Since the last Mission: Impossible movie, Fallout, was released in 2018, Tom Cruise has seemingly forced his superhero status into the real world by…
Like your sainted grandmother almost certainly used to say, there’s nothing better than an insipidly violent piece of trash to restore your faith in…
Surviving the turnover of multiple directors, literal years of delays and reshoots, endless public troubles centered around its star, and even the wholesale scrapping…
Hot on the heels of his tepid Netflix spy show, FUBAR, the streamer has delivered a three-hour miniseries centering its star, the legendary Arnold…
What else is possibly left to say about the Fast & Furiouses? Fans excitedly devour each new installment with an oxymoronic combination of total…
What if you mixed Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure with a little bit of Inception and topped it off with a dash of Firestarter? Sounds pretty…
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has done a great job of earning a reputation for grinding down the personalities of interesting directors-for-hire with endless tinkering…
In case you couldn’t tell from the big goofy afro, pleasant demeanor, and paintbrush, the character of Carl Nargle in Brit Mcadams’ Paint, played…
Let’s say you wanted to define the dramatic stakes in Ben Affleck’s new, based-on-a-true-story movie Air. Start with the premise: it’s 1984, and Nike…
What started more than two decades ago as a completely unexpected shot in the arm for a mostly dead subgenre has steadily declined into…
Creed III continues to mirror the trajectory of its parent Rocky franchise. The first one was a dare-you-say transcendent recapitulation of the original film’s…
The 31st (!) film in the never-ending Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the kickoff to its Phase Five (whatever that means), Quantumania is also the…
In the course of that rich history of films about con artists, the appeal has almost always been to watch largely amoral professionals execute…
Based on Louis Bayard’s 2003 novel, Scott Cooper’s painfully dull The Pale Blue Eye imagines a fictional murder mystery featuring one Edgar Allan Poe…
Welcome to the new world of genre cinema, where decades of low-budget sleaze and slime have been overtaken by PG-13-rated, eminently meme-able stuff that’s…
Even by James Cameron standards, The Way of Water is an astonishing work of pure visual spectacle. Bow down before your Lord and Savior,…
The Menu is a poor attempt at satire that fails to develop anything more than the shallowest of ideas. Let’s quickly take stock: Triangle…
Leonor Will Never Die is a sweetly thoughtful drama disguised as loving genre throwback, with perhaps a pinch of cannier discourse creeping beneath its…