Picoreview: Valerian & the City of a Thousand Planets

Picoreview: Valerian & the City of a Thousand Planets: much worse than it had to be.

I went to see this with a friend who’s visiting, and we agreed that it really was much worse than it had to be, which is different, perhaps a step up from, “not as good as it could have been.”

The dialogue, specifically the dialogue between leads Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne, was excrutiating. They had roughly the chemistry of two wet paper towels (although that may be doing wet paper towels a disservice),...