The question we had when The Purge came out in 2013 was: Wait, how does this work? In this near-future version of […]
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Uncle Drew, a basketball comedy directed by Charles Stone III (Drumline, Mr. 3000), ought to be about the title character, a […]
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In Sicario: Day of the Soldado, the grim, unpleasant sequel to the 2015 film that grappled with the morality of the […]
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Bad news, everyone: dinosaurs are boring now. People were so preoccupied with whether they could make a fifth Jurassic Park movie, they […]
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The Catcher Was a Spy begins with onscreen titles telling us that after the Nazis split the atom and put Dr. Heisenberg […]
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When The Incredibles came out, in November 2004, it was Pixar’s sixth movie and only about the ninth superhero movie in the […]
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Tag turns an outrageous-yet-true story into one that’s just outrageous, with details that couldn’t possibly be true. Based on a 2013 […]
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SuperFly, a modern-day remake of the 1972 blaxploitation classic — about a successful cocaine dealer of color who wants to get […]
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With a hint of wistfulness to give it some weight, Hearts Beat Loud is a happy, sunshiny movie about saying goodbye, letting […]
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The John Wick movies have a hotel, The Continental, that’s exclusively for assassins, where a code of conduct (e.g., no “working” on […]
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Remember how Danny Ocean needed 10 friends (and then 11, and then 12) to pull off his heists? In Ocean’s Eight, […]
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I didn’t grow up with Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (or Sesame Street, for that matter). We didn’t have cable yet when I was […]
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