The Seattle Times

Wilde and Hoffman’s delightful on-screen chemistry adds fizz. If the film’s tone is somewhat garbled, it’s at least generously so, both in literal cartoonishness (animated boobs make an appearance) and over-the-top archetypal cliché.

It’s perhaps not his finest outing — the story seems to lose its way a bit in the final act — but even second-rate Kore-eda is still a fascinating journey.

Once the movie finally gets moving, it’s a gloriously thrilling time.

The Dink is the sort of loosely tossed-together comedy in which you suspect the actors are ad-libbing half of their lines, but it works. The cast is full of funny people in supporting roles, popping up like bouncing tennis balls.

Tales like Heartstopper don’t just deliver a feel-good, fizzy love story (though it certainly does that), they remind us to value all our relationships while we have them — they can change so fast. But if you’re lucky, or wise, or both, that change can be for the better, and the people you know can surprise you, if you let them. And what better way is there to spend forever?

If you lean back and surrender yourself to this “Odyssey,” it’s a remarkable journey, and Damon’s performance finds some welcome transcendence at the end.

Although being in essence the second bite at the apple for this story, with the animated version being superior in terms of its visuals and the vocal performance of Auliʻi Cravalho as Moana holding the edge over Lagaʻaia, the picture is very satisfying.

Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass is as unwieldy as its title, but it definitely brings laughter — and that, in any season, is a gift.

You might not want to invite any of this quartet over to your own apartment, but they’re good company on screen.

Frequently very funny and often insightful as it zooms through what amounts to a crash course in the early days of Hollywood moviemaking, this “Minions” is a compact delight (at just 90 minutes). It brings the happy to this holiday. Enjoy.