Bog Garver: "This movie is the unwelcome slog that I expected"

"I know that the MCU can produce hits for both the movies and home, but it needs to make better decisions about which properties should be which."

"I think the majority of people enjoy the movie for about half its runtime, and then it takes a downturn that sends them home unhappy."

From a technical standpoint, the movie does everything pretty much perfectly.

'The best thing I can say about The Exorcist: Believer is that some of the cast members are trying hard.'

Occasional mushy stuff aside, “PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie” is mostly fun and exciting, at least by PAW Patrol standards.

'The action is cheap and tedious, the script is a joke, the jokes aren’t funny, and a twist toward the end means that a team member committed a completely unnecessary murder.'

A Haunting in Venice is director/star Kenneth Branagh’s third go-around as Agatha Christie-penned detective Hercule Poirot.

"It’s easy to see the filmmakers’ desperation to squeeze scares out of this weak material."

It has been five years since we last saw Robert “The Equalizer” McCall, as played by the ever-arresting Denzel Washington.

"This movie comes just short of being the first video game movie to earn my recommendation."

"I was going to give this movie a non-recommendation grade of C for being too bland, but then Nana showed up and saved the day."

"My biggest complaint is that the movie generally seems to be aspiring to nothing more than 'so bad it’s good' appeal."

"I could go on and on about how much 'fun' this movie is, but I don’t want to spoil any of the many great jokes."

“Oppenheimer” is the movie of the summer, maybe the year.

'For all its flaws in world-building, Barbie is still an incredibly fun movie.'

"I spent most of this movie having a hard time deciding if it was worth recommending."

Bob Garver reviews 3 movies in this week's Movie Review.

Until the time-travel conclusion (which is at least handled with more dignity than those aliens from “Crystal Skull”), “Dial of Destiny” is just perfectly average for Indiana Jones.

"As for the multiverse surprises that make the fans go crazy, you’ll get them, don’t worry."

“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” gives people exactly what they expect from a “Transformers” movie, but much less than what they should expect from a blockbuster.

"'Across the Spider-Verse' never officially loses its footing, but it ends weirdly."

"The kids at my screening loved it, though I may have just been hearing particularly high-pitched adults."

"If my interest is engine fuel, then this series has been leaking for the last three movies, and it’s just about out of gas."