Ron Jacobsohn’s Movie Reviews

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews The Instigators

The Instigators is an underwhelming mix of action/drama, it centers around two brothers, Jack (Matt Damon) and Mike (Casey Affleck), who find themselves pulled into ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Deadpool & Wolverine

This is probably one of the boldest attempts to combine two of Marvel’s most unconventional anti-heroes into a single flick. Unfortunately, Deadpool & Wolverine ends ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Daddio

Sometimes a single cab drive may leave an impact of a lifetime on us, and this is exactly what first-time director, Christy Hall, manages to ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews A Quiet Place: Day One

Now that A Quiet Place is officially a franchise with the release of “Day One” the style of using total silence and frightening sounds continues ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Bad Boys: Ride or Die

In this, the third iteration of the Bad Boys franchise, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are trying to prove to themselves that even though they ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews The Fall Guy

Can you believe there still are TV shows that have not been made into movies??? "The Fall Guy" who ran on ABC in the early ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews The Idea of You

This is probably the flick Amazon Prime has spent the most money to promote for months, the question is if all that money will pay ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Dune Part 2

Dune Part 2 is now almost a year late, the very anticipated release follow-up to the first film of the series that was released in ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Dune

Based on the 1965 cult sci-fi novel by Frank Herbert the storyline chronicles the life of Paul, who was born into great destiny in the ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Ron’s Gone Wrong

This is another incarnation of the difunctional robot who has a heart of gold type of story, from first-time British CGI studio, Locksmith Animation. Locksmith ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews The Last Duel

Ridley Scott's new flick The Last Duel has brought together Matt Damon and Ben Affleck to collaborate on writting the screenplay, for the first time ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews No Time to Die

As Daniel Craig concludes his tenor as the fifth 007 (following in the footsteps of Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Venom: Let There Be Carnage

In the spin-off of to the spin-off of the Spiderman franchise, we see yet another superhero with a reporter alter-ego, who is attempting to reinvent ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Dear Evan Hansen

This was probably one of the first Broadway musicals to tackle the social media frenzy of Gen-Z. It was groundbreaking, breathtaking and, in a way, ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Cry Macho

Cry Macho is a fable about redemption, it’s the journey of an old man, bringing a teen from Mexico City to his estranged American dad ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews The Card Counter

From the writer of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull and director of American Gigolo comes this revenge thriller about an ex-military guy haunted by the ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Cinderella

A modern spin on a classic fairy tale we all know so well, brings the story of a struggling servant who dreams of becoming a ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

As if the Marvel Cinematic Universe wasn't big enough, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings will attempt to corner a market niece where ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Candyman

A classic slasher movie gets a modern day reboot almost three decades after the original Candyman was released. Like the original this incarnation is also ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Reminiscence

We have seen many time machine flicks, yet this one tries to bring a new twist. In Reminiscence, Lisa Joy, aka Mrs. Christopher Nolan, cinematic ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Paw Patrol: The Movie

In an age where first responders and working-class heroes are the focal point in society, an animated first of popular four-legged hero hits the big ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Respect

Respect begins and ends with Aretha singing in church as it chronicles one of America's greatest icons of all times from childhood until the end ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews The Suicide Squad

The Suicide Squad is the do-over of the 2016's mega-hit, Suicide Squad. It is classic comic-book moviemaking, coming from the mind of, sometimes controversial, director, James Gunn, who ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Jungle Cruise

The new Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt joyride, Jungle Cruise, is Disney's attempt to re-create the vibe of Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart in The ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Ford v Ferrari

You know that Oscar season is upon us when you start seeing more and more biopics hitting the big screen. Like every year we discover ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

I am not entirely sure what the writers of this movie wanted to achieve by taking a Sleeping Beauty scenario and giving it a Game ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Joker

People love a great villain, the more demented his actions, the more fascinated they are by him and Joker is hypnotically addicting in that sense ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Hustlers

Would you believe 50-year-old Jennifer Lopez could be a stripper? After a very hyped trailer, Hustlers delivers big time while giving you the unexpected. It ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews It: Chapter Two

After It (Chapter One) became such a mega hit, earning more than $700 million two years ago, bringing back the audiences to Chapter Two, shouldn't ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Angel Has Fallen

Is third time a charm for Gerard Butler as Secret Service agent, Mike Banning, saving the President of the Untied States? After Aaron Eckhart portrayed ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews The Art of Racing in the Rain

Every dog owner has at some point looked into his k-9's eyes and wondered what they were thinking? Hollywood too has had its love affair ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews The Kitchen

The Kitchen is based on a DC Vertigo comic-book miniseries that was published in 2015. Kathy, Ruby, and Claire are forced into a world of ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

In a year where so many franchises are winding down, from The Avengers to Star Wars to X-Men. here comes one that is trying to ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Once Upon A Time in Hollywood

It's hard to believe that 25 years passed since director Quentin Tarantino erupted into all our lives with Pulp Fiction, which like Once Upon a ...

Ron Jacobson Reviews The Lion King

Jon Favreau’s remake of the 1994 animated classic, The Lion King, is nothing less than stunning. From the ecstatic Zulu chant that opens the film ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Spiderman Far From Home

In this the eighth Spider-Man movie, it feels much like the franchise has finally taken a big leap forward. Tom Holland's confidence as Peter Parker ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Annabelle Comes Home

In this creeper we find the Warren's, Ed & Lorraine, who are investigation a sacred glass. Locked away in that church, so she can’t do ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Toy Story 4

It is understandable that when a franchise comes to its fourth installment, it makes fans a bit uncomfortable, as in will it continue to produce ...

Ron Jacobson Reviews Shaft

John Shaft Jr. (aka JJ, aka Shaft Jr.) is an FBI cybersecurity expert, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend's untimely death, he ...

Ron Jacobson Reviews Men in Black International

In this reboot of the franchise, the Men in Black expand to cover the globe, but so have the villains. The original cast of Will ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Dark Phoenix

Just when you thought the X-Men franchise is dead, here comes a new and unexpected chapter in Dark Phoenix, the twelfth installment in the X-Men ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews The Secret Life of Pets 2

Whereas the successful The Secret Live of Pets gave us an inside look of what our pets do when we are not around, the sequel ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Ma

When Octavia Spencer, one of only 11 actresses in the history to win the Critics Choice Awards, Golden Globes, SAG Awards, BAFTA Awards, and the ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Rocketman

Rocketman markets itself as the Elton John biopic, yet if you are looking for a docu-like reenactment of the superstars life, this is not that ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Disney’s Aladdin

I am sure that many of you, like me, did not envision Guy Ritchie, the man who brought us such movies as Lock, Stock and ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Avengers Endgame

The biggest issue of coming out of a movie like The Avengers Endgame is that it raises the bar so high for future franchise movies ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Shazzam!

Shazzam! is definitely not as popular as Superman, Batman, or Wonder Woman when it comes to the DC Comics universe but he is undoubtedly the ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Captain Marvel

The movie follows the story of Carol Danvers, who is destined to become one of the universe's most powerful heroine. Captain Marvel brings the previously ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Vice

When I first heard they’re making a comedy about Dick Cheney, immediately it felt like a beginning of a very bad joke, yet when I ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Mary Poppins Returns

Don’t you think that some classics should receive immunity from being made into sequels? Can anyone in their right mind imagine a sequel to “Gone ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Ben is Back

This movie feels almost ripped from the headlines, a heart wrenching story about a mother's love for her opioid addicted son, desperately trying to help ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Bohemian Rhapsody

The long awaited Fox biopic about Queen frontman Freddy Mercury, Bohemian Rhapsody, is finally here and it is living up to all the hype that has ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews The Sisters Brothers

Upon hearing the title of this movie, The Sisters Brothers, you really can’t start to imagine what this movie is about, however, it becomes clear ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews A Star is Born

This is the third telling of the story of an established musician helping a struggling singer find the limelight, while his own life is in ...

Ron Jacobsohn Review A Simple Favor

It is very seldom that a fascinating movie trailer turns out to be a surprisingly good movie, A Simple Favor, is one of those rare ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Only the Brave

We are in one of the fiercest battles for control of the box office (and the TV ratings) between the superheroes and the real-life heroes ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Dunkirk

This Jonathan Nolan directed pic is nothing short from breathtaking. Nolan was extremely tedious in portraying the story of the evacuation of the British Forces ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Despicable Me 3

Despicable Me 3 is one sequel this summer which will not let you down. It is colorful, imaginative sometimes silly but eventually just plain enjoyable ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Transformers: The Last Knight

Hasbro's Transformers are back for their fifth outing on the big screen. I won't try to explain the storyline because truly it is almost impossible ...

Ron Jacobsohn reviews Disney’s Cars 3

This is the most polished and kid friendly Cars movie of all the trilogy and it also feels like it is tapping a bit more ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews The Mummy

This third reboot of The Mummy for Universal Pictures and a lot is riding on this big money-making machine for the studios being the franchise ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Wonder Woman

With so many flops in recent years, with their DC Comics movies, it is refreshing to see Warner Bros. finally getting it right. Patty Jenkins was ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie

The long-awaited debut of Captain Underpants on the big screen is finally here and although the movie is different from the books, it still manages ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

The fifth installment of the popular Disney franchise felt like it was running on autopilot, it hit all the right marks but it didn’t go ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Baywatch

Most people who will go see the movie adaptation of Baywatch were probably not even alive twenty-five years ago when the TV show made household ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Allied

This is the much anticipated big screen coupling between Brad Pitt and Academy Award Winner, Marion Cotillard, which doesn't disappoint visually but falls flat when it comes to chemistry. Director Robert Zemeckis is a great visual master and Allied ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Disney’s Moana

Disney Animation has produced yet another master piece with the studio’s fifty-sixth animated movie, Moana. This Polynesian mythological story that was totally re-written for this ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Rules Don’t Apply

Following his 15 years absence from the big screen, actor-director-writer, Warren Beatty, is back at age 79 portraying legendary eccentric business mogul, Howard Hughes. Beatty, is already ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them

Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them definitely feels like a first scene from a movie that someone at the studios said about: let's burn ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Doctor Strange

Doctor Strange is the newest addition to the Marvel Universe to hit the big screen. As much as I wanted to follow the story, I ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews DreamWorks’ Trolls

When I took my kids to see Trolls, I was hoping to get a well-deserved nap, but instead, I got a movie that taught kids ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Inferno

This is the third movie based on the Dan Brown bestseller by the same name, following “The Da Vinci Code” and “Angels & Demons,” in ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Keeping Up with the Joneses

The resemblance of this flick to Mr. and Mrs. Smith is uncanny, however the coupling of Don Drapper and Wonderwoman aka Jon Hamm and Gal ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Tim Burton is back after a two-year absence, directing an adaptation to the best-selling novel from 2012, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, which truly ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews The Magnificent Seven

MGM decided to remake the 1960 classic western “The Magnificent Seven” and although it did leave the storyline in the 2016 version identical to the ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Bridget Jones’s Baby

Everyone I talked to about this movie immediately was asking “do we really need another Bridget Jones” fifteen years later… I say what does it ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Clint Eastwood’s Sully

It was just a matter of time that the "Miracle on the Hudson River" story of Captain Sully Sullenberger from two-thousand-and-nine would become a Hollywood ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews A Tale of Love & Darkness

Today, I want to talk to you about a movie, which really left an impact on me. It's called "A Tale of Love and Darkness" ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Pete’s Dragon

I probably was five-years-old when I saw the original "Pete's Dragon" and to this day I remember that song Pete and the dragon sang together ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Jason Bourne

This is the fifth Bourne Identity movie in the franchise and the first starring Matt Damon since 2007, even though he did say back then ...

Ron Jacobsohn Reviews The Secret Lives of Pets

Today I want to talk to you about one of the funniest adult movies… made for kids… The Secret Lives of Pets tries to answer ...