Not much going on here, good or bad.  

Even omitting how masterfully John Carpenter would later adapt the same short story—Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell—this movie is really just sort of a generic creature feature. Whereas the novella has the creature shape shifting into of the crew like in Carpenter’s film, this movie opts to make it a vampiric plant monster that’s out for blood. Literally. 

While I’m sympathetic to the technical (and cultural) restraints that…

This movie has the exact feel of seeing an old friend for the first time in a while — a little older, a little slower but nothing’s really changed in spirit 

It captures the feel of the show flawlessly despite being off the air for over a decade. The lead actors all slip right back into their roles flawlessly.  Tony Shalhoub especially does a great job returning to Adrian Monk 

In a lot of ways this is just a double…

Why would the studio stand behind someone as problematic as Ezra Miller when the finished product is this bad? Absolutely nothing about this movie works 

- Phoned in performances

- Poorly-done special effects

- Limp plot bordering on incomprehensible 

- Half-baked, unearned emotional beats. I an the world’s biggest mark for sad mom stories and this one left me cold 

- Immoral, ghoulish CGI recreations of dead (and some living) actors solely for the sake of applause that, in my…