'Scream' (2022) perfects the franchise formula by punching up individual elements like casting and kills, delivering a "requel" filled with campy callbacks and clever subversions that more than justifies bringing…
In the stunning second season of the Apple TV+ space exploration drama, all the cards were on the table. From the jaw-dropping first minutes of episode one to the emotionally-gutting…
What a year it’s been. In some capacities, post-pandemic life began to creep back to normal with the aid of vaccines. So too did the global box office. But multiple variants spooked people into skipping out of movies in theaters as a fundamental shift to the industry took shape. Day and date releases became more prevalent as...
Lana Wachowski has attempted to bring her beloved franchise back to life with ‘The Matrix: Resurrections’ but this third sequel has all the brains of Frankenstein. And the charm to…
A legacy sequel that overdelivers on its promise to wrangle the three generations of Spider-Man together, ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ is essentially a live-action Spider-Verse film that, while juggling a…
Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story is a definitional remake, one that pays too close attention to making every single element sing while forgetting to have a point of view, a…
A Texan ballad of a dirtbag ex-porn star, ‘Red Rocket’ is a sidesplittingly funny and brutally honest character study from writer-director Sean Baker. Its uncomfortable subject matter will be a…
Adam McKay’s ‘Don’t Look Up’ boasts an outstanding ensemble cast with some of the biggest A-list stars on the planet to build a farcical “the sky is falling” dark comedy.…
‘Being the Ricardos’ is an only serviceable Lucille Ball biopic that overdelivers on narrative artifice and under-delivers on stakes. Though Nicole Kidman is the big awards contender, Javier Bardem is…
A B-movie carny noir shot with the handsome care of a prestige picture, ‘Nightmare Alley’ is a gloomy product firmly in Del Toro’s wheelhouse, and the Oscar-winning director knows just…