Hellboy Is So Bad That It Doesn't Even Deserve A Fun Hell-Based Pun

Hellboy can now join esteemed company like Spider-Man and Batman in being one of the rare superheroes to headline both a great movie and a truly awful movie. While Hellboy II: The Golden Army rose to become one of the best superhero features back in 2008, the new 2019 Hellboy movie is rancid trash. It's a stunningly inept exercise that dumbfounds me in how they messed up a can't miss premise like this. A big red guy fighting fantasy monsters should be a can't-miss proposition for making an entertaining motion picture but much like The Amazing Spider-Man 2 or Batman v. Superman managed to utilize their own previously fun characters for garbage filmmaking, Hellboy finds so many ways to screw up its own basic premise and squander a top-notch cast in the process.

The Miseducation of Cameron Post Impresses With Its Characters And Its Acting

In many ways, you wouldn't know anything was askew at the primary backdrop of The Miseducation of Cameron Post, a gay conversion center known as God's Promise. The subdued nature of the movies visual tendencies means there isn't any grim color grading to indicate an atmosphere of misery while many major moments of dramatic importance aren't accompanied by a sweeping score that intrudes on the proceedings. Even the center that God's Promise is housed in looks like your typical summer camp both inside and out. But like the hungry bugs that lure prey with a colorful appearance, something can seem harmless on the outside while being incredibly malicious. 

Like Be Kind Rewind, Hearts Beat Loud Is An Exceptionally Endearing Movie About How Unifying Art Can Be

Hearts Beat Loud is 2018's answer to Bernie in that it's a sublime indie movie that totally would have been a big box office hit in both arthouse and mainstream movie theaters if only it had been distributed by a more high-profile movie studio that had actually given it a noteworthy theatrical release. Oh well, Hearts Beat Loud (as well as Bernie for that matter!) will live on long after a woefully small theatrical release thanks to just how entertaining it is. This is feel-good cinema done impeccably right that shows how well-realized characters, not unearned schmaltz, are what's needed to get one's heart soaring.