Bart Johnson

Reviews

Someone Like You

Faith-based movies don’t really bother me.  They speak to a specific crowd, and drive home values that make those movie goers comfortable.  If the films strike a discord in the messaging, the filmmaking is usually so hokey that the movies are easy to ignore.  The odd exception exists (Unplanned, 2019’s worst movie) but, otherwise, these movies are like water off a duck’s back.  Fickle faith-based movies, on the other hand….

Reviews

Held

If Saw’s Jigsaw Killer received his doctorate in marriage therapy, his counselling would resemble the drawn-out home invasion portrayed in Held, a sanctimonious and straight-up stupid thriller that squanders its potential for big scares in small spaces.