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I'm not a big fan of anime, but this is my favorite. It may be slow towards the middle, but in the end it's worth it.

Tomb Raider is based off of the classic video games and stars Alicia Vikander as the new Lara Croft after Angelina Jolie left. In this Tomb Raider adaptation Lara Croft gets a secret message from her dad believing him to be dead. She follows his research towards an island where she is captured and must escape the island. Now personally I enjoyed Angelina's performance as Lara Croft so hearing Alicia Vikander as the new Lara Croft I was skeptical, but she pulled it off. I played the Tomb Raider game and Alicia Vikander looks like her from the video game. The first twenty minutes of the movie kept me really interested and maybe there was a silver lining where movies based off of video games aren't awful. And until she reaches the island that's where things got a little slow. They had everything they needed from elements of the video game to a great performance, but it was lacking in script. Giving what Alicia Vikander was working with I think they could've added more to her character than just having it be your typical Indiana Jones movie. Another great performance is Walton Groggins as the villain. Walton Groggins is one of those actors where the movie can be really bad, but somehow he can pull it off and make the movie a little bit better. Which he is a good actor, I just think he needs to do a movie where he can get himself out there. So overall it was entertaining for a video game movie and it was a nice attempt, but we still haven't been able to break the curse.

I had the whole theatre to myself. So that's something. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri stars Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, and Frances McDormand, which is also directed by Martin McDonagh. This is about a woman who decides to post an advertising to let everybody know that her daughter was raped and murdered. I wanted to see this movie for two reasons: One: I like the work of Martin McDonagh, and Sam Rockwell, who I think is an underrated actor. And I watched this movie and it was different from the movies that Martin McDonagh has done in the past like In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths. And those movies had humor as well as a great drama, but this one it doesn't have that much humor to it. There is a little bit of humor, but not much as his other works and I miss that and I wanted to see more of that. Now that isn't to say that this isn't a bad movie. There were moments that were fun to watch and other times where do we need that scene to explain everything. Sam Rockwell and Frances McDormand carry the movie for sure. I think she's a good actress and I haven't seen her in anything in a long time so it was good to see in her in the spotlight. Sam Rockwell is the comedy relief in the movie and the scenes that he's in are fun to watch. You start to hate this character because he's a violent psychopath but later on you start to like him and realize he isn't a bad person. Overall, this was an average movie with good actors, a solid script, and a fun time to watch every now and again.