White Elephant might satiate devoted JVJ fans but will feel warmed-over for other DTV action heads. Even the best filmmakers have a few stumbles in them.…
Interceptor makes enough of its modest scale to please DTV action junkies until the next low-budget blaster comes along. DTV action lovers will have a…
There isn’t much left to say about George Miller’s Mad Max films. They’ve gone from the first entry’s scrappy DIY exploitation to Fury Road’s multimillion-dollar,…
Emergency understands the tragedy of individuals forced to feel systematically dehumanized, but stumbles when it comes to logic, comedy, and tension. The college party movie, usually…
Like previous Garland films, Men is a stylish but thematically bankrupt enterprise that staves off boredom while offering no real thrills or substance. You could be…
Top Gun: Maverick is the ultimate legacy sequel, and a thrilling ode to the fading era of true action movie stars. Slotting squarely into the…
The Twin is a thoughtless, derivative bit of horror pap that feels like it was written by a bot. Utterly generic in every conceivable way,…
Multiverse of Madness is all endless, torturous exposition buried within soulless CGI spectacle, and an insult to Sam Raimi’s presence. Is it worth it to…
Unbearable Weight is the latest high-concept, one-joke movie, but it’s thankfully a funny enough joke to justify the film’s existence. Nicolas Cage is Nicolas Cage —…
Dual is delightfully off-kilter and funny enough to keep the viewer’s attention, but is undermined by its failures of internal logic and a general impression of…
The Northman is a brutal and beautiful bit of mythic spectacle, but can still sometimes feel restrained despite its outsized production. Gather round: it’s time for…
Ambulance is pure action mastery and Michael Bay’s best film in 20 years. Let’s just get this out of the way up front: you’re not likely…
The Bubble is a self-indulgent, unfunny mess of a film that continues Apatow’s sharp artistic decline. Few modern comedies have been as self-indulgent, unfunny, strangely dated,…
Everything Everywhere All at Once, true to its title, can be a little chaotic and unruly, but it’s still a hilarious and impeccably crafted bit of…
The Contractor isn’t much for ambition, but it accomplishes precisely what it sets out to, and lets Chris Pine have a little fun in the meantime.…
You Are Not My Mother is appealingly steeped in the folk-horror tradition, but has a suffocating visual aesthetic and the unfortunately distinct feel of a padded-out…
X is a gnarly throwback horror that sheds the genre’s present obsession with being about something and just slings blood and jokes for the duration of its runtime. …
Deep Water is an erotic thriller that’s neither particularly erotic nor thrilling. Those hoping for a horny throwback to the now-considered-classic erotic thrillers of the…
Bloody Oranges is late-’90s Tarantino knockoff adorned with finger-wagging political window dressing. Partway through alleged French comedy Bloody Oranges is an epigraph from Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci (yes,…
The Batman is an entirely overlong and overextended affair, but otherwise delivers gorgeous imagery, thoughtful mythos, and playfully brooding emo inflection. The Dark Knight is moodier…