Big Al Reviews

Movie reviews and more by Albert DeSantis

  • Murder on the Orient Express (’17 review)

    Murder on the Orient Express (’17 review)

    4 outta 5 Murder on the Orient Express is a big throwback to big stars in a big movie with lots of big acting and big twists and big monologues.   Directed and starring Kenneth Branagh, it has the pace of many of his movies as it opens strong, gets pretty chatty in the middle, and

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  • A Haunting in Venice

    A Haunting in Venice

    3 outta 5 A Haunting in Venice is the third installment in Kenneth Branagh’s directing and starring series as Hercule Poirot, after Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile. The star wattage is decreased considerably each installment; first movie cast is absolutely stacked and by the third not so much. This is

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  • You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah

    You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah

    4 outta 5 You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah is another of Adam Sandler’s various Netflix movies, but he isn’t the star, his kids are. There has been a lot of discourse online about Nepo Babies in cinema, and while having Sandler’s family in a movie he produced isn’t a selling point,

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