Movie reviews

Metro... In Dino follows so many relationships and moving parts that its most compelling material repeatedly disappears into the surrounding clutter. Ali Fazal and Fatima Sana Shaikh provide the subplot I most wanted the movie to trust, but the larger ensemble keeps meandering through lives of widely varying interest, with abortion returning as a plot device often enough to become distracting rather than illuminating. Some threads work, others do not and the script never quite organizes them into a satisfying whole. The movie was worth my time; it simply spent too much of that time away from its best people.

Everything’s Going to Be Great tries to carry too many ideas, relationships and emotional turns through too little screen time, leaving a script whose priorities I never understood. The younger brother is written with such persistent unpleasantness that I struggle to believe the filmmakers intended the audience to dislike him this completely, yet nothing meaningfully corrects that impression. A few laughs and scattered worthwhile moments keep the movie from becoming a total loss. It is watchable, but overstuffed storytelling turns nearly every promising element into something hurried or underdeveloped.