“Welcome to Marwen” takes a sad but beautiful true tragedy to triumph story and warps it into something else. I am sure that writer/director Zemeckis intended to say something with his reality warp, but he failed.

“Destination Inner Space” is a “Fear the Skies” B movie from 1966 that wasted much of its budget on really boring underwater photography. It also raises the perplexing question of why they would cast a bikini model as a utility diver, and then never put her in a bikini. There is a tolerable television episode hiding in this thing, if you were to carefully edit out half of the film. Of course, I only watched it because it is the source of a tee shirt that I happen to love, and I didn’t expect much more than I got.

“When Harry Met Sally” holds up pretty well. From this remove, Harry is a pretty ordinary guy who grows up a bit over the course of the movie, and Sally is a toxic basket case who becomes almost human over the same span. The legendary fake orgasm scene is actually the heart of the movie, because it is the only place where Sally reveals that she has a playful side that makes her worth redeeming.

“Spider Man: Into the Spiderverse” is a reasonably amusing piece of animation that beats the dead horse of multiple simultaneous universes to a pulp. There are some really good character moments in this movie, but the central idiocy devalues the whole.

“Bumblebee” has a lot of really wonderful character work (by both the human actors and the CGI robot) set against yet another piece of the grand Transformers mythos (yawn). It’s pleasant, mindless fun.

“The Mule” is well made at every level, but pointless. It has nothing to say, and fails to be more than vaguely amusing while saying it. It covers much of the same territory as “Grand Torino” less well.

“Vice” is a decent bio-drama of an evil and secretive man. Where the public record exists, it is reasonably accurate; where the public record is silent, it makes up details that are consistent with the production team’s agenda. Given how scary the truth almost certainly is, this film probably oversells its vision, but it’s still worth watching.

“Mary Poppins Returns” is kind of flat. It is visually impressive, but I went into the movie wondering if a new Mary Poppins movie was necessary, and I left with the question unanswered.

“Escape Room” has high production values and a solid cast. It also has a lame villain, flat characters, and a criminally bad story structure. I went into the movie thinking that the premise would serve well to create an open-ended film series to fill the niche created by “Saw”, and it may do that, but it doesn’t deserve to.

Uncle Hyena