At the Movies: Film critic reviews 'A Man Called Otto,' 'The Pale Blue Eye'

average showers return by Thursday. Now 2 new movies, Michael Coats here to review those. We have a man called Otto Tom Hanks and the Pale Blue Eyes with Kristen Bell. Let’s talk about a man called Otto this premiere today at movie theaters. Stars Tom Hanks. He recently retired with or lives in a small little community in Pittsburgh where he sees himself as has to kind of keep the neighborhood up. He’s keep neighborhood clean needs just a curmudgeon. He’s pretty much mean everybody calls and Lily Cole people. It’s their faces and you just not a particularly

likable across the street at the being in the film moves in a young Mexican family with 2 little kids and the the is pregnant sort of just barrel into his life. And there’s some darker to this film in that it’s the Tom Hanks character wants to end his life wife had recently passed. And as the story unfolds, we learn more about how the character he plays came to be curmudgeon and misanthrope. And we we see flashbacks when he was young man played actually buy his is based on you are. My favorite all-time foreign films that

came out in 2016, which I think review on the show called a man called Ove E this one doesn’t quite have the edge of

the Swedish film, but it’s still an enjoyable movie that gets very syrupy at times and emotionally manipulative, that you just, you know, that you can just feel that trying to make you cry here. This is the part in the end. Sometimes it It’s nice to see Tom Hanks play against the type of America’s dad here. He just being misanthrope. So is enjoyable to see him really stretch his talents. I I like

this again, a little little cheesy little all, a given an 8 out of 10. So it’s a rate of P probably Pg 13. So it’s not about not too bad. The next movie talk about is called the Pale This premiere today on Netflix stars Christian Bale set in 18, 30 Christian Bale plays a detective. He’s called to West Point to investigate a gruesome murder of a cadet. The the officials, they’re worried that if it gets out the be a scandal and then but in the middle of night to not only was but could get murdered,

but somebody stole his heart. So that good night to at least see even more problems. Well, Bales characters having problem solving the case. So he teams up with another cadet to help them solve the murder. Who just happens to be a young Edgar Allan the the world with the American poet and writer. We all now know this movie has various twists and turns as Christian Bales on Raven exact a there’s some call back. If you read some of this stuff to this, of course, is to completely fictionalized version of it. Robert Duvall Lucy Billion Anderson

round out the cast. You know, some of these movies looks very OK, I mean, this is I guess it’s kind going toward this is a bit of a mediocre movie kind lingers on for a while. There’s a big twist at the end, which is someone through the whole movie until you get to it. So this is the immediate but film, I give it a 7 out of 10 I thought was looking all I didn’t see Robert Duvall. We need the things you mentioned him in light. You really got here a look at ball Quite we’re

it’s all right to. You know, if you like the actors and you like Edgar Allan Poe may be watching. I do what I do like a period piece is yeah, it very, really feel like you’re in 18, 30 cold, New England. There’s no doubt about that