Movie Review
Are you looking for recommendations about the best and worst in current film releases? Our movie reviews try to get past brief opinions and dig into why a given movie works, and what it has to offer.
Engaging, comical, and unapologetically dorky, Honor Among Thieves occasionally stumbles under its own ambition but ultimately proves that high fantasy doesn’t always have to be highbrow.
Director Jon S. Baird’s Apple TV Plus Tetris movie is a textbook example of a biopic that has no idea how to make its story pop.
John Wick 4 is a supersized all-you-can-eat buffet of the franchise’s signature dishes: bullet-riddled revenge, teeth-chattering action sequences, and gossamer-thin characters.
Director Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear over-delivers on a very simple, silly premise that mostly works because it doesn’t take anything seriously except being ridiculous.
Michael B. Jordan’s directorial debut feels like an experimental remake of Rocky V that finally lets Adonis Creed step outside of his mentor’s shadow.
Watching the third Ant-Man film is sort of like being on a Marvel-themed acid trip that’s actually pretty fun until it comes to a confusingly abrupt halt.
M. Night Shyamalan’s new psychological horror turns the home invasion genre on its head to tell a story about outcasts with the power to save or destroy humanity.
M3gan is even more ridiculous than the trailers let on, but it’s also a surprisingly solid horror comedy.
James Cameron’s second Avatar movie is a visual upgrade over the first, but its story and ideas about fetishization of indigenous peoples are just as retrograde.
Netflix’s new Pinocchio from Guillermo del Toro is a mesmerizing, anti-fascist morality tale.
Marvel’s Black Panther sequel is a simultaneously joyous and mournful return to Wakanda that introduces the MCU’s next great villain.
The sequel doesn’t do all that much new, but it’s a solid take on a dying breed of film
Netflix’s Wendell & Wild is about to join the great canon of spooky stop-motion films from director Henry Selick
Park Chan-wook, the director behind Oldboy and The Handmaiden, returns with a film that’s part whodunit, part ill-fated romance
The new Pinhead has such sights to show you. Too many, perhaps.
Mr. Harrigan’s Phone is a thriller with an iPhone as the villain and the rare King adaptation that truly captures the entirety of the source material
Kid Cudi and Kenya Barris’ Entergalactic is a solid accompaniment to the rapper’s eighth studio album
An early spoiler-free review of the sequel
Joo Won stars in the streamer’s new action showpiece
Jordan Peele’s done it again with Nope
Thor: Love and Thunder puts its faith in comedy and romance
To infinity and back again, the Buzz Lightyear story
