MrGKB

...this movie really deserves nothing in the way of attention beyond being a vehicle for Alex Winter to have fun in heavy make-up. Everything about "Destroy All Neighbors" is pointless, ludicrous, wasteful, and a host of other negative characteristics that are typically assigned to the dregs of cinema in an effort to fulfill posting requirements while sufficiently warning what few readers there will ever be to stay far, far away from even the contemplation of watching the poor thing. I'll leave it at that; you do what you will. I have to add a few more characters to this blurb, and then I am outta...

..."Grey" seemed to me to be one of the few Christian parables I've ever seen that wore no cross on its sleeve. The writer/director is an unknown to me, as are the two actors, yet the whole thing felt like I'd seen and been comfortable with these folks for years. I'll not spoil a thing; two men under pressure react in vastly different ways to arrive at a conclusion that neither one of them likely expected.

Everything is of a piece productionwise;it all serves the story in a straightforward, honest manner. Assured direction yields photography and editing that draws viewers in and holds them close, while the same deft handling of actors draws natural and organic performances from the cast. The script never wears out its welcome, despite a certain degree of unlikelihood. Highly recommended.

....that likely could have been squeezed into a single season of a dozen tight episodes, "TWD:WB" provides backstory for TWDU that will eventually resolve itself in the Rick & Michonne spin-off, "TWD: The Ones Who Live." The story centers on four teenagers on a Wizard of Oz trek across a wasteland of "empties" between their doomed home in Nebraska and a missing father in New York. By and large, it's hit and mostly miss, thanks to a half-hearted, hairbrained script (it's always ultimately the script, isn't it? Yes. Yes, it is.), some questionable casting thanks to that script's mediocre world-building (the ostensible leads show no signs of being raised in an apocalyptic environment, somehow naive innocents in a world of zombie chaos, and not a one of them even vaguely appearing to have been trained to live and survive in such a world), and an overall tone to the storytelling that fails to capture a TWD vibe in any signicant way. Too many cooks, not enough broth. For TWDU completists only. I've been a fan since Day One, but am fairly certain I'll never watch this part of it again.