Only Vittorio Storaro's cinematography salvages the guilt-deflecting storytelling nonsense of Woody Allen's Wonder Wheel (pictured). The potential for a resonant tale about toxic mas-cow-linity is lost in goofy slapstick in the animated Ferdinand.
In this week's feature reviews, Rian Johnson crafts a blockbuster examination of why we fight in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and the fanciful fable in Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water falls victim to its creator's limitless imagination.