One-Line Review: The Odd Couple (1968), starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau

Though perhaps hilarious at the time (as evidenced by the spinoffs), the humor leans so heavily on 1950s gender expectations that it’s hard to enjoy today.

One-Line Review: The Man Who Killed Hitler and then the Bigfoot (2018), starring Sam Elliot

The film’s magnificent title is out of sync with the emotional weight it tries to deliver, and Sam Elliot may be too understated an actor for the film’s ambitions.

One-Line Review: Night Hunter (2018), starring Henry Cavill

This is a muddle of a movie plagued by inconsistent characterization and dominated by terrible policework, especially in the interrogation room.

One-Line Review: Final Score (2018), starring Dave Bautista

Final Score tried so hard to be Die Hard, from useless police and minority sidekicks down to recording villains on your hand and throwing corpses off of roofs, but forgot to give us a charismatic villain or to humanize the hero with doubts or injuries that matter.

One-Line Review: The Silence (2019), starring Stanley Tucci and Kiernan Shipka

Stanley Tucci and Kiernan Shipka acted brilliantly, and Tucci headbutted someone with his perfect forehead, but this is otherwise a weak, watered down version of A Quiet Place with none of the daring.

One-Line Review: Siberia (2018), starring Keanu Reeves and Ana Ularu

Despite Reeves’ predictable flat affect, the two leads do a good job of portraying two damaged people grasping for joy in a toxic love affair that ends appropriately abruptly, as does the movie.

One-Line Review: Battle Los Angeles (2011), starring Aaron Eckhart

This is a love story to the US Marine Corps with a self-sacrificial lieutenant and a tireless staff sergeant so inspiring that a squad will follow him back into action instead of taking an officer-ordered rest… and there are aliens.