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3 days ago · By Owen Gleiberman. Courtesy of Netfllix © 2024. Nostalgia, when it comes to reviving an old movie series, can be axiomatic. Every so often you see a genuine great piece of nostalgia — like...
3 days ago · Variety's Owen Gleiberman suggested the film "might tickle your nostalgia bone", but added: "Of course, the difference between then and now is that in the 40 years since Beverly Hills Cop, there ...
3 days ago · Variety's Owen Gleiberman argued that being overly reliant on nostalgia in Hollywood can be "axiomatic", it can sometimes work and other times turn out terrible. Of where Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F stood, the critic wrote that it is "plotted like a generic police-corruption thriller, lit with cruddy efficiency, pausing every 10 minutes or so for a 'light' moment".
2 days ago · As my colleague Owen Gleiberman noted in a column about the film, this pacing could work in a television series, but for a film to have so much homework without getting to the good stuff is a fatal flaw.
3 days ago · Owen Gleiberman of Variety, meanwhile, also felt that Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F leans far too heavily on what has come before.
2 days ago · “It’s a movie made with genuine mood and skill and flavor,” Variety chief film critic Owen Gleiberman wrote in his review, which examines the film as an homage to the 1974 classic “The ...
3 days ago · Owen Gleiberman, writing for Entertainment Weekly, said of the film's unremittingly unsettling tone that director Brad Anderson, who was a newcomer to horror films, "seems to be bending over backward to stretch his wings."
