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The now-venerable Scream horror franchise has lived long enough to become the villain.

Posted Jan 12, 2022

2/5

The 355 (2022)

The international affectations feel like pantomime-final concessions that might come from one of the disappointing G8 summits where despite having all that power in one room, the best they can do is agree to meet again next year.

Posted Jan 6, 2022

4/5

Don't Look Up (2021)

Rosie Fletcher

Think of it like a massive Hollywood Christmas special where the top talent comes together to scream, "We're all going to f***ing die" at the top of their lungs. Amen to that.

Posted Dec 24, 2021

2.5/5

Being the Ricardos (2021)

I Love Lucy, but not here.

Posted Dec 21, 2021

3.5/5

The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

John Saavedra

This is no cynical corporate cash grab like so many other legacy sequels that have released in the decades since Neo first saved Zion.

Posted Dec 21, 2021

4/5

Nightmare Alley (2021)

It rewards patience and concentration with a rich, lavishly mounted psychological drama peopled by an exceptional cast.

Posted Dec 17, 2021

3/5

The King's Man (2021)

Believe it or not, the one crucial thing you need to understand about The King's Man is it has the most delightfully batshit fight scene you'll see at the cinema this year. And that, dear reader, is worth the price of admission.

Posted Dec 14, 2021

4/5

Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

No Way Home features Holland's best work as Peter and Spidey to date, with the film driving him toward emotional extremes he has never previously touched.

Posted Dec 14, 2021

4.5/5

No Sudden Move (2020)

No Sudden Move is pure, old-fashioned cinema art.

Posted Dec 6, 2021

The Velvet Underground (2021)

Captures both why Warhol was so taken by the band, and the reason the Velvet Underground were not made for factory settings.

Posted Dec 3, 2021

5/5

West Side Story (2021)

Spielberg again turns to the iconography from his country's past to comment on its present and future; America's most acclaimed director undaunted in his quest to become its most visible on-screen conscience.

Posted Dec 2, 2021

4/5

Licorice Pizza (2021)

The relationship may come across as simply too creepy. But if you've crushed on a person older than yourself who was still somehow in your orbit, you may buy into it.

Posted Nov 24, 2021

2.5/5

House of Gucci (2021)

It has the length of one of Scott's historical epics but the instincts of a Deuxmoi post looking to spill the juiciest tea. Well, by film's end everything's spilt, and it's still a bore.

Posted Nov 22, 2021

4/5

tick, tick...Boom! (2021)

It's a credit to Miranda as a first-time director that he transfers the material with such insight and elegance that the material feels at home in front of the camera, as if this is where it naturally belonged.

Posted Nov 20, 2021

1/5

Home Sweet Home Alone (2021)

This is something worse than a generic sitcom: it's content. At its most base and soulless. The kind which knows it will win every time bored families click "play" on their Disney+ homepage, so when's lunch?

Posted Nov 12, 2021

3.5/5

Red Notice (2021)

Michael Ahr

Its characters may be cookie-cutter, but the charisma of Johnson, Reynolds, and Gadot oozes off the screen...

Posted Nov 6, 2021

4/5

The Harder They Fall (2021)

If Westerns were ever to reclaim their place as cinema's favorite genre, it would be a movie like The Harder They Fall that would start the sea change.

Posted Nov 4, 2021

4/5

Spencer (2021)

Rosie Fletcher

The perceived blame of this antagonism falling squarely on Diana's shoulders can't help but be reminiscent of the column inches spent criticizing Stewart for not smiling, and the utter ownership hardcore fans felt they had at the height of Twilight.

Posted Nov 1, 2021

2/5

Antlers (2021)

Everyone is disappointed, depressed, and angry, which instantly sets Antlers on a course of being 90 minutes of misery porn. When the supernatural horror comes, it's almost a relief that at least something has changed.

Posted Oct 30, 2021

3.5/5

Army of Thieves (2021)

John Saavedra

Army of Thieves isn't just a showcase for Schweighöfer's talent as a charming comedic actor but also as a promising director.

Posted Oct 30, 2021

2.5/5

Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin (2021)

Characters choices in this film, like going spelunking in what's obviously a killin' hole, is akin to the cast of Jaws wondering what would happen if they did stick their heads down the shark's gullet.

Posted Oct 30, 2021

2.5/5

Hypnotic (2021)

Netflix original movies are like fast food; they're cheap and easy to make, they'll temporarily fill you up, have a passable taste that's familiar and unchallenging, but you'll either forget about the quick fix or regret it entirely.

Posted Oct 27, 2021

3.5/5

Eternals (2021)

Eternals itself is far from perfect, but it does indicate that the Marvel movie factory is not content to rest on its already massive bed of laurels.

Posted Oct 24, 2021

3.5/5

Night Teeth (2021)

Fry particularly shines. As cold and distant as she forces herself to be, the character is extremely likeable, and the actress brings subtle charisma throughout.

Posted Oct 20, 2021

4/5

The Last Duel (2021)

The title conflict is a gory, grueling, and ugly battle that reduces Carrouges and Le Gris to grunting, clawing savages.

Posted Oct 13, 2021

2/5

Halloween Kills (2021)

Rosie Fletcher

'Evil dies tonight' runs the mantra of the Haddonfield residents who are suddenly confronted with the same masked menace who terrified them 40 years ago. Yeah, but it doesn't though, does it?

Posted Oct 12, 2021

3.5/5

Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

The past is sweetly honored, including by a delicate handling of Ramis' passing, but for the first time in nearly 40 years, another generation can finally claim Ghostbusters as their own.

Posted Oct 9, 2021

4/5

Lamb (2021)

The most disturbing thing is how non-disturbing it ultimately becomes. This is a film which can be downright blissful in its domesticity.

Posted Oct 5, 2021

3/5

The Guilty (2021)

The Guilty's script doesn't have anything interesting to say beyond its melodrama. It's all character study but lacking proper context.

Posted Oct 1, 2021

2.5/5

The Addams Family 2 (2021)

Charles Addams should demand a DNA test.

Posted Oct 1, 2021

3.5/5

The French Dispatch (2021)

Even as a minor experience in the director's oeuvre,The French Dispatchis still a worthwhile one: a treat to discover in the mailbox for those already subscribing to Anderson's catalogue (myself included).

Posted Oct 1, 2021

2/5

Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)

Yes, Venom 2 is better than the first Venom, but then so are trips to the dentist.

Posted Sep 30, 2021

3.5/5

No Time To Die (2021)

While Bond's never been the most complex of onscreen characters, past attempts at fleshing him out in On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Craig's debut, Casino Royale, have been surpassed here.

Posted Sep 29, 2021

2/5

The Starling (2021)

We know that McCarthy, Melfi, and the others are all capable of doing better, but they got their wings clipped on this one.

Posted Sep 24, 2021

4/5

The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

Coen's compositions echo F.W. Murnau, Carl Dreyer, and other Expressionists, matching the artifice of the stage with cinema at its most beautifully artificial.

Posted Sep 24, 2021

4/5

Copshop (2021)

Copshop doesn't add anything to the genre but executes the style remarkably well.

Posted Sep 23, 2021

3/5

The Many Saints of Newark (2021)

The Many Saints of Newark is so tightly wedged into two hours, parts come across like a mid-season clip show.

Posted Sep 21, 2021

4/5

Nightbooks (2021)

Kayti Burt

The edges of this cinematic experience may be enough to give some children the kind of catharsis only the horror genre can offer.

Posted Sep 15, 2021

3.5/5

DASHCAM (2021)

To invite this kind of interior interrogation, and likely a vast array of reactions-especially when the bifurcated realm of social media discourse gets its hands on this-is a bold choice by bold storytellers. More, please.

Posted Sep 15, 2021

2.5/5

Cry Macho (2021)

It doesn't quite have the true grit it needs.

Posted Sep 15, 2021

2/5

Dear Evan Hansen (2021)

Like its lead character, the movie doesn't realize it's paying lip-service to trauma and the lonely for its own benefit, and the fact it is then so pleased with its cloying bromides makes this infinitely more uncomfortable to watch than CGI pussycats.

Posted Sep 13, 2021

2.5/5

The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021)

For an ostensibly serious movie standing before us with something to preach about God and the people who follow Him, it's surprising how thin its platitudes actually play.

Posted Sep 13, 2021

4/5

Last Night in Soho (2021)

Audrey Fox

The sequence where the three leads are dancing together, Taylor-Joy and McKenzie trading places with each turn of the camera to form one seamless motion, is the sort of cinematic candy that you could watch for hours.

Posted Sep 12, 2021

3.5/5

Malignant (2021)

Malignant is different and, up to a point, fast-moving enough to ride roughshod over some increasingly dumb script developments.

Posted Sep 10, 2021

4.5/5

Dune (2021)

The first good adaptation of Herbert's psychedelic (and frequently opaque) musings comes at a moment where visual grandeur is in desperate need of something weird and thoughtful. Well, Dune is very weird. Blissfully so.

Posted Sep 3, 2021

2.5/5

Reminiscence (2021)

For a movie about memory and its powerful hold on us, Reminiscence never finds a way to lodge itself in one's mind.

Posted Aug 27, 2021

2/5

Sweet Girl (2021)