You might remember the 2019 movie sensation Joker. Todd Phillips, the guy who made the Hangovers, directed an allegedly searing portrait of mental illness, thwarted…
The world humanity leaves behind won’t be completely empty, despite our best attempts. There will be all the animals that manage to outlive a nuclear…
The act of remaking such a recent film as Christian Tafdrup’s Speak No Evil (2022), one more respectively recent than The Departed and Vanilla Sky’s…
The release of a new Tim Burton film prompts any number of critical referendums on the filmmaker’s work and legacy. For critics of a certain…
At it’s best, Justin Baldoni’s It Ends with Us manages to evoke Stephen King’s It. Based on Colleen Hoover’s novel of the same name, the…
Ridley Scott’s original 1979 Alien was simultaneously a landmark science fiction film and a landmark horror film, one that married slasher and haunted house scares…
Playing like a perverse continuation of the final scene of Tár, the new video game-to-feature-film adaptation Borderlands finds Cate Blanchett slumming it as a neon-redheaded, pistol-packing,…
M. Night Shyamalan’s proudly idiosyncratic career continues unabated with Trap, a profoundly silly and extremely entertaining little thriller that only becomes more of a blast…
Seemingly willed into existence by hungry fans, the Deadpool movies may not have been great action films or even superhero installments, but at their best…
Released the same summer as Independence Day, Jan de Bont’s 1996 special effects bonanza Twister helped kick off the late-’90s/early-2000s disaster movie glut. It’s a…
Confusing glibness for frothy irreverence, Greg Berlanti’s Fly Me to the Moon primarily caters to two long-underserved segments of the audience: those yearning for the reemergence…
The film begins with a man and a tripod. He swivels, shifts his body, scrutinizes the line. He’s not making moving pictures, living as he…
John Krasinski’s previous two A Quiet Place movies featured a family of refugees trying to survive after alien monsters — who attack anything that makes…
Playing exactly how one expects a film inspired by a book of photography might, Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders is a series of striking images of a nascent…
The dominant perspective in Pixar’s films about childhood — most significantly, the Toy Story entries and Inside Out — is that of the parent trying…
2020’s Bad Boys for Life, the third installment of the series after a 17-year gap, was “lucky” enough to come out mere months before Covid…
George Miller’s 2015 return to the Mad Max series he created all the way back in 1979, Fury Road, came a whopping 30 years after…
Many generations after the events of 2017’s War for the Planet of the Apes, we return to a future Earth where apes rule over man,…
Audiences are excited about the art of the stunt again. You’ve got Tom Cruise skydiving and crashing trains, Christopher Nolan’s Protagonist bungee-jumping over skyscrapers, Keanu…
Guy Ritchie has always been a bit of an aggressive but empty stylist. Right out of the gate with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,…