Category: Reviews

If you live in L.A. and have writer friends connected to the TV world, you’ve likely heard phrases like “diversity hire” […]

Coming on the heels of its shaky predecessor, The Secret Life of Pets 2 is a mild, playful surprise with the […]

Look, we’ve got to get one thing out of the way here. If you go into Ma expecting incisive commentary on […]

If there’s one thing Godzilla: King of the Monsters makes abundantly clear, it’s that we’ve collectively warped our definition of the […]

Having seen your share of formulaic biopics, you brace yourself when the first scene of Rocketman has Elton John (Taron Egerton) in […]

The Souvenir — British filmmaker Joanna Hogg’s haunting semi-autobiographical fourth feature — takes its title from a painting Hogg was taken […]

The new Aladdin, directed by English film lad Guy Ritchie (Snatch), is unnecessary even by the standards of unnecessary remakes. It […]

As horror premises go, “What if Superman were a sociopath?” is among the best I’ve heard lately. Brightburn, a scruffy, nasty, […]

I don’t think that Molly (Beanie Feldstein) and Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) — the lovable weird-girl protagonists of Booksmart — would begrudge […]

The true story that Trial by Fire is based on, told by David Grann in a 2009 New Yorker article, is fascinating […]

A lot of great art has been made about random but life-changing interactions between total strangers. Richard Linklater’s ’90s indie romance […]

John Wick’s first line of dialogue in John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum is an instruction to a taxi driver: “The […]