Mike Schulz talks with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about how Schulz, contrary to Dave and Darren (D&D), thought Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves “fine, with really good jokes in it,” but, overall, a bland outing, hobbled somewhat by the screenwriters’ ambition to show that their characters have FEELINGS to go along with the action. Also, Schulz was never a D&D fan like D&D. Nevertheless, the jokes do land, so it’s got that going for it. . . About A Thousand & One, about characters living under the foster-care radar in lower-middle-class Nineties-era Harlem, Schulz declares it his favorite film of the year so far, “so moving and surprising and caring. . . a knockout.” A Good Person, directed by Zach Braff, is good, not great, but has strong acting, with Florence Pugh as an opioid addict making horrible choices left and right and Morgan Freeman as one of her victims. The film reminded Schulz that Freeman was once an actor — was there ever a time when he wasn’t? — and, at eighty-five years old, he’s once again Oscar-worthy. . .

“Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves,” “A Thousand & One,” and “A Good Person”