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…
Paolo Sorrentino's striking coming-of-age drama sinks into the gaiety of family history and the pangs of family tragedy as the hand of fate throws a young man's future into question.…
Ridley Scott delivers a petty crime epic that’s especially interested in melodrama and absurdist comedic beats. Gaga and Driver are strong but Jared Leto as aLittle Lord Fauntleroy in a…
‘Licorice Pizza’ is a coming-of-age romantic-comedy that only Paul Thomas Anderson could tell. An anarchic swirl of memories and mood make for a unique, and uniquely hysterical, vision of the…
With 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife', the supernatural-comedy franchise hopefully has found its final resting place. There's elements that work really well here - the kid's performances, a lot of the creature effects,…