10 best movies of the year.Is it OK for lauded directors to spend $100 million of their own fortune on a laughable ego trip?
Absolutely. It’s also fine for them to fill a gold-plated swimming pool with Skittles. But that doesn’t mean critics have to like or even respect it — especially when they’re charging the public to sit through their self-indulgent twaddle.
Coppola’s long-awaited film turned out to be horribly written, ugly, preachy rubbish. Dakota’s career went south with this Sony-Marvel monstrosity about a stressed-out paramedic who develops psychic powers thanks to rainforest arachnid venom.
One of the now infamously leaden lines handed to Dakota Johnson’s Cassandra Webb? “He was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died!”Cate Blanchett has gone from “Tar” to tarred and feathered for this rancid video game adaptation hardly anybody knows exists.
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