Movie Review

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Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut has Get Out aspirations, but it lands somewhere closer to Don’t Worry Darling.

Though Fede Álvarez’s new Alien film is gorgeous, its questionable optics leave much to be desired.

Director Tilman Singer’s Cuckoo feels tailor-made for this summer of atmospheric, unsatisfying horror.

M. Night Shyamalan’s latest is a pitchy mess about who gets a pass.

Beneath the dick jokes and solid X-Men cameos, Deadpool & Wolverine feels like Marvel’s way of admitting how much of a mess its multiverse era has been.

The latest installment of Ti West’s X franchise is a glamorously cutthroat send-up of Ronald Reagan-era excess and moral panic.

Director Muta’Ali’s MoviePass, MovieCrash is a thorough but circuitous breakdown of how executives’ obsession with exponential growth all but destroyed the company.

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes remixes beats from the franchise’s previous films to tell a story about how myths evolve.

A24’s I Saw the TV Glow from writer / director Jane Schoenbrun is a brilliant exploration of how people can find and lose themselves in the media they love.

Netflix’s Rebel Moon films both feel like Zack Snyder trying to celebrate sci-fi classics by gently riffing on them in some of the least inspired ways possible.

Director Alex Garland’s new dystopian thriller seems like it has something to say about American society, but it doesn’t have the guts to articulate a cohesive, thoughtful point.

Dev Patel’s directorial debut surges with enough energy to make its action work, but it stumbles as it veers into social commentary.

Director Adam Wingard’s Godzilla vs. Kong sequel is big on bombastic spectacle and new lore but woefully lacking in terms of story and substance.

A24’s phenomenal new surrealist comedy feels like a story that only writer / director Julio Torres could pull off.

Bertrand Mandico’s feminist spin on Conan is a heady smorgasbord of gorgeous visuals and meditations on violence.

Denis Villeneuve’s second Dune film brilliantly lays bare the dark truths central to Frank Herbert’s operatic opus.

Sony’s Madame Web isn’t especially great or terrible, but it’s surprisingly committed to transporting you back to 2003 — a golden age for comic book movies that were aggressively mid or worse.

Co-directors Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe Tavares’ new action drama is a masterclass in using near-futuristic, sci-fi storytelling to illustrate harsh realities about our present.

And the world is full of marks.

Despite occasionally gorgeous visuals, James Wan’s Aquaman sequel feels like a testament to everything that went right and wrong with the DC Extended Universe.

Michael Mann’s biopic of the Italian sports car maker feels at home in the director’s canon of obsessive men.

The latest Studio Ghibli film is out in North American theaters after premiering in Japan earlier in the year.

Toho’s latest Godzilla film from writer / director Takashi Yamazaki takes the kaiju king back to its roots to tell a sobering story about reckoning with the present.

Writer / director Kristoffer Borgli’s Dream Scenario capitalizes on Nicolas Cage’s status as a living legend to tell a brilliant story about the perils of fame.

Scorsese’s latest demands — not asks — us to witness the horrors the US has wrought upon the Osage Nation and understand some of what it means for Indigenous people to survive in this country today.