Tag: Mark Wahlberg
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“Instant Family” Manages to Get It Right, Eventually
In the adoption comedy Instant Family Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne agree to foster and adopt three minority children (Isabela Moner, Gustavo Quiroz, Juliana Gamiz) who are caught in the intricacies and sometimes unfairness of the juvenile justice system. There is the usual speechifying, rough edges smoothed, easily resolved traumas and complication, but at its…
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“Mile 22” Loses Its Way at Mile 21
Director Peter Berg, working with Wahlberg for the fourth time, keeps everything humorlessly direct and savagely bloody.