One Sentence Media Reviews
I really wanted to like this well-researched history of the post 9/11 reconstruction effort, but it’s just too poorly written to be worth the effort, with everything from confusing organization of timelines to ambiguous sentence construction hindering what is already a very dry (albeit important and fascinating) topic.
bland and predictable.
Michael Lewis has since gone on to much wider fame but his early tell-most account of his time at Salomon Brothers in the mid eighties succeeds in providing a nice deep look at exactly that, which will appeal if that’s the kind of thing you’re into.
lesser known tumblr-darling animated adventure movie is trite and predictable but also pretty to look at and fun to talk about.
The Spike Lee version may be better art, but this autobiography is a crucial, vital vision into the life of a truly unique human, and quite inspiring.
My overall one sentence media review of the entire 150 hour endeavor that is this series (altho of course it has spawned a dozen other ancillary novels at this point) is that if you have the time and patience for a long series of books where you never really know what the plot is in any useful sense, but an endless succession of characters have deep, extended, metaphorically minded conversations about it, all interspersed fairly frequently with devastating violence, then they will reward you deeply, but if not, you'd have a way better time re-reading Brandon Sanderson.
The last two books of Erikson’s Malazan Book of the Fallen series share some of the same faults of the books before them (too many rapid swaps in perspective, an unnecessary amount of coyness and obfuscation masquerading as scene-setting style, so many different types of fantasy powers flying around that the whole thing feels like Calvinball), but you have to hand it to Erikson that he writes well, weaves a wonderful tale, is a joy to read, and has his fair share of impactful, inspirational moments.
I love a taut dramatization of angry business bros yelling at goofy tech nerds.
I watched this annoying romcom because it was written by Natasha Lyonne but it's still an annoying romcom and therefore not for me and even if it is sort of well written the second half is terrible and annoying, just like most movies in the genre.
This is a classic Larson history novel in that it's a very easy approachable read, and it's a useful and interesting historical perspective in that it takes a look at a different side of Churchill, going back to lots of primary sources - a tip of the hat to Larson for a job deftly done.
Although this Agatha Christie story is a bit formulaic and long-winded at times, the casting and acting is great and the overall vibe is delightful - better than the remake.