Movies

A better movie was within reach, which makes it all the sadder that Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is reluctantly the movie we get, a visual spectacle that bores as it overwhelms.

Beyond the Gates is a low budget film done right.

Christopher Nolan is one of the rare filmmakers in the world that can do anything he wants.

Reeves, serving as co-writer once more with Mark Bomback, brings the franchise to its natural and thrilling conclusion. War for the Planet of the Apes is a blockbuster with soul.

Spider-Man: Homecoming announces itself as a brash, exhilarating, hilarious, and amazingly assured film that immediately lines up with the upper tier of the MCU.

In his most recent film, the auteur is now tackling the mass conglomeration of the meat packing industry.

Car chases are one of the greatest things in movie history.

Transformers: The Last Knight is exactly what the detractors have railed against from the start: a cacophonous ejaculation of incomprehensible nonsense.

Baby Driver has all the action and suspense of Heat and has all the fun and driving of Smokey And the Bandit.

Never do anything nice for anyone. You’re not paranoid if they’re really out to get you.

Summer is the perfect season for escapist B-movies about man-eating killer sharks, the counterpart to the beach read paperback.

Wonder Woman will totally kick your ass.

I owe Gal Gadot an overdue apology.

For the first half of Raw I thought I was watching a French nouveau version of Carrie.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is a definite improvement over its waterlogged 2011 predecessor, but I can’t help feeling like the magic of this franchise has been squelched.

The only thing harder than getting rid of a ghost may be getting rid of an exorcist.

The Psycho Drive-In All-Stars now have some things to say about the latest film in one of Hollywood’s most enduring and important science fiction franchises.

If I do not see a more headache-inducing, self-indulgent, cumbersome, illogical, and generally exasperating movie this summer, I will consider myself most fortunate.

Frankenstein Created Bikers earns its Exploitation Club members card with bonus points.

If Marvel was ever going to have a dud in its near historic run of blockbuster success, it should have been Guardians of the Galaxy.