Film Reviews

‘Alien: Romulus’ Review: Fede Álvarez’s ‘Alien’ Sequel is a Sometimes Thrilling, Yet Synthetic Greatest Hits Album

Forty-five years ago, Ridley Scott’s Alien completely changed the game for science fiction filmmaking. It combined aspects of the B-movies… Read More

August 14, 2024

‘Borderlands’ Review: Lock This Disaster in a Vault and Throw Away the Key

Was Madame Web just the warm-up for a bigger blockbuster disaster on the horizon? Lionsgate’s adaptation of the video game… Read More

August 8, 2024

‘It Ends With Us’ Review: Maybe We Should Have Kept Colleen Hoover on BookTok

It was only a matter of time before author du jour Colleen Hoover received the film adaptation treatment of one… Read More

August 7, 2024

‘Duchess’ Review: Neil Marshall’s Charmless Guy Ritchie Rip-Off is a Female Empowerment Forgery

In 1998, Guy Ritchie erupted onto the British cinema scene with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. The gangster movie,… Read More

August 5, 2024

‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Review: Movies, Now Less Than Ever!

If ever there was a movie “for the fans,” it’s Deadpool & Wolverine, which requires an elevated level of Marvel… Read More

July 23, 2024

‘Twisters’ Review: Maybe the Real Tornadoes Were the Friends We Met Along the Way

When Jan de Bont’s Twister was released in May of 1996, disaster movies were on the precipice of a huge… Read More

July 17, 2024

‘Look Back’ Review: Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Manga Masterpiece Becomes a Beautiful Hour of Anime

Look Back’s protagonist, Fujino (voiced by Yuumi Kawai), is introduced drawing gag manga strips for her elementary school newspaper. Her… Read More

July 16, 2024

‘Fly Me to the Moon’ Review: Failure to Launch

Once a staple of old Hollywood, it has been years since anyone has truly been able to recreate the screwball… Read More

July 9, 2024

‘Longlegs’ Review: Osgood Perkins’ Homage-Cloaked Horror Sometimes Spooks but Mostly Hides Original Ideas in the Shadows

Horror movies have increasingly felt the need to be bigger, badder, and bloodier over time, outdoing their predecessors by filling… Read More

July 6, 2024

‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’ Review: The Heat is Back On as Eddie Murphy Returns to His Movie Star Roots

It has been 30 years since Axel Foley’s last trip to the west coast, and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F… Read More

July 2, 2024

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