Reviews

‘What If?’ review: A marvelously mixed bag of multiverse mischief

Hot on the heels of WandaVision, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and Loki, Marvel and Disney+ have returned with their… Read More

August 10, 2021

‘Respect’ review: Jennifer Hudson honors Aretha Franklin and belts out another Oscar-worthy performance

Liesl Tommy’s Respect opens in Detroit, in the home where Aretha Franklin (1942-2018) lived for much of her childhood. It is 1952,… Read More

August 8, 2021

‘Free Guy’ review: Ryan Reynolds is one ready player but video game film treads overly familiar territory

The Deadpool star brings his deadpan shtick but is often overshadowed by his winning co-stars Leave it to Disney to… Read More

August 5, 2021

‘The Suicide Squad’ review: A gory, gut-punching (and eating), magnificent rollercoaster of madness

The opening sequence of James Gunn's new film, The Suicide Squad, immediately seizes the audience's attention. The Guardians of the Galaxy director skips the usually… Read More

August 4, 2021

From ‘Man of Steel’ to ‘The Suicide Squad,’ all DCEU movies ranked

To say that the DCEU has experienced some growing pains since its inception in 2013 with the release of Man of… Read More

August 2, 2021

‘Ted Lasso’ recap: Season 2, episode 2 -“Lavender”

While everyone certainly welcomed Ted Lasso back into our lives last week, it appears that this week the writers have… Read More

July 30, 2021

‘Vivo’ review: A pleasant, if conventional, musical comedy should satisfy families

While Lin-Manuel Miranda missed out on his chance to EGOT five years ago (after Moana’s “How Far I’ll Go” lost… Read More

July 29, 2021

‘Stillwater’ review: Tom McCarthy’s latest is a harrowing if uneven drama with Matt Damon’s best performance in years

Unless you were living under a rock, it was hard to forget about the Amanda Knox case. A story in… Read More

July 28, 2021

Retrospective: 20 years later, Julie Andrews and Anne Hathaway remain the brightest crown jewels of ‘The Princess Diaries’

“Amelia Mignonette Thermopolis Renaldi. Princess. Of. Genovia.” Give a woman of a certain age a microphone (and several cocktails—guilty) and… Read More

July 28, 2021

‘Jungle Cruise’ review: Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson can’t save this bloated sinking ship

Back in the early 2000s, it was announced Disney was creating a live action film version of one of their… Read More

July 27, 2021

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