Movies

As a second chance at franchise-making, The Suicide Squad is a brash, bloody, and irreverent retake and the best DCU movie yet.

Structurally, Pig seems to reinvent itself with every scene, providing new answers and insights as we unravel Rob’s past.

Black Widow is Marvel’s first theatrical release in almost two years and will likely benefit from some low expectations and eagerness to get back to the big screen spectacle of summer movies.

As far as the quality of action in The Tomorrow War, it’s a cut above thanks to director Chris McKay, making his live-action film debut.

This chapter in The Conjuring series marks several departures from the previous two films.

Army of the Dead has an easy concept that seems silly as well as begs the question, why we haven’t seen this kind of movie before?

Those Who Wish Me Dead reminds me of the vanishing mid-level thrillers that Hollywood used to crank out on a near weekly basis.

The new Mortal Kombat movie is fun, cool, bloody, and probably exactly what diehard fans would hope for from a big-screen rendition.

Chaos Walking has been shrouded under the ominous reputation of “troubled production” from its very inception.

If there was ever a film that deserved to be seen on as big a screen as possible, it’s Godzilla vs. Kong.

Without a doubt, Zack Snyder's Justice League is the better film than Josstice League could have ever hoped to be.

Psycho Goreman is like a gloriously inappropriate Power Rangers episode for adults.

Bad Girls is a kaleidoscopic fever dream of rapid-fire cuts, over-the-top violence, psychedelic drug orgies, raging punk metal screams, and dashes of existential angst.

Shadow in the Cloud would have been better with a little more pruning, a little less Max Landis, and some tonal consistency.

Promising Young Woman is a definite conversation-starter and the first thing you might say upon its conclusion is a breathless exclamation of, “Wow.”

Possessor is a masterfully realized visual treat that manages to unnerve and disturb without any consideration or concern for the audience’s comfort and well-being.

Wonder Woman 1984 is fun, splashy, and doesn’t lose sight of its characters and their emotional states even as it elevates the world-annihilation stakes.

Tenet is a headache disguised as a movie.

I’m Your Woman does for the gangster/crime genre what You Were Never Really Here did for the loner revenge thriller.

Let Run serve as a prime example of how you can take a simple story and create a lean, mean thriller that provides doses of satisfaction and triumph.