Jesse Hassenger's posts

Jesse Hassenger

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Contributor, The A.V. Club. I also write fiction, edit textbooks, and help run SportsAlcohol.com, a pop culture blog and podcast. Star Wars prequels forever!

Jesse Hassenger's posts

Jesse Hassenger's posts

The best films of 2020 so far

Dave Bautista is another bruiser-turned-babysitter in the flimsy and long-delayed My Spy

Will Ferrell trades sports for pop songs in Netflix’s funny, loopy Eurovision

Pixar finally laid an egg with The Good Dinosaur, but its failures are interesting

The King Of Staten Island reveals the limitations of the Judd Apatow star vehicle

The Last Days Of American Crime is a bloated sci-fi heist movie from the director of two Takens

New films from Spike Lee, Judd Apatow, and, uh, Kevin James are coming this June

New Queer Cinema pioneer Gregg Araki gave Joseph Gordon-Levitt one of his best roles

Guy Ritchie couldn’t make a franchise out of King Arthur, but his attempt is a fun one-off

Dakota Johnson wants to make records in the nice but oblivious The High Note

Lifelong friends grow apart in the quiet, time-skipping Fourteen

Tim Burton and Johnny Depp teamed up again for the loopy, fun flop Dark Shadows

Scarlett Johansson got down to earth in the bachelorette farce Rough Night

Braveheart gets another sort-of sequel with the meager Robert The Bruce

Mos Def played straight man to Jack Black in the funny, moving Be Kind Rewind

A young Laura Dern brings a haunting Joyce Carol Oates story to life

Trolls World Tour is a shameless DreamWorks dance party you can attend from your couch

The Mouse House fails to branch out with two new Disney+ original movies

Tomorrow Never Dies is an underrated adventure for Pierce Brosnan’s underrated Bond

The Ed Helms cop comedy Coffee & Kareem is laziness masquerading as irreverence