The most shocking part of The Iron Claw is Zac Efron outacting Jeremy Allen White. Sorry, no. The most shocking part is when you Google “Von Erich brothers” and find out that the movie left out an entire brother named Chris, who died by suicide reportedly because he felt insignificant. This maybe isn’t as gross […]

Bereft of new ideas, beholden to silly slo-mo shenanigans, let it be known that writer/director Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon is only truly harmful to those of us who care about proper punctuation. Netflix appears to have it as Rebel Moon — Part One: A Child of Fire. Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB have it as Rebel […]

Coming-of-age movies are mostly a nuisance. They are pinatas filled with personal nostalgias, burst by sticks swung by well-intended, often-talented narcissists. Poor Things gleefully, hilariously shatters the format. If Barbie is a late-life epiphany movie that declares “Women have it impossibly hard,” director Yorgos Lanthimos’s bizarro bildungsroman asks “What would it look like if someone […]

Most things end like crap. I’m not just talking about the new Star Wars trilogy, but pretty much everything. Your favorite athlete will likely hold on too long. She’ll go from bringing you unbridled joy to looking lost or getting hurt. The very best outcome for the very best romantic relationship in your life is […]

For a brief moment early in May December, I thought the film would be my stargate to understanding what makes a film campy. Whilst sullenly staring into her fridge, grim music plays as Julianne Moore woefully lisps “I don’t think we have enough hot dogs.” Alas, I am a cyclops standing before a magic eye […]

Seated next to a delightfully dorky family during Alamo Drafthouse’s preshow for Godzilla Minus One, I was privy to a debate between father and sons as to which kaiju battle was least satisfying. Ebirah, who looks like a crawdad on nuclear steroids, was the recipient of some serious shade. Then we all watched what was […]

Prequels are generally trash, movie musicals are often a mess, and villain-centric narratives are almost always disturbingly sympathetic to wretched ideals. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is a villain-centric prequel with enough singing to count as a quasi-musical. It’s somehow great? This is because it feels like Suzanne Collins wrote the […]

The difference between what is stupid-bad and what is stupid-fun is a deeply personal one. For me, it’s the difference between an octopus playing the drums in Aquaman and a litter of cats vomiting tentacles set to an Andrew Lloyd Weber song in The Marvels. It is impossible to objectively explain why the former made […]

Before the film starts, DidSheDoIt.com briefly flashes on the screen. At some point during the next 151 minutes, you will come to a one-word answer to that URL’s question. Maybe your stance will change, evolving over the runtime. Maybe you stubbornly cling to your initial reaction to the film’s first scene. Whatever you decide, you […]