Three buzzy titles get added to this weekend’s movie roster, but are they worth watching? Movie critic Richard Roeper breaks it down.
“Disclosure Day” (in theaters)
Steven Spielberg once again reminds us of why he’s been one of the greatest influences of the last half-century. The framework is built on a cybersecurity whistleblower (Josh O’Connor) and a Kansas City-based TV meteorologist (Emily Blunt) who hold the keys to proving the United States has been covering up the presence of aliens among us for nearly 80 years. Still, don’t expect a special effects-laden adventure that eschews character development for CIG thrills; the stunts here are literally grounded in most cases, and the back stories about the main characters deal with childhood trauma, troubled relationships and found families. Emily Blunt deserves an Oscar nomination for her empathetic portrayal of a woman who is suddenly bestowed with mysterious and powerful gifts, whether she wants them or not.
“Scary Movie” (in theaters)
A little inside baseball for you about my life as a critic: About 95% of the time, I’m given the privilege of seeing films and TV series in advance, so I can tell you guys what’s worth seeing and what you should avoid before the official release of the material. Once in a while, though, a project will not be made available for critics—and after I saw “Scary Movie” at a public screening, I understood why. Yes, it’s a box office smash, earning more than $100 million combined domestically and internationally, but I found it to be a surprisingly uninspired and dated satire that riffs on old jokes and quickly grows tiresome. Team Wayans relies on a steady stream of visual bits and gross-out gags to lampoon “Scream,” “Weapons,” “Sinners” and “Ma,” among others, but it feels like we’re stuck in a time warp, watching a dusty comedy from 2002.
“Office Romance” (on Netflix)
Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein (who also co-wrote) in a workplace romance. “Office Romance” is an astonishingly tone-deaf, simplistic and gratuitously raunchy misfire that seems to exist in a parallel universe that has little connection to modern-day office life, real-world romances–or the way people actually talk in real life. Lopez is the work-obsessed CEO of an airline with a strict anti-fraternization policy, while Goldstein is the company’s new in-house attorney. When they meet, sparks fly–but of course, it’s forbidden love. What to do? The clunky script goes for jokes in all the wrong places and ends on a series of tropes we’ve seen in dozens of better films. Adding insult to injury, the closing credits scene is an absolute horror show of cheap jokes.
Richard Roeper has reviewed films and TV series for more than 25 years, most notably with the Chicago Sun-Times and on the nationally syndicated “Ebert & Roeper.” Roeper is an entertainment and culture contributor to NBC 5 Chicago. He is the host of the globally popular “The Movie of Your Life” podcast, and he writes reviews for RogerEbert.com.
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