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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
6/10
Jackass Forever (2022)
I can't speak to the earlier 'Jackass' shows or movies, but this implicit "legacy sequel" has running through it a strain of sincerity and a skewed wholesome sensibility.
Posted Feb 2, 2022
2
6/10
Scream (2022)
It's both a sharp commentary on nostalgic legacy sequels and, by default, a glorified rehash that can't help but repeat their mistakes. Still, it's bloody good fun.
Posted Jan 12, 2022
3
4/10
The 355 (2022)
4
7/10
A Journal for Jordan (2021)
Denzel Washington delivers another strong adult-skewing drama about the American Black experience that only exists because he wanted to make it.
Posted Dec 25, 2021
5
6/10
Sing 2 (2021)
Illumination's latest jukebox musical is as strong of a film as they've made and a fine example of their "life-scaled adult melodrama and kid-friendly musical comedy" formula.
Posted Dec 21, 2021
6
6/10
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
7
6/10
The King's Man (2021)
'The King's Man' feels like Matthew Vaughn very much wanting to tell a World War I-set action spy drama and using the established brand as a commercial justification.
Posted Dec 14, 2021
8
6/10
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Enjoyable and often funny, 'No Way Home' struggles to balance being a straight-forward sequel to 'Far from Home' and a full-on MCU event flick.
Posted Dec 13, 2021
9
7/10
West Side Story (2021)
Steven Spielberg finally gets to make a musical and (mostly) knocks it out of the park.
Posted Dec 6, 2021
10
11
5/10
House of Gucci (2021)
12
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
It's a great movie in its own right, and honestly it has better pacing than the original.
Posted Nov 22, 2021
13
8/10
Encanto (2021)
Disney's 60th animated feature refreshingly goes against the grain for a small-scale psychological mystery which, mostly mediocre songs aside, provides an emotional knock-out.
Posted Nov 22, 2021
14
8/10
King Richard (2021)
Strong performances and nuanced characterizations make this polished old-school Hollywood crowd-pleaser more than just a hagiography.
Posted Nov 19, 2021
15
Eternals (2021)
16
3/10
Red Notice (2021)
RED NOTICE is an expensive but lifeless approximation of a Hollywood blockbuster banking on viewers trading quality for convenience.
Posted Nov 4, 2021
17
Dune (2021)
Dune is a visual feast and a space opera tour de force that should please fans of the novel despite some small changes and its missing final act.
Posted Oct 25, 2021
18
4/10
Eternals (2021)
'Eternals' shows Marvel making the same mistakes (generic superhero characters, dull effects-driven action, making the entire film a prologue for the sequel, etc.) as its rivals.
Posted Oct 24, 2021
19
Dune (2021)
20
8/10
The Last Duel (2021)
21
6/10
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
An increasing reliance on pandering nostalgic fan service very nearly derails what otherwise exists as a charming and witty kid-centric coming-of-age fantasy.
Posted Oct 9, 2021
22
5/10
Halloween Kills (2021)
23
6/10
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
It's almost too short, with too little interaction between Venom and the supporting cast, but it delivers plenty of campy violence and metaphorical Hardy & Hardy rom-com hijinks.
Posted Sep 30, 2021
24
5/10
No Time To Die (2021)
'No Time To Die' is pretty good when it's focused on just being "the next James Bond movie," but it stumbles in the back half as a direct sequel to 'Spectre.'
Posted Sep 28, 2021
25
7/10
Dear Evan Hansen (2021)
Good is not the enemy of perfect, and 'Dear Evan Hansen' is a good, empathetic, nuanced musical passion play with spectacular performances from a stacked supporting cast.
Posted Sep 20, 2021
26
7/10
Malignant (2021)
James Wan's bonkers big-swing "one for me" original is one of the best "mostly hidden from critics" horror movies this side of 'Psycho.'
Posted Sep 10, 2021
27
Worth (2021)
28
All told, Nightmare of the Wolf is a welcome addition to the books, shows and video games in the ever-expanding Witcher universe.
Posted Aug 31, 2021
29
4/10
Candyman (2021)
30
8/10
31
7/10
Reminiscence (2021)
This engrossing and compelling sci-fi detective yarn will make you nostalgic for when merely being a pretty good, star-driven, adult-skewing sci-fi original was enough to be a hit.
Posted Aug 18, 2021
32
7/10
Free Guy (2021)
Another example of how many of the best video game movies aren't based on video games.
Posted Aug 9, 2021
33
The Suicide Squad (2021)
[A] glorious gun-blazing tour de farce of impressively immense scope & unrestrained storytelling, from a brilliant filmmaker operating at the top of his game.
Posted Aug 9, 2021
34
6/10
The Suicide Squad (2021)
The whole of James Gunn's zany and violent 'The Suicide Squad' is less than the sum of its parts, but many of those parts are pretty damn great.
Posted Jul 28, 2021
35
4/10
Jungle Cruise (2021)
Timid and neutered, it works so hard trying to remind you of 'Pirates of the Caribbean,' 'Romancing the Stone' and 'The Mummy' that it never affirms its own identity.
Posted Jul 27, 2021
36
7/10
The Green Knight (2021)
37
6/10
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (2021)
A decent story with sharper-than-expected character work is almost fatally marred by terrific action beats edited to the point of incomprehensibility.
Posted Jul 22, 2021
38
6/10
Old (2021)
M. Night Shyamalan's 'Old' is a good-n-nasty little supernatural chiller from a marquee filmmaker at peace with his artistic legacy with nothing left to prove.
Posted Jul 22, 2021
39
Die in a Gunfight (2021)
40
6/10
I can nitpick the first and last reels, but that middle hour, which is what you came to see anyway, absolutely rocks.
Posted Jul 15, 2021
41
3/10
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
42
Fear Street Part One: 1994 (2021)
Far from a subversion of the genre or a fun homage to 90s' horror, Fear Street: 1994 is derivative, shallow and painfully generic, playing it safe at almost every turn.
Posted Jul 7, 2021
43
Black Widow (2021)
Black Widow mixes great action with a tedious script, predictable plot and overly long runtime. The results are mixed.
Posted Jul 2, 2021
44
7/10
The Tomorrow War (2021)
45
4/10
Black Widow (2021)
46
7/10
Luca (2021)
'Luca' is a small-scale and charming kid-friendly adventure from a time before Pixar films were expected to be monumental deconstructions of life's biggest questions.
Posted Jun 16, 2021
47
3/10
Infinite (2021)
Another "was supposed to be in multiplexes" streaming premiere that's so bad it qualifies as a mitzvah to movie theaters.
Posted Jun 10, 2021
48
3/10
It's an accidental sequel that forgets its a sequel, repeating the same narrative beats and retroactively dumbing down its characters.
Posted Jun 9, 2021
49
6/10
Spirit Untamed (2021)
50
Army Of The Dead (2021)