Well, at least "The Avengers" had a strong finale this year.
Monday, December 23, 2019
"Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker" review
Well, at least "The Avengers" had a strong finale this year.
Thursday, December 19, 2019
Friday, December 13, 2019
Lightning Round: The Spectrum of Artistic Worth
Friday, November 22, 2019
Lightning Round: Thanksgiving Family Bonding
Kids and adults can have a reason to hit the cinemas this coming holiday week.
Friday, November 15, 2019
Saturday, November 9, 2019
Friday, November 8, 2019
"Terminator: Dark Fate" review
I know why some will cry to see this franchise go, though it is something I will never do.
Friday, November 1, 2019
Monday, October 28, 2019
"Parasite" review
A nice reminder that we can either die in the gutter or succeed hard enough to become dumb.
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Monday, September 30, 2019
Friday, August 30, 2019
Lightning Round: Average Endings to a Savage Summer time
This August ain't exactly blowing Oscar season out of the water but it's better than June and July.
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
"Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" review
The compelling tale of an actor's self worth...and some other stuff.
Monday, July 22, 2019
Thursday, July 18, 2019
Too Many Spider-Men: Ranking Spider-Man Cinema from Best to Worst (Part 2)
Which 4 movies stand out from the "Spider-Man" clan?
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Too Many Spider-Men: Ranking Spider-Man Cinema from Best to Worst (Part 1)
Who crawls to the top of the pile?
Monday, July 15, 2019
Thursday, July 4, 2019
Monday, July 1, 2019
Monday, June 24, 2019
Monday, June 17, 2019
"Men in Black: International"
Recognizable only as deja vu and dismissed just as quickly; their words, not mine.
Sunday, June 9, 2019
Lightning Round: Legacy and Complications
One of these is still standing better than they ever did. Hint: It's not the "X-Men" movie.
Monday, June 3, 2019
Lightning Round: The Victims of Memorial Day
Because nothing says faith like getting thrown out against a Disney tentpole release.
Friday, May 31, 2019
"Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)" review
You don't need nature to point out the folly of man in this movie.
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Monday, May 13, 2019
Wading through murky waters: A Crit Hit Update
I've spent the last year putting forth a genuine effort to be more transparent about the nature of my writing's progress, the state of my well being, and the middle ground that I must walk to maintain the two.
In order to dedicate to that transparency, I've had to spend the last few months asking some fairly hard questions to myself about how to progress with both my life and my craft and while I'm far from having all of the answers, I can't stay silent about the state of the blog forever, especially as Summer movie season is beginning to kick into full gear.
First things first: reviews will never stop coming. I don't know if I'll always hit my target deadlines for them but they are going to continue landing as long as I have sensory receptors with which to consume art.
Secondly; regarding the current status of my works in progress, they're current status, beyond seeing release this year, is up in the air.
I've rewritten my editorial piece on "The Last Jedi" almost 3 times and just don't like how it's coming out and my finale for ""Younger and Wiser" has evolved into something more experimental.
Much of this is stemming from the general sense of dissatisfaction that I currently have with the blog. Similarly to Crapshoot, I started many of these writing projects as a means of exposing myself to more and more content and how that content represents the trends of audiences receiving it as well as the potential thinking behind the entertainment industry as to what they produce and try to sell.
The notion was nice for a time, back when I was first trying to stretch my legs as a professional reviewer; watch more, learn more, broaden your horizons and develop your filter in the process.
Having said that, its been almost 5 years since I've relaunched the blog, 7 years since I producing regularly scheduled content for different publications, and nearly 8 since I started the blog all together.
While I'm far from being the most knowledgeable expert on anything, I am very far from the novice that I started out as and making better content means holding myself to a higher standard and adapting to my own changes as well as those of the world around me.
Because of all of this, Crit Hit has been in a bit of an identity crisis, as I've struggled to churn out content I have mixed feelings over that doesn't wholly represent me, my talent, or a style I want to particularly adhere to anymore.
That's going to change.
Crit Hit has been in desperate of an overhaul for a while now but I'm happy to make that necessary change a reality, no matter how much work it takes in an effort to balance my passions with my life beyond writing as well as mental health issues I've alluded to previously.
For this reason, the usual variety of content I try to keep prominent upon the site, such as the aforementioned editorials and writing series', has to take a back seat while I work to get a proper plan into place. This is why content I've struggled to push out for months has been so substantially delayed and was partially why I've been reluctant to announce anything new. The difficulties of this task were nothing to scoff at in and of themselves but were recently compounded with outside developments.
I recently made the decision to leave my previous day job; a difficult and emotional decision that I had been grappling with for at least a year up to this point.
While I'm set to start a new career this week in a far more promising position, leaving my status quo on less than ideal terms to uproot and tackle something very different from what I've known my entire professional life has left me emotionally ping-ponging for the last few weeks pretty harshly.
I have a lot of pieces of my life that I need to put back together this summer and because of that and the blog's substantially ill-defined state of being, I can't promise much outside of the usual weekly movie reviews and the possible offbeat entry that may or may not suggest the stylings of future content.
That said, I have no desire to ever stop. A lot of change will be coming and as always, I appreciate my readership for sticking with me through it all.
In order to dedicate to that transparency, I've had to spend the last few months asking some fairly hard questions to myself about how to progress with both my life and my craft and while I'm far from having all of the answers, I can't stay silent about the state of the blog forever, especially as Summer movie season is beginning to kick into full gear.
First things first: reviews will never stop coming. I don't know if I'll always hit my target deadlines for them but they are going to continue landing as long as I have sensory receptors with which to consume art.
Secondly; regarding the current status of my works in progress, they're current status, beyond seeing release this year, is up in the air.
I've rewritten my editorial piece on "The Last Jedi" almost 3 times and just don't like how it's coming out and my finale for ""Younger and Wiser" has evolved into something more experimental.
Much of this is stemming from the general sense of dissatisfaction that I currently have with the blog. Similarly to Crapshoot, I started many of these writing projects as a means of exposing myself to more and more content and how that content represents the trends of audiences receiving it as well as the potential thinking behind the entertainment industry as to what they produce and try to sell.
The notion was nice for a time, back when I was first trying to stretch my legs as a professional reviewer; watch more, learn more, broaden your horizons and develop your filter in the process.
Having said that, its been almost 5 years since I've relaunched the blog, 7 years since I producing regularly scheduled content for different publications, and nearly 8 since I started the blog all together.
While I'm far from being the most knowledgeable expert on anything, I am very far from the novice that I started out as and making better content means holding myself to a higher standard and adapting to my own changes as well as those of the world around me.
Because of all of this, Crit Hit has been in a bit of an identity crisis, as I've struggled to churn out content I have mixed feelings over that doesn't wholly represent me, my talent, or a style I want to particularly adhere to anymore.
That's going to change.
Crit Hit has been in desperate of an overhaul for a while now but I'm happy to make that necessary change a reality, no matter how much work it takes in an effort to balance my passions with my life beyond writing as well as mental health issues I've alluded to previously.
For this reason, the usual variety of content I try to keep prominent upon the site, such as the aforementioned editorials and writing series', has to take a back seat while I work to get a proper plan into place. This is why content I've struggled to push out for months has been so substantially delayed and was partially why I've been reluctant to announce anything new. The difficulties of this task were nothing to scoff at in and of themselves but were recently compounded with outside developments.
I recently made the decision to leave my previous day job; a difficult and emotional decision that I had been grappling with for at least a year up to this point.
While I'm set to start a new career this week in a far more promising position, leaving my status quo on less than ideal terms to uproot and tackle something very different from what I've known my entire professional life has left me emotionally ping-ponging for the last few weeks pretty harshly.
I have a lot of pieces of my life that I need to put back together this summer and because of that and the blog's substantially ill-defined state of being, I can't promise much outside of the usual weekly movie reviews and the possible offbeat entry that may or may not suggest the stylings of future content.
That said, I have no desire to ever stop. A lot of change will be coming and as always, I appreciate my readership for sticking with me through it all.
Saturday, May 11, 2019
"Detective Pikachu" review
Friday, April 26, 2019
"Avengers: Endgame" review
What really needs to be said about the Marvel Cinematic Universe and its triumph at this point?
Friday, April 12, 2019
Monday, April 8, 2019
Friday, March 29, 2019
Monday, March 25, 2019
Friday, March 22, 2019
Friday, March 15, 2019
Friday, March 8, 2019
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
The Last Crapshoot: All Good Things
And so I say goodbye to a nother year’s bad movies and a
series that has accompanied me for 8 years.
Monday, March 4, 2019
The Last Crapshoot: Everything I know is Wong
One of those moments when bad movies make you question basic truths of your world.
Friday, March 1, 2019
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
"Fighting With My Family" review
How many movies can you watch where a group of misfit Wrestling wannabes teach a blind kid how to wrestle?
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Friday, February 15, 2019
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
"Alita: Battle Angel" review
I hope James Cameron thanked Robert Rodriguez and Rosa Salazar profusely for saving this.
Monday, February 11, 2019
"What Men Want" review
I'm gonna be frank; I really don't know how I managed to get 400 words out of this one.
Friday, February 8, 2019
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
The Last Crapshoot: Giving Due to What's Cataloged
Time to dive into what I have seen before exposure to the bullets I dodged.
Monday, February 4, 2019
"Velvet Buzzsaw" review
I'd like anyone calling me a shill to take note of how many movies I like that eviscerate the art of criticism.
Friday, February 1, 2019
"Miss Bala" review
Between late Oscar contenders, surprises and previews for February releases, I suppose January had to crash eventually.
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
"The Kid Who Would Be King" review
How the hell did this end up the first great King Arthur movie in almost 3 decades?!