Surviving the turnover of multiple directors, literal years of delays and reshoots, endless public troubles centered around its star, and even the wholesale scrapping…
The latest installment of the Evil Dead franchise, Evil Dead Rise, opens with a sequence that will be instantly recognizable to longtime fans of…
The otherworldly entities featured so prominently in the title of superhero sequel Shazam! Fury of the Gods certainly seem to be doing quite a…
Bill Forsyth may have to bear the reductive, buzzy distinction of having “put Scottish cinema on the map,” but he at least did so…
“What are your plans for Act Three?” asks one character of Channing Tatum’s Mike about the show he’s directing in Magic Mike’s Last Dance,…
When Malcolm X, the epic biographical drama about the titular civil rights figure, hit theaters in November 1992, it came off the heels of…
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…
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…
Like the best fiction for young children, the secret to Roald Dahl’s bibliography is its sensory qualities, that it can unlock new pathways in…
“Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality. Don’t put limitations on yourself. Others will do that for you.” — James Cameron…
In the 25 years since Robert Zemeckis released Contact, the search for extraterrestrials has moved from fringe conspiracy theory to a matter of national…
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…
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…
The Secret of Dumbledore is yet another bloated franchise entry that further flattens the Wizarding World’s profoundly diminished appeal. It’s 2022 and whatever magic a…
Navalny is a valuable film in our age of geopolitical misinformation, but also skews toward hagiography and relies too heavily on an info-dump style format.…
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…
It’s impossible to replicate the essential newness of the original Matrix, but Resurrections is another deeply idiosyncratic huge swing that’s destined to be underappreciated for the near…
King Richard ticks all the inspiration sports story boxes, but transcends the template thanks to the vivid, granular attention paid to its lived-in details and…