Movie Review
Are you looking for recommendations about the best and worst in current film releases? Our movie reviews try to get past brief opinions and dig into why a given movie works, and what it has to offer.
Crimes of the Future is extreme surgery by way of classic film noir
Welcome to the inner beauty pageant
Doctor Strange 2 gets lost in a tangle of fan service and half-baked ideas
The Multiverse of Madness is a spooky mess
Sonic 2 is a family-friendly speedrun through the franchise’s awkward phase
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 trips as it shifts gears
Morbius is one long quick time event about battling bad habits
Not even Spider-Man could save Morbius
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Pixar’s Turning Red captures the wonder and horror of being a teen in 2002
Pixar’s latest feature is another stunner
The Batman is young, dumb, and full of soft-spoken ennui
The Batman franchise has seen better days
Uncharted’s road to gold is plagued by its bros
PlayStation Productions’ feature is an epic dud
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Netflix’s The House is an unsettling anthology wrapped in cozy stop-motion
A collection of three stories each exploring a different kind of terror
The Matrix Resurrections is more interested in being self-aware than being good
A fantastic setup to a tepid sequel
Marvel’s Eternals is big, beautiful, and empty
Marvel’s epoch-spanning epic has too many heroes but still feels empty
Dune puts an epic franchise ahead of its epic story
Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation wows with scale and scope but is missing an ending
Shang-Chi made me excited about the Marvel Cinematic Universe again
I’m ready for Shang-Chi to meet Thor
Free Guy is like a AAA game: fun, goofy, and doing narrative backflips to make a guy the lead
Ryan Reynolds is an oblivious NPC in a flashy video game-themed action flick
Jungle Cruise desperately wants to be The Mummy
The adventure flick based on a ride has lofty and often entertaining aspirations
Black Widow injects a little James Bond into the MCU
Natasha Romanoff finally gets her standalone film