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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Bullet Train is an wholesale derailment, an inane, ’90s-styled crime caper built on comedy that isn’t funny and action that’s plagued by godawful execution.…
The Gray Man is an unforgivably bland and phoned-in actioner defined by digital smearing and toothless character work. It’s a little disingenuous to describe a…
Nope is undeniably ambitious and cribs from the best, but its determined obliqueness and prioritizing of subtext over genre thrills make for a rather sluggish…
Where the Crawdads Sing is a soggy, laughably self-serious mess that isn’t able to calibrate its particular wavelength of melodrama. Based on the wildly popular…
The Rise of Gru is gorgeously animated and has fun with its ’70s setting, but there’s a clear vein of laziness that keeps it…
Thor: Love and Thunder is a film that has TV series written all over it, and is but the latest MCU entry to land…
Incantation is found footage horror that does little to add fresh twists to a stale formula, instead relying on a non-stop barrage of tired…
Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis delivers what’s expected: thrillingly pure exhibitionism for its own sake, the kind of massively scaled contemporary blockbuster in too short supply…
No one is going to mistake Lightyear for a return to form for Pixar, but its littered small pleasures make for an inoffensive animated space…
Jurassic World Dominion is at least better than the franchise’s last entry, but its reliance on legacy callbacks and a miscalculated primary plot thread leaves…
The Bob’s Burger’s Movie is fitfully amusing but wholly unnecessary, its translation to a long form and the big screen proving distinctly underwhelming. Fox Television’s…