‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ Review: Nia DaCosta Charts the Middle Chapter of a UK Post-Apocalypse That Remains Appreciably Weird [B]
Anyone who saw 28 Years Later would likely pinpoint the last two minutes of the film as a source of serious excitement, bewilderment, or some... Read More
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‘Zootopia 2’ Review: The Fast and the Furriest [B-]
During our precarious social moment in America—where wealth inequality continues to skyrocket, federal police forces are taking to the streets to strip vulnerable people of... Read More
Interview: Wunmi Mosaku on Finding the Grounded Spirituality of Annie in Ryan Coogler’s Emotionally Charged Vampire Epic ‘Sinners’
The wildly tight tonal balance of Ryan Coogler’s surprise 2025 hit Sinners, the 1930s-set Southern period drama turned survive-the-night pulpy vampire genre thriller, is not... Read More
‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’ Review: A Few New Magicians, the Same Old Tricks [D]
I’d say it’s some kind of magic trick that has allowed the Now You See Me movies to have sustained enough of a fandom to... Read More
‘Tron: Ares’ Review: What Kind of Legacy Is This? [C+]
As the world marches ever forward into an AI and virtual reality-driven era—one tech moguls and corporations desperately seek to define on their own terms... Read More
Nick Corirossi, Armen Weitzman, Jamar Neighbors, and Mike Mitchell Talk Willing a Franchise into Existence with ‘The Napa Boys’ [VIDEO INTERVIEW]
The Napa Boys are back! That’s the central premise for the new niche as hell comedy from co-writers and stars Nick Corirossi (who also directs)... Read More
‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’ Review: Kogonada’s Grounded Perspective Is at Odds with Flighty and Sentimental Metaphysical Romance [C]
The only thing more ridiculous than the title A Big Bold Beautiful Journey may be the fact that the title is said out loud in... Read More
‘Christy’ Review: Sydney Sweeney’s Boxer Biopic Has Familiar Filmmaking Genes but a Captivating Central Story of Perseverance [B] TIFF
It’s easy to look at Christy, the new boxing biopic from journeyman director David Michôd, and expect the most formulaic story: a scrappy fighter from... Read More
‘Dust Bunny’ Review: Bryan Fuller’s Hybrid Fantasy-Action-Horror Fable Has an Endearingly Childlike Sense of Enchantment [B] TIFF
There’s not much talking at the beginning of Dust Bunny. The opening 15 minutes of the long-awaited feature-length film from cult favorite TV writer Bryan... Read More
‘Adulthood’ Review: Alex Winter’s Suburban Neo-Noir Dark Comedy is Dead on Arrival [C-] TIFF
Alex Winter hasn’t directed a narrative feature film since 2015’s Smosh: The Movie. In some sense, you could say we haven’t gotten a real Alex... Read More
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