The premise sounds simple, but this is a very cinematic auteur’s picture. It is remarkable.

It is a quiet, perceptive, movie, concerned with what lays underneath the anger, and filled with pain.

It is a good movie, that never forces its point-of-view on the audience, with a couple of great performances.

From a production and filmmaking standpoint, this may very well be the best movie of the year.

It is an enjoyable movie with a fantastic starring performance from Timothée Chalamet.

It is a basic story with little to say about its subject matter. It goes through its paces dutifully and without a lot of excitement.

This is a sequel that pales in comparison to the original simply because we’ve already seen the original.

The movie is well-made, yet unimaginative. It is a basic family-friendly spectacular in time for the holidays.

It is enjoyable enough in its own right, with solid performances and satisfying brutality. It delivers basically what it needed to.

Subtlety is a myth in this movie. The message is valuable; the execution is definitely not.