July movies

I saw these movies in July:

Shortcomings (2023) five stars. Randall Park is humorous and has done a great job in this movie. Adrian Tomine, the creator of the original cartoon, sat in the theater when Ben announced the closing of it. This is a small personal reassurance that “it's OK.”

She Came to Me (2023) four stars.

War of the Worlds (2025) four stars. Actually maybe five, because of its innovative storytelling by showing everything on a computer screen. Searching (2018) has tried this idea earlier. But telling a story about alien invasion on the screens of computers and smartphones is way more challenging. Quite a few technical details are clearly off. It's impossible to program a malware that quickly. It's also weird to try to upload a Windows executable to a “data center” using a flash drive. But these are forgivable if we can accept a carbon-and-silicon-based hybrid lifeform with badly designed long legs.