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Joey Morona

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Life and culture reporter at cleveland.com/The Plain Dealer

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The Electric State (2025) 15% “If "The Electric State" is a misfire (it is), at least it's an interesting one.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Mar 11, 2025 Full Review Captain America: Brave New World (2025) 48% “'Captain America: Brave New World' is like a Mad Libs where all the answers are wrong.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Feb 12, 2025 Full Review Mufasa: The Lion King (2024) 56% “Nobody, except perhaps Disney shareholders, asked for this prequel. Still, director Barry Jenkins has crafted something unexpectedly meaningful: a film that earns its place in... wait for it... the Circle of Life.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Dec 17, 2024 Full Review Wicked (2024) 87% “If you can come to terms with the fact that it's an incomplete story, the joy of experiencing this grand cinematic spectacle is... wait for it... unlimited.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Nov 19, 2024 Full Review Gladiator II (2024) 70% “In such a spectacle, corny dialogue, campy performances, ridiculous scenarios and liberties with historical fact aren’t bugs, they’re features. ” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Nov 18, 2024 Full Review Here (2024) 37% “High-concept, yet relatable; manipulative and deeply moving, "Here" will drive you mad and bring you to tears. ” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Oct 30, 2024 Full Review Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) 75% “The "long-awaited" sequel to "Beetlejuice" is nothing more than a series of forced memory pops designed to conjure up feelings of nostalgia. But what happens when you realize the original may not have been as good as you remember? ” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Sep 4, 2024 Full Review Alien: Romulus (2024) 80% “The scariest Alien movie in decades: a chaotic, no-holds-barred ride that won’t make you smarter but might keep you up at night.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Aug 14, 2024 Full Review Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) 78% “Deadpool & Wolverine is an absolute blast: an action-packed, hilarious, heartfelt and inventive love letter to Marvel fans 25+ years in the making. ” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Jul 23, 2024 Full Review Twisters (2024) 75% “'Twisters' generally goes down smoothly thanks in large part to Glen Powell, the reigning 'Rizz King of Hollywood.'” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Jul 17, 2024 Full Review Inside Out 2 (2024) 91% “Though not as personal or interesting as Turning Red, Pixar's latest is still a smart, entertaining and engaging coming-of-age story. ” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Jun 12, 2024 Full Review Challengers (2024) 88% “Subversive, provocative and playful, Challengers is ultimately undermined by a bonkers ending.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Apr 24, 2024 Full Review Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) 42% “'Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire' is dragged down by its obsession with the past. If the franchise is to continue, its caretakers could learn something from another 'Frozen' and let it go.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Mar 20, 2024 Full Review Drive-Away Dolls (2024) 63% “Weird, queer and unapologetically unserious, Drive-Away Dolls is disposable and inexplicable fun. ” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Feb 21, 2024 Full Review Dune: Part Two (2024) 92% “I could watch Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya stare into each other’s deep blue eyes all day.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Feb 21, 2024 Full Review Bob Marley: One Love (2024) 43% “Seems more interested in deifying its subject than going any deeper than a surface-level examination of the man behind the music.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Feb 13, 2024 Full Review Argylle (2024) 33% “No, Taylor Swift did not write the source material for "Argylle." That much becomes obvious fairly quickly as Swift has never written anything as unserious and ridiculous as this. ” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Jan 31, 2024 Full Review Mean Girls (2024) 69% “Two decades after the original came out, in a world where everybody is too online, the cautionary tale of Mean Girls is more timely than ever. And now you can dance to it.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Jan 10, 2024 Full Review American Fiction (2023) 93% “American Fiction takes great pleasure in making fun of the kind of awards bait Hollywood routinely puts out. The fact that the film turns out to be exactly that isn’t just ironic. It’s brilliant. ” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Jan 9, 2024 Full Review The Color Purple (2023) 81% “Melodramatic, hopeful and richly entertaining, the new The Color Purple is epic filmmaking. It’s the movie you remember seeing in 1985, but also one that feels brand new.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Dec 21, 2023 Full Review Poor Things (2023) 93% “Poor Things is a singular experience. Powered by the intoxicating and fearless Emma Stone, the film is full of life: dark, funny, curious, whimsical, weird -- and wildly libidinous.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Dec 19, 2023 Full Review Wonka (2023) 82% “Wonka's message is old-fashioned and somewhat corny. But in an extraordinary film like this one, it goes down smooth like chocolate. ” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Dec 13, 2023 Full Review Maestro (2023) 78% “Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic is a stylish and intimate portrait of a complicated love story.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Dec 6, 2023 Full Review The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) 64% “Like the Hunger Games themselves, the film isn’t so much entertainment as it is an exercise in survival.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Nov 15, 2023 Full Review Next Goal Wins (2023) 46% “The latest from director Taika Waititi is at times an incoherent, hastily produced mess. Yet, the movie’s charms are hard to resist.” – Cleveland Plain Dealer Nov 14, 2023 Full Review
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