Caro the Movie Critic

Mission: Impossible - Fallout is the sixth installment of this franchise and it is in the midst of the most consistent action/spy franchise to date as the James Bond series has been a bit inconsistent as of late with Casino Royale and Skyfall being great whereas Spectre  was a bit of a letdown yet decent enough and Quantum of Solace  was forgettable. This Mission Impossible franchise seems to keep on going with its momentum of creating better movies ever since Mission: Impossible III , where the franchise seemed to be dying off a bit but it had a memorable villain with the late great Philip Seymour Hoffman but it was  Ghost Protocol, the fourth movie, where each movie started to become an event because of how good director Brad Bird made that movie. Then, Rogue Nation  was very good but a bit lesser of an effort than its predecessor. With Fallout , this movie raises the bar on not solely the franchise but in action genres. This is technically, without question, th...

The transition from junior high to high school is massive for they will go through the last four years of not solely trying to achieve great grades and high SAT scores to get into college but also making a name of himself/herself for the sake of his/her self-esteem and for the school. But, in this day and age, social media is a huge element of one's youth as one would want to display or comment about what they are feeling as it would be highlight in friends' social media databases. Sometimes, negative or nasty comments would give you the boot from a job and/or raise concern from other people, especially from your loved ones. This movie combines adolescence and social media into something far greater about one tackling teen insecurity. This is a truthful portrait about the transition from teenager to young adult paralleling the ever-changing social media. Ladybird  was the definition of a great coming-of-age film last year, Eighth Grade carries on that same definition. Kayl...

Unfriended  was a great concept that turned into a decent enough movie that I liked. I thought that it was a good idea that teenagers will have slumber parties/horror movie marathons and enjoy. But, I predicted that there were going to be sequels from this great concept and I would question why. Why build upon a small success and then ruin it? Let the one movie build and see whether or not the movie's success catch on but no, the studios are eager to make more money and make more horror sequels that may be borderline passable. Well, this sequel is basically shocks and a message of not messing with the dark web because the characters and the story are not as interesting as the first movie. Matias O'Brien (Colin Woodell) has acquired on a new laptop that originally belonged to Norah C. IV. After multiple attempts to figure out the password, Matias only opens with a password that is simply a question mark. He starts to work on this app called Papaya, which hears the user'...

This movie explores the post-soldier life of a man living with PTSD and even though we explore PTSD a bit with American Sniper  throughout the movie. But, to have that and to live an idyllic life is quite complicated because you and your family are in another zip code, isolated from society. The one with PTSD has only his or her family to talk to. But, the movie tackles with family, kindness, solitude and independence in quite a fruitful way and director Debra Granik incorporates all of those themes into a story that is uplifting and heartbreaking. A war veteran named Will (Ben Foster) is suffering from PTSD and is living with his thirteen-year old daughter, Tom (Thomasin McKenzie), in isolated existence in a vast urban park in Oregon. Tom is accidentally spotted by a jogger and police take them away and put them in social services. They are giving food and a house in Oregon only on the condition that Will abides by the rules and follows certain instructions under the house's ...

This is a movie that is about the story of a set of American triplets - David Kellman, Bobby Shafran and Eddy Galland - that were adopted at a young age by separate families. They were unaware that they are brothers. They were part of an experiment which was a "nature vs nurture" twin study in which what would happens if they are raised in different environments in different circumstances. They discovered each other at the age of 19 and the movie how they found each other and how they got along with each other. But, the documentary goes in different directions that are unexpected and dark that keeps you attentive with such grace and sadness. But, the movie unravels with thrills and keeps you guessing until some of those revelations, happy, sad and shocking, maybe all at else. It is not solely a heartwarming story about three boys founding each other but it is a mystery of not about trying to find each other but also what they were up to with their different backgrounds. ...

Oh, God! Mamma Mia!  is coming back into my life like a dark cloud is coming back to overshadow my head and happiness. I hated that 2008 movie. It was inert, full of inconsistent feelings that did not connect or was forgotten from 5 minutes ago. There were plot holes in the situation of the Meryl Streep character and most of the singing was horrid. The only three minor elements that were enjoyable were the setting of Greece, the ABBA songs themselves and I guess, some of the choreography. Ok, I will add Meryl Streep's charisma but she is charismatic is many other better movies. Ok, I was not looking forward to seeing this movie but I have to be honest, I enjoyed this more than the first movie as there were some improvements in the screenplay and its consistent tone. But, despite the energy being high and jovial, the movie jumps back and forth trying to get me in the spirit but the storylines were so thin that I could not even bite enough of that flavor for me to enjoy this secon...

The Equalizer  was a solid success both critically and commercially that it was hailed an entertaining action flick headlined by Denzel Washington, who was bad-ass and driven. So, in his filmography, which was surprising and rewarding simultaneously, he was never in a sequel until this movie will have come out. I am assuming why Washington wanted to this is because that 1) he enjoyed the character so much (he is selective in choosing his scripts) and 2) he has a great, professional working relationship with director Antoine Fuqua, who garnered him a Best Actor Oscar. There were vibes of great energy in the action of this sequel and there is a good story of a young kid looking up to him but it seemed that the brutal tone of the main plot and the nice, light sub-plot did not seem gel together that it felt like too movies, one with a predictable outcome and another that seemed like it was fresh. Robert McCall (Denzel Washington), previously a worker in some sort of Home Depot sto...