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Brian Costello

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Extra Innings (2020) 3/5 EDIT “Based on a true story, this is an earnest, low-budget indie drama, and the sincerity of those involved in the project is undeniable. Perhaps that's it's biggest problem.” – Common Sense Media Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! (2020) 3/5 EDIT “Scooby-Doo fans will find lots to enjoy, as will their nostalgic parents. Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! is a pretty standard Halloween-themed mystery, but it's a silly and fun way to get into the Halloween spirit.” – Common Sense Media Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna (2020) 4/5 EDIT “This is a bittersweet coming-of-age story that manages to transcend the expected anime battles and action.” – Common Sense Media Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Rev (2020) 1/5 EDIT “This movie manages to pull off the almost impressive trick of not containing even one single original idea in its played-out premise.” – Common Sense Media Nov 12, 2025 Full Review The Burial of Kojo (2018) 100% 4/5 EDIT “This is a lush and beautiful film, filled with dazzling images drawn as much from magical realism as from the setting itself.” – Common Sense Media Nov 12, 2025 Full Review Ghostmates (2016) 1/5 EDIT “This is an unfunny, poorly-made movie that takes a trite premise and turns it into a collection of predictable jokes.” – Common Sense Media Nov 12, 2025 Full Review Alexander IRL (2017) 1/5 EDIT “Apparently, YouTube Red is determined to put out the worst movies they possibly can, and with this one they keep this trend going. This is amateur filmmaking at its absolute worst.” – Common Sense Media Nov 12, 2025 Full Review Meet Joe Black (1998) 48% EDIT “A gimmicky premise is made even worse by iffy acting, hilariously bad dialogue, and a slow pace. ” – Common Sense Media Jan 17, 2024 Full Review The Queenstown Kings (2023) EDIT “This scrappy underdog tale has an interesting setting but a tired premise. ” – Common Sense Media Jan 17, 2024 Full Review A Bronx Tale (1993) 97% EDIT “The decades have been kind to A Bronx Tale; years later, this is a movie that has only gotten better with age.” – Common Sense Media Jan 17, 2024 Full Review Elf Me (2023) EDIT “It's not awful, but it falls short of belonging on the shelf with the other holiday movie mainstays.” – Common Sense Media Jan 16, 2024 Full Review Doi Boy (2023) EDIT “This is a powerful and unsparing portrait of the lives of refugee sex workers in the Chang Mai province of Thailand.” – Common Sense Media Jan 12, 2024 Full Review Crime Diaries: The Celebrity Stylist (2023) 2/5 EDIT “In Crime Diaries: The Celebrity Stylist the killer is all but revealed less than halfway through the first act. ” – Common Sense Media Dec 9, 2023 Full Review Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match (2023) 3/5 EDIT “There's a self-aware humor that makes Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match stand out among all the more adult and older teen-appropriate animated features based on video games and/or multiverses.” – Common Sense Media Dec 9, 2023 Full Review Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen Part Two (2023) 3/5 EDIT “The title itself, Justice League x Rwby: Super Heroes and Huntsmen, Part Two, is a mouthful, and the excessive wordiness speaks to the usual fatal flaw of movies like these: Trying to do too much.” – Common Sense Media Dec 9, 2023 Full Review Pet Sematary: Bloodlines (2023) 23% 2/5 EDIT “As movies based on or inspired by the worlds and characters depicted in Stephen King's vast bibliography, it's by no means the worst, but it's also nowhere near the best.” – Common Sense Media Nov 30, 2023 Full Review Cyberbunker: The Criminal Underworld (2023) 4/5 EDIT “This is an engrossing documentary about cybercriminals who don't think of themselves as criminals and the dangerous and lucrative business they ran from a former NATO bunker in rural Germany.” – Common Sense Media Nov 29, 2023 Full Review Desperado (1995) 71% 4/5 EDIT “So much of the humor and style comes from over-the-top exaggeration in the violence, characters, and conflicts.” – Common Sense Media Nov 9, 2023 Full Review Overhaul (2023) 2/5 EDIT “This is an unremarkable truck racing movie that is both, um, fast and furious.” – Common Sense Media Oct 11, 2023 Full Review Totally Killer (2023) 85% 3/5 EDIT “Totally Killer, while not as gory or raunchy as many of the ‘80s teen horror movies it draws upon for inspiration, nonetheless evokes a 1980s teen world of bullying, binge drinking, pot brownies, and oral sex.” – Common Sense Media Oct 11, 2023 Full Review The Black Book (2023) 4/5 EDIT “There are some obvious nods to the sensibilities of other directors who make these kinds of movies. And yet, the story takes on complexities not often seen in action-thrillers.” – Common Sense Media Oct 5, 2023 Full Review Freestyle (2023) 2/5 EDIT “Fast dialogue laced with profanities, gratuitous sex, over-the-top violence, psychotic bad guys, and so on. The movie doesn't really break out into anything new from this well-trodden genre. ” – Common Sense Media Oct 5, 2023 Full Review A Day and a Half (2023) 83% 4/5 EDIT “But, like so much about A Day and a Half, the story and characters defy expectations, and each revelation to the characters and the story is as satisfying as it is entertaining, showing that action movies really don't have to be so typically mindless.” – Common Sense Media Sep 6, 2023 Full Review Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar (2023) 100% 3/5 EDIT “The movie is full of silly sight gags that are pretty over the top. The exaggeration isn't so much mockery as it is a celebration of heavy metal culture, for all its bombast and fantasy elements.” – Common Sense Media Sep 6, 2023 Full Review Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen Part One (2023) 3/5 EDIT “Yes, the wordy Justice League X RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen Part One does deliver on its implied promise of bringing two beloved franchises together, but the whole thing feels a little forced. ” – Common Sense Media Sep 6, 2023 Full Review
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