‘Wolf Man’ Review: Christopher Abbott Takes a Lycan for Flesh in Leigh Whannell’s Thrilling and Thoughtful Monster Movie [A-]
There have been many versions of werewolf movies over the past century, but it has been a long time since we have been gifted with... Read More
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‘Santosh’ Review: Sandhya Suri’s Crime Thriller is Too Dependent on Tropes to Be Arresting [B-]
Some narrative cliches are universal, and the rookie cop who slowly comes to realize their superiors aren’t the good guys is a staple of the... Read More
‘Sonic the Hedgehog 3’ Review: Threequel Outshines Its Predecessors by Introducing a Shadow [B]
It’s funny what a series of competent, agreeable family movies have done for the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. Following a prolonged down period for the... Read More
‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ Review: If Lion Cubs Could Talk [D]
On December 5, 2024, film critic Matt Zoller Seitz published a profile feature for Vulture entitled “Moonlight in the Lion’s Den.” It traces filmmaker Barry... Read More
‘A Complete Unknown’ Review: Chalamet is Great, but Film Succumbs to Familiar Biopic Pitfalls of a Life Collapsed into Montage [C+]
It’s hard to ask for a more routinely workmanlike filmmaker than James Mangold. Whether working in the realm of mental health drama (Girl, Interrupted), big... Read More
‘The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim’ Review: Bland and Dull, it Put the “Mid” in “Middle-earth” [C+]
Like a Nazgûl flying overhead, Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy has cast a shadow over the new film The Lord of the... Read More
‘Nosferatu’ Review: Lily-Rose Depp Gives a Ferocious Performance as Robert Eggers Creates a Wicked, Wintry Wonderland of Sex, Desire and Death [A]
The dreamlike twinkling of a music box trills as if to begin a fairy tale. This lullaby-like tune has an unsettling feeling, though, and instead... Read More
‘Moana 2’ Review: Rough Seas and a Waterlogged Narrative Sink Choppy Sequel
The 2016 release of Moana was one of the highlights of Disney’s animated film output of the 2010s. It features tuneful, emotive songs by Lin-Manuel... Read More
‘Wicked’ Review: Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande Will Sweep You Off Your Feet in Jon M. Chu’s High-Flying Musical Feast
The Wicked Witch of the West was an icon of cinematic villainy for decades before Gregory Maguire’s 1995 revisionary novel became one of Broadway’s most... Read More
‘Red One’ Review: The North Pole Has Fallen For Johnny Storm and The Rock
If you ever wished that Air Force One (1997) and Olympus Has Fallen (2013) took place in a world where supernatural folklore figures existed and... Read More
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