Ron Jacobsohn’s Movie Reviews

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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" ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...