‘Inside Out 2’ Review: Riley is Growing Up but Pixar Plays it a Bit Too Safe in Solid Sequel
The prospect of a new Pixar film is always an exciting one for audiences and a daunting one for its creators. Before and since moving... Read More
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‘House of the Dragon’ Season 2 Review: HBO’s Biggest Drama Brings Summer Heat with Blood-Soaked Targaryen Mayhem
When a Targaryen is born, the gods flip a coin. The two choices as it soars through the air are madness and greatness, a fine... Read More
‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Gremlins’ at 40: How One Day in the Summer of 1984 Defined a Childhood [Retrospective]
To a budding cinephile growing up in the 1980s, there was no better place for family outings than the drive-in theater. All comfortable and cozy... Read More
‘The Watchers’ Review: Ishana Night Shyamalan’s Feature Debut Falls Into Its Own Trap
The idea of following in your parent’s footsteps within a profession is an idea that never sounded appealing to me, but one can understand why... Read More
‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’ Review – Will Smith and Martin Lawrence Find Some Fresh Fun in Newest Ride
When the pandemic shuttered theaters in early 2020, Bad Boys for Life was a surprise box office hit and would wind up being the highest-grossing... Read More
The 25 Best Romantic Comedies of the Last 25 Years
2023 closed out with the shrug heard around the world, the solid-triple hit that was the romantic comedy Anyone But You. It was a fun... Read More
‘Young Woman and the Sea’ Review: Daisy Ridley Embodies Triumph and Tenacity as History-Making Swimmer Trudy Ederle
Daisy Ridley makes a triumphant return to the big screen, trading her vigilante hat in The Marsh King’s Daughter for a swim cap in a... Read More
‘To Live, To Die, To Live Again’ Review: Gaël Morel’s AIDS-era Drama Doesn’t Break New Ground but Doesn’t Need to Either | Cannes
Can you believe it’s been about a decade since the last major film that addressed HIV and AIDS? For a long while the theme dominated... Read More
‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’ Review: Vicky Krieps Rides High in Viggo Mortensen’s Slow, Sparse Western
The Western is a tricky genre to fully define. Whereas horror movies have to have scares and musicals have to have songs, it’s not always... Read More
‘To a Land Unknown’ Review: Mahdi Fleifel’s Thriller about Stranded Palestinian Refugees is Powerful and Unpretentious | Cannes
Mahdi Fleifel’s directorial debut in fiction, To a Land Unknown, follows the harrowing journey of Chatila (Mahmood Bakri) and Reda (Aram Sabbah), two Palestinian cousins... Read More
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