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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.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a breathtaking and cathartic step forward for the franchise

Marvel’s Black Panther sequel is a simultaneously joyous and mournful return to Wakanda that introduces the MCU’s next great villain.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Enola Holmes 2 has all the fun and charm a family-friendly action movie needs

The sequel doesn’t do all that much new, but it’s a solid take on a dying breed of film

Andrew Webster
Wendell & Wild is a classic Henry Selick joint about living with your personal demons

Netflix’s Wendell & Wild is about to join the great canon of spooky stop-motion films from director Henry Selick

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Decision to Leave is a gloriously frustrating mystery

Park Chan-wook, the director behind Oldboy and The Handmaiden, returns with a film that’s part whodunit, part ill-fated romance

Sara Merican
Hulu’s Hellraiser is a shock to the system that gets a little lost in its grotesque excess

The new Pinhead has such sights to show you. Too many, perhaps.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Netflix’s latest Stephen King film is about the horrors of phone addiction

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

Andrew Webster
Kid Cudi’s Entergalactic visual feature gets by on good vibes and even better looks

Kid Cudi and Kenya Barris’ Entergalactic is a solid accompaniment to the rapper’s eighth studio album

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Glass Onion solidifies Knives Out as the next great mystery franchise

An early spoiler-free review of the sequel

Andrew Webster
Netflix’s Carter puts action above all else

Joo Won stars in the streamer’s new action showpiece

Sara Merican
Jordan Peele’s Nope is a breathtaking celebration of filmmaking as an art form

Jordan Peele’s done it again with Nope

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Thor: Love and Thunder’s a scattershot fairy tale about being friends with your ex

Thor: Love and Thunder puts its faith in comedy and romance

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Lightyear’s a stiff-as-plastic deconstruction of heroic space dramas

To infinity and back again, the Buzz Lightyear story

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Crimes of the Future is extreme surgery by way of classic film noir

Welcome to the inner beauty pageant

Adi Robertson
Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers is the sound of Disney laughing at its own meta humor

A modern Roger Rabbit this is not

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Alex Garland’s Men has more than one thing on its mind

Alex Garland’s latest, Men, has a bone to pick

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Doctor Strange 2 gets lost in a tangle of fan service and half-baked ideas

The Multiverse of Madness is a spooky mess

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Hatching finds horror in grotesque acts of self-care and violence

Hatching isn’t for the faint of heart

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Sonic 2 is a family-friendly speedrun through the franchise’s awkward phase

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 trips as it shifts gears

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Morbius is one long quick time event about battling bad habits

Not even Spider-Man could save Morbius

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Everything Everywhere All At Once is charming, sprawling, and completely ridiculous

Martial arts meets surreal sci-fi

Adi Robertson
Pixar’s Turning Red captures the wonder and horror of being a teen in 2002

Pixar’s latest feature is another stunner

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Kogonada’s After Yang finds beauty in the quiet dystopia of grief

After Yang knows what androids dream of

Charles Pulliam-Moore
The Batman is young, dumb, and full of soft-spoken ennui

The Batman franchise has seen better days

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Uncharted’s road to gold is plagued by its brosUncharted’s road to gold is plagued by its bros
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Bigbug’s a charming nightmare about the internet of other people and their things

The internet of things falls apart

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Moonfall is a hollow, galaxy-brained spectacleMoonfall is a hollow, galaxy-brained spectacle
Charles Pulliam-Moore
The Matrix Resurrections is more interested in being self-aware than being good

A fantastic setup to a tepid sequel

Adi Robertson
Spider-Man: No Way Home swings big on two decades of fan payoff

A big, satisfying, and occasionally messy conclusion

Chaim Gartenberg