One of the biggest early hits of the pandemic was Netflix’s 2020 film The Old Guard, based on the graphic novel by writer Greg Rucka and illustrator Leandro Fernandez. Charlize […]
With seven films across more than three decades, the Jurassic Park/World installments have been all over the place in terms of quality, filmmaking prowess, and storytelling. But the elements that […]
Ruth is a retired cook. As the film opens, she’s in her cozy kitchen preparing lunch for a guest, setting the table, and then getting dressed up. The guest is […]
A few documentaries of late have dealt with the children of famous people, searching for stories about a parent’s life because they have few or no memories of them. The idea […]
Produced by genre titans James Wan and Jason Blum, and helmed by returning writer-director Gerald Johnstone, M3GAN 2.0 does something bold in the horror field: it shifts tones from the […]
Let me begin by saying I’m not going to begrudge anyone fully embracing the Vroom Vroom of F1: The Movie for the simple fact that the car-racing sequences are one […]
I’m perhaps most leery of documentaries in which the filmmaker is also, to a degree, the subject. Such is the case with Rachel Elizabeth Seed’s deeply personal film A Photographic […]
In the past, whenever Disney has given us a central character whose parents die in the early stages of the film, they are either left to fend for themselves (perhaps […]
I’m sure the elevator pitch for this one was something basic like “Bridesmaids meets Spy”—an action comedy starring Rebel Wilson as Sam, a highly effective secret agent who has buried […]
Twenty-three years after director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland brought us the lo-fi, virus-fueled horror favorite 28 Days Later, the creative team reunites for a very different type of […]
Firmly in the realm of B-movies, director Michael Pearce’s (Beast, Encounter) Echo Valley is certainly elevated by the work of terrific and compelling actors, who consistently pick up the slack […]
To call live-action remakes of classic animated films a mixed bag is a wild understatement, but successful ones usually see the filmmakers actually put some thought and attention into what […]