This visual decadence of Battle Angel is the greatest reason to see it, especially on the big screen if able.

Polar is such a thoroughly unpleasant film experience I was wondering if Lars von Trier had somehow made a comic book movie.

Bird Box isn’t a movie worth strong feelings, good or bad.

Ultimately your view of Aquaman will come down to what you’re willing to forgive in the name of fun spectacle.

Mortal Engines feels assembled from the many scattered pieces of other, better movies.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is the best-animated film of the year and one of the best films of the year, full stop.

Netflix might just be the best pasture yet for brothers Joel and Ethan Coen.

I cannot overstate how much I simply hate this movie’s title, Blue My Mind.

The Girl in the Spider’s Web gets caught in its own formulaic web.

I’m convinced there’s a potentially great movie in Suspiria but it’s going to require a lot of excavation to allow it to see the outside.

It is no disservice when I say that Bad Times at the El Royale joins the ranks of the finest of Tarantino imitators.

Venom is a mediocre superhero movie that doesn’t know what it wants to be.

Shane Black is going back home to revive the dormant franchise with The Predator, a big-budget sequel/reboot that aims for the stars and falls far, far too short.

Mandy is overwhelmingly a campy revenge thriller that celebrates the unique Cage-ness of Nicolas Cage’s more unhinged, bizarre performances.

From a structural standpoint, you never get a great sense of where Peppermint is going after that 45-minute mark.

The Nun is the fifth film in the series, the second spin-off film, and probably the movie with the least amount of narrative substance given its starting material.

The Meg has enough awareness, payoffs, and fun to stay afloat and be a better B-movie.

BlackkKlansman and Sorry to Bother You are each unique and fun but with larger messages to say about the black experience and other fissures within our volatile society.

Simply put, Mission Impossible: Fallout is the best straightforward action movie since Mad Max: Fury Road.

This is the first Purge movie to exist in the era of President Donald J. Trump, and that has made the films more political and even more oddly relevant.