is it funny? The funniest of the quartet, in fact thanks to a weird new character. But Pixar, like its former funder Apple, has conditioned audiences to expect more than a nice little movie. We want to be amazed — not subscribe to Apple TV+.Read entire review on New York Post -
Men in Black: International
A review by Johnny Oleksinski for New York Post2019-06-12
A cautionary tale for the age of reboots, “International” takes over from a perfectly good comedy film series, and turns it into witless, generic space debris. It is the “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” of “MiB” — but somehow the aliens here are even worse.Read entire review on New York Post -
Late Night
A review by Johnny Oleksinski for New York Post2019-06-06
Kaling’s script addresses issues such as sexism in the #MeToo era, ageism and racial prejudice in her disarmingly light and sneaky way.Read entire review on New York Post -
Dark Phoenix
A review by Johnny Oleksinski for New York Post2019-06-04
Pretty far-fetched even for a franchise about rare genetic mutations that allow people to read minds and shoot lasers with their eyes. It’s not bad, just crazy.Read entire review on New York Post -
Ma
A review by Johnny Oleksinski for New York Post2019-05-30
Ma is a much more enjoyable ride than the even more preposterous “Greta,” which got lost in undeserved self-seriousness.Read entire review on New York Post -
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
A review by Johnny Oleksinski for New York Post2019-05-28
The whole movie is indistinguishable rubble.Read entire review on New York Post -
Booksmart
A review by Johnny Oleksinski for New York Post2019-05-24
It’s one of the funniest movies of the year.Read entire review on New York Post -
Rocketman
A review by Johnny Oleksinski for New York Post2019-05-22
Freddie Mercury may have had the better voice, but it’s Elton John who gets the better movie. Rocketman, director Dexter Fletcher’s trippy new biopic about the flamboyant rocker is braver, deeper and more enlightening than last year’s slobbering piece of Queen propaganda “Bohemian Rhapsody” (which he also partly directed).Read entire review on New York Post -
Aladdin
A review by Johnny Oleksinski for New York Post2019-05-22
Massoud and Scott make a live-action “Aladdin” succeed on a different level than a cartoon can — as a teary romance. “A Whole New World” is more moving than the original.Read entire review on New York Post -
The Sun Is Also a Star
A review by Johnny Oleksinski for New York Post2019-05-16
With stakes so high, the movie should pack a punch. But while it keeps its eye on the stars, its feet never leave the ground.Read entire review on New York Post -
The Hustle
A review by Johnny Oleksinski for New York Post2019-05-09
A loony con-job that comes up short on being convincing.Read entire review on New York Post -
Poms
A review by Johnny Oleksinski for New York Post2019-05-09
Still, Poms mostly patronizes older people as it turns them into punchlines. Be regressive! B.E. R.E.G.R.E.S.S.I.V.E!Read entire review on New York Post -
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
A review by Johnny Oleksinski for New York Post2019-05-08
Being obvious nostalgia bait for children of the ’90s, director Rob Letterman’s film has no right to be as good or well-crafted as it is. The plot takes major twists that come as legitimate surprises, and seeing those old cartoon characters plopped into our world rendered in CGI is enormously satisfying.Read entire review on New York Post -
UglyDolls
A review by Johnny Oleksinski for New York Post2019-05-02
The script is garbage, the voice acting is wooden and the songs are as infectious — and deadly — as the Mister Softee jingle.Read entire review on New York Post -
Avengers: Endgame
A review by Johnny Oleksinski for New York Post2019-04-23
It’s as sprawling and pulse-pounding a fight as you’re hoping it will be.Read entire review on New York Post -
Breakthrough
A review by Johnny Oleksinski for New York Post2019-04-19
It’s a harrowing tale that deserves a much better movie than this insipid junk.Read entire review on New York Post -
Hellboy
A review by Johnny Oleksinski for New York Post2019-04-10
The race for worst movie of the year is heating up. You could even say it’s hotter than hell, now that Hellboy has taken the lead. This awful, disgusting, unfunny, idiotically plotted comic book flick offends the senses as much as the rankest subway car on the hottest summer day.Read entire review on New York Post -
Pet Sematary
A review by Johnny Oleksinski for New York Post2019-04-05
Although mostly routine, Pet Sematary is intermittently scary.Read entire review on New York Post -
Shazam!
A review by Johnny Oleksinski for New York Post2019-04-03
With hero flicks getting as weighty and self-important as “The Handmaid’s Tale,” it’s a relief to watch one let its hair down. These gloomy films could use more exclamation points.Read entire review on New York Post -
Dumbo
A review by Johnny Oleksinski for New York Post2019-03-26
Those flight sequences — first suspenseful, then euphoric — take you back to the classic “Dumbo” as much as they do to classic Burton.Read entire review on New York Post
