Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)

A guy struggling to keep custody of his younger sister has to take a crappy security job at a Chuck E. Cheese knockoff with animatronic creatures that come alive at night. But Night at the Museum, this is not. Visually, the robots look great (courtesy of Jim Henson's Creature Shop), but it's missing the stark horror and simplicity of the games. It's an amusing horror comedy that does the best it can with its PG-13 premise, but if you want to see the better (albeit, unofficial) adaptation of FNaF, check out Nicolas Cage in Willy's Wonderland.

2½ camera angles out of 5

Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)

I hadn't seen SKoW before, but it felt very familiar. It turns out it's a retelling of Pretty in Pink (1986) with some gender roles reversed. (Thanks, Wiki.).
In this version the love-struck youth is Keith (Eric Stoltz), an eighteen-year-old working class student who falls for Amanda (Lea Thompson), a high-schooler with a self-important attitude that's encouraged by her middle class friends.
It wears its 80s heart on its sleeve, but has weak leads and a final third that's some kind of boring. The only memorable youths were Keith's tomboy friend Watts (Mary Stuart Masterson), who resides on the sidelines, overlooked and underappreciated, and the bullying skinhead played by Elias Koteas.

2½ drumsticks out of 5