24 reviews in this category.
Paul Thomas Anderson makes movies for people who love movies. That has always been true. And One Battle After Another might be his most entertaining work, period.…...
This review discusses the full plot including the ending....
Spoiler context: Warfare is a real-time depiction of real events. The real Elliott Miller, to whom the film is dedicated, lost his leg and his ability to speak as a result of the events depicted. This is not entertainment in the conventional sense.…...
Spoiler warning: the twist at the end of the second act is worth preserving. If you plan to see Novocaine unspoiled, read only the first three paragraphs....
Dan Trachtenberg clearly loves the Predator franchise. That much is obvious from three films in three years.…...
Ridley Scott made Gladiator II because he wanted to make another Gladiator. That's essentially the whole story behind the sequel, and it explains both its strengths and its limits.…...
Twisters is the summer blockbuster that 2024 needed most: a disaster movie that trusts its audience to enjoy tornadoes without being lectured about the policies that supposedly created them.…...
The Penguin is the best argument that prestige superhero television doesn't have to be ideologically captured to be excellent.…...
Deadpool & Wolverine is exactly what it advertises itself as: an audacious, frequently profane, nostalgically loaded buddy film that smashes two beloved superhero personas together and dares the audience not to have fun.…...
The Fall Guy is one of the most genuinely enjoyable action movies in recent memory, and it achieves that by doing something remarkably simple: it actually likes its protagonist....
Bad Boys: Ride or Die is a franchise that knows exactly what it is and has stopped pretending otherwise.…...
Thelma is based on something that actually happened to director Josh Margolin's grandmother. A scammer called her, pretending to be Josh, and told her he had been arrested. She sent $10,000 to an address he gave her. She was 93.…...
Alex Garland spent years watching political tribalism eat the American conversation, and his response was to make a movie that would give everyone something to hate and something to love.…...
Dev Patel spent seven years developing Monkey Man, got a broken nose, multiple injuries, and a Netflix deal that then collapsed. Then Jordan Peele watched the film and made sure it got into theaters.…...
Guy Ritchie has spent thirty years making films about men who are very good at dangerous things, and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is the logical culmination of that career.…...
This preview is based on available trailers, creative team history, and pre-release information. Scores and verdict reflect our prediction only and will be updated upon release....
Three seasons in, The Night Agent remains one of Netflix's most conservative-friendly prestige productions — and Season 3 makes no apologies for it.…...
There is a line of conservative cinema that barely announces itself: the masculine protector story, dressed in action-genre clothes, that has always been one of Hollywood's most durable formulas.…...
⚠️ SPOILER ALERT: This review contains detailed plot analysis and reveals key story elements....
Hollywood doesn't often make movies that tell you to put down your phone — and mean it.…...
Here is what you need to know about Sound of Freedom before anything else: studios sat on this film for five years. Fox (which became Disney after the acquisition) shelved it. Not because it was bad — test screenings were strong.…...
Captain America: Brave New World is a Frankenstein's monster of a movie, stitched together from at least three different scripts, multiple rounds of reshoots, and the remnants of a 2008 plotline nobody was asking to resolve.…...
Thunderbolts asks you to care about six characters you either forgot existed or could not name at gunpoint. The question is whether it delivers a story worth telling. The answer, with significant reservations, is: sort of....
Independence Day is built on a traditional moral structure centered on individual courage, earned leadership, and collective survival through merit and sacrifice.…...
