She Said lends no depth to its leads and is an aesthetically anonymous work that fails to justify the big screen treatment. It has been…
Wakanda Forever rises higher than your usual MCU product, but it’s a project that ultimately works better on paper than in execution. Everyone notes that…
Red looks like a One Piece film but doesn’t feel like one, lazily delivering franchise content without the emotional and visual force necessary to truly animate it. For…
Black Adam entertains, but only if you view it on autopilot and disregard its lack of thematic subtlety. As Black Adam crash-lands into theaters this Friday,…
Ticket to Paradise is an entirely charmless rom-com fronted by a poisonous couple and sleepwalking its way through bland genre tropes. How hard could it possibly…
The Banshees of Inisherin benefits from its lead characters’ unconventional dynamic, thoughtfully examining the ways in which individuals navigate the nuances of life within their…
Halloween Ends is a superior to film to Halloween Kills, and that’s essentially where the praise ends. Let’s be clear about one thing right off…
As the one-dimensional cartoon Colonel Quaritch (Stephen Lang) tells his new recruits, “You’re not in Kansas anymore. You are on Pandora,” James Cameron is writing…
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile is an undeniably gonzo experience, but it’s ultimately not much more than an oddball visual accompaniment to the film’s sure-to-boom soundtrack. Josh Gordon…
Amsterdam is an unredeemable, punchline-less comedy that shamelessly spews the most sickeningly neoliberal messaging of 2022. The given motto of David O. Russell’s last three credited…
Bros is a would be rom-com lacking in comedy, chemistry, and untroubled rhetoric on gay culture. First off, the good news: director/co-writer Nicholas Stoller’s Bros is…
Don’t Worry Darling fails to deliver even as much intrigue as its publicity tour, its shallow, ridiculous script resulting in a film that lands with…
The Woman King flattens its feminist appeal into Disney-fied girlboss energy and executes what’s left of its vision in both conventional and calculated ways. What’s one…
Clerks III is a fans-only venture that’s sunk by a childishness devoid of wonder and poignant moments consistently undermined by self-mockery. In Arthur Penn’s 1967 Bonnie…
Brahmāstra Part One: Shiva is a soulless mega-franchise starter that does very little of interest with its massive budget. Chances are, you already know what…
Pinocchio is a fascinating late-period work from Zemeckis, one that takes in the full scope of his career as he wills us to believe in the…
Honk For Jesus’ plot is unevenly distributed and its tone a bit imbalanced, but it ultimately lands as a solid sendup of toxic church culture sold…
Beast is a sturdy, no-frills thriller that understands how to shred nerves and deliver gnarly creature-feature action. The B-movie creature feature comes roaring back with…
Super Hero is an impressive step forward in animation for the franchise, even as its constant winking can sometimes come off as an insecure plea for…
Easter Sunday is bad enough to make spending time with extended family start to seem appealing. A major studio releasing a film entitled Easter Sunday in…