BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE Reviewed by GREG KING Directors: Adil El Arbi and Billal Fallah Stars: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Jacob Scipio, Eric Dane, Ioan Gruffudd, Vanessa Hudgens, Joe Pantoliano, Rhea Seahorn, Alexander Lustig, Paoloa Nunez, D J Khaled, Tasha Smith, Melanie Liburd, Tiffany Haddish, John Salley, Dennis Greene. Following his controversial altercation… Read More »
GEMINI MAN
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Ang Lee Stars: Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen, Benedict Wong, Douglas Hodge, Ralph Brown, Linda Emond, E J Bonilla, Ilia Volok. Henry Brogan (Will Smith) is an aging government assassin who has retired from the profession after 72 kills. He has become disenchanted with the profession and the… Read More »
COLLATERAL BEAUTY
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: David Frankel Stars: Will Smith, Edward Norton, Kate Winslet, Michael Pena, Helen Mirren, Kiera Knightley, Jacob Lattimore, Naomie Harris, Ann Dowd, Kylie Rogers. “There is collateral beauty in everything.” Ironically though there is little beauty to be found in this maudlin and flawed drama about grief and a man damaged… Read More »
SUICIDE SQUAD
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: David Ayer Stars: Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Jared Leto, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, Carla Delevinge. Jay Hernandez, Jai Courtney, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Common, Scott Eastwood, Ike Barinholtz, David Harbour, Ezra Miller, Ben Affleck, Kevin Vance, Adam Beach, Karen Fukuhara, Corina Calderon. A motley collection of psychopathic killers are released from prison… Read More »
CONCUSSION
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Peter Landesman Stars: Will Smith, Albert Brooks, Alec Baldwin, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Eddie Marsan, David Morse, Paul Reiser, Arliss Howard, Luke Wilson, Mike O’Malley, Hill Harper, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Stephen Moyer, Richard T Jones, Sara Lindsey. There was an irony in the fact that we were watching a media preview of Concussion… Read More »
FOCUS
Reviewed by GREG KING Directors: Glenn Ficarra and John Requa Stars: Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Gerald McRaney, Rodrigio Santoro, Adrian Martinez, B D Wong, Brennan Brown, Robert Taylor, Dotan Bonen, Domninic Fumusa. Will Smith desperately needs a hit to reverse his box office slump, especially in the wake of some recent misfires like the dire After… Read More »