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Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (1984) Lili Loofbourow This is truly a hero's journey: It's rich in symbolic gifts, ungrateful boys, sudden alliances, and animal feedings — and pleasantly unmarred by chatty cathys like Harrison Ford.
Posted Apr 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Nope (2022) Brendan Morrow With Nope, Peele himself creates a spectacle, entertaining us with stunning imagery and bloody violence that's worth going to the theater for.
Posted Jul 22, 2022  Edit critic review
Pleasure (2021) Mark Asch A workplace drama that almost could've taken place anywhere.
Posted May 16, 2022  Edit critic review
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) Brendan Morrow Some of its boldest choices don't fully work, but it's hard not to appreciate a Marvel blockbuster that strives to stir the pot and really lets Raimi be Raimi.
Posted May 06, 2022  Edit critic review
Petite Maman (2021) Andy Crump Petite Maman is as accessible as foreign arthouse movies get, and to sweeten the pot, it's a scant 70 minutes in length. The opportunity cost is low. The return on your time investment is stratospheric.
Posted Apr 22, 2022  Edit critic review
The Northman (2022) Jesse Hassenger That mix of detail-oriented realism and wild swings into mysticism and animalistic combat isn't just a budgetary flex; it lends The Northman a thematic gravity that keeps it from floating off into self-indulgent silliness.
Posted Apr 22, 2022  Edit critic review
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022) A.A. Dowd It's very clear, watching these movies, that they're adapted from a branded guidebook. They have all the dramatic interest and excitement of a manual.
Posted Apr 22, 2022  Edit critic review
Father Stu (2022) Jesse Hassenger It's still dogmatic, and dramatically inert as a result. But unlike the evangelical focus of movies like Heaven Is For Real, Miracles From Heaven, or Breakthrough, it's about the more explicitly codified traditions of Catholicism.
Posted Apr 15, 2022  Edit critic review
Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood (2022) Samuel Goldman Despite the absence of plot, Linklater's recreation of the period is beguiling.
Posted Apr 15, 2022  Edit critic review
The Contractor (2022) Jesse Hassenger Pine still has the charm and sensibility to be Hollywood's Best Chris. But first he needs to find Hollywood's Best Role for Chris Pine.
Posted Apr 09, 2022  Edit critic review
All the Old Knives (2022) Jesse Hassenger Despite generous dollops of sex and intrigue, however, glumness settles over the proceedings like a pall.
Posted Apr 09, 2022  Edit critic review
The Lost City (2022) Jesse Hassenger It's not a spectacular send-off, and Bullock will doubtless be back in the spotlight at some point. But whether it means to or not, The Lost City sends her lovelorn movie-star persona off into the sunset.
Posted Mar 25, 2022  Edit critic review
Turning Red (2022) Brendan Morrow A hilarious and energetic coming-of-age comedy which is refreshingly open about puberty, novel territory for Disney.
Posted Mar 11, 2022  Edit critic review
The Batman (2022) Brendan Morrow However bleak and disturbing the movie might be, The Batman's grittiness is in service of an unexpectedly optimistic message, and Reeves brings some much-needed glimmers of hope to this otherwise gloomy picture.
Posted Mar 04, 2022  Edit critic review
Kimi (2022) Vikram Murthi In Kimi, it's not just providing Zoë Kravitz with a showcase, but demonstrating how people can intervene when technology fails us.
Posted Feb 12, 2022  Edit critic review
Moonfall (2022) Jesse Hassenger This is a copy of a copy of an apocalypse -- and there were times where I nonetheless felt weirdly grateful to be experiencing it, in all of its dunderheaded glory.
Posted Feb 04, 2022  Edit critic review
Rifkin's Festival (2020) Jesse Hassenger It's hard to extract much resonance when the movie as a whole feels spectral and echoey, too -- dreamlike in the most pedestrian way possible.
Posted Jan 28, 2022  Edit critic review
Scream (2022) Brendan Morrow While the fifth round doesn't reach the heights of Craven's first, its incisive meta-commentary offers enough reason to have brought the franchise back from the dead once more.
Posted Jan 24, 2022  Edit critic review
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) Jeva Lange It's a Macbeth reliant instead on psychological darkness where longing and complacency are the real lurking spooks.
Posted Dec 28, 2021  Edit critic review
Licorice Pizza (2021) Jesse Hassenger Like Haim's music, the film pulses with youthful exuberance, including in its moments of longing. Their music videos are at their best when they play like vivid, expressive dreams. And with Licorice Pizza, Anderson keeps dreaming for as long as possible.
Posted Nov 29, 2021  Edit critic review
Eternals (2021) Jeva Lange Eternals is an uncharacteristically sloppy misfire.
Posted Nov 05, 2021  Edit critic review
The French Dispatch (2021) Jeva Lange I find that The French Dispatch is best appreciated like An Editor's Burial, as a collection of charming stories for the reader whose only interest is in that one all-important Andersonian question: What happens next?
Posted Oct 22, 2021  Edit critic review
Dune (2021) Jeva Lange Perhaps it's not that Dune is cursed -- it's that we haven't managed to take its caution against hero-worship to heart: Villeneuve should have realized idolizing Herbert's story would only lead him astray.
Posted Oct 14, 2021  Edit critic review
Lamb (2021) Jeva Lange There's no getting around it: Lamb is totally nuts. It seems destined to achieve a cult following.
Posted Oct 08, 2021  Edit critic review
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) Brendan Morrow An all-around excellent origin story, which features among the most exhilarating action in the Marvel series, continues the franchise's trend of showcasing much better villains than it used to, and builds to a surprisingly ambitious second half.
Posted Sep 03, 2021  Edit critic review
CODA (2021) Jeva Lange CODA isn't just authentic with its subjects in terms of their disability -- it's authentic with the treatment of their emotions, too.
Posted Aug 13, 2021  Edit critic review
The Suicide Squad (2021) Brendan Morrow James Gunn takes what was a frantically paced mess and turns it into an off-the-wall good time that leans into hilariously brutal violence but with a surprisingly moving emotional center.
Posted Aug 06, 2021  Edit critic review
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021) Jeva Lange Even if Roadrunner refrains from hagiography, never pulling back from the knotty puzzle of Bourdain, it also fails to fully grasp why the chef and storyteller meant so much to so many people.
Posted Jul 19, 2021  Edit critic review
Black Widow (2021) Jeva Lange Without needing to be the "first" of anything this time around, Black Widow became something else: the first superhero movie I've loved in years -- no "female" qualifier needed.
Posted Jul 08, 2021  Edit critic review
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021) Brendan Morrow While not a horror all-timer like its two predecessors, The Devil Made Me Do It comes recommended for fans of the series and especially for those invested in Ed and Lorraine Warren as characters.
Posted Jun 05, 2021  Edit critic review
In the Heights (2021) Jeva Lange If you have any doubt about the theatrical movie-going experience, In the Heights is the film to assuage it. It's big, it's beautiful, and it'll make you believe.
Posted May 21, 2021  Edit critic review
Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021) Brendan Morrow The retooling, though, feels disappointingly like a generic serial killer film that just happens to have a coat of Saw paint applied to it. It also serves as a reminder that truly memorable horror villains aren't so easily replaceable.
Posted May 15, 2021  Edit critic review
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) Brendan Morrow Mixing these movies does a disservice to both of them, leaving Godzilla vs. Kong without time to do enough with either. Combining franchises can be a joy when done right, but sometimes two monster movies aren't better than one.
Posted Apr 01, 2021  Edit critic review
Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) Jeva Lange Raya and the Last Dragon isn't great because it's a glittery story of female empowerment that shows young girls that they can grow up to be heroes, too. It's great simply because it never expected them to be anything else.
Posted Mar 06, 2021  Edit critic review
Cherry (2021) Jeva Lange Frenzied edits don't convey the characters' drug-addled agitation so much as they seem to expose directors who are never quite sure what they're doing with a shot.
Posted Feb 25, 2021  Edit critic review
Summertime (1955) Jeva Lange Anchored by Katharine Hepburn giving one of her all-time great performances as a lonely American yearning for a "wonderful, mystical, magical miracle" in Venice, it is a surprisingly perfect celebration of the seasons of love.
Posted Feb 17, 2021  Edit critic review
The Mauritanian (2021) Jeva Lange It would have been one thing for The Mauritanian to be a movie about legal rights, but the surreal torture sequence makes it something closer to protest art.
Posted Feb 17, 2021  Edit critic review
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) Jeva Lange Wonder Woman 1984 doesn't pander or condescend to its female audience members, and for that I applaud it. But it does something that, upon reflection, is perhaps even more unforgivable: it shows little interest in them at all.
Posted Dec 29, 2020  Edit critic review
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) Jeva Lange Watching Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is extraordinary, not just because it feels like a gift -- one last performance from Boseman, and his best yet -- but because it feels like a eulogy, too.
Posted Dec 18, 2020  Edit critic review
Mank (2020) Jeva Lange Mank, more than it has any loyalty to accuracy, functions as Fincher's reminder of the responsibility of the movies, and the funny way moving images have of superseding the truth.
Posted Dec 04, 2020  Edit critic review
Hillbilly Elegy (2020) Jesse Hassenger Both Close and Adams have already assured their respective legacies. Unfortunately, no one seems to have told Hillbilly Elegy this. It seems custom-designed to win one or both of them an Oscar, and makes everyone involved look worse in the process.
Posted Dec 02, 2020  Edit critic review
Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square (2020) Jeva Lange Even when Parton is playing a character whose one-dimensional goodness would make you groan and roll your eyes if another actress were playing the part, she seems to actually believe her own words.
Posted Nov 23, 2020  Edit critic review
Rebecca (2020) Jeva Lange It is so utterly an "airplane movie" in every respect that I almost recommend against watching it if you're on the ground... Wheatley's Rebecca is trashy and fun to look at, even if it might not stick with you beyond the tarmac.
Posted Oct 21, 2020  Edit critic review
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) Jeva Lange While The Trial of Chicago 7 got lucky with its release date, the film's relevance is owed to the endurance of the belief it's trying to tear down.
Posted Oct 19, 2020  Edit critic review
Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020) Jeva Lange As upsetting as the topic might be, there is profound joy, humor, and humanity in the exercise of Dick Johnson Is Dead.
Posted Oct 02, 2020  Edit critic review
Nomadland (2020) Jeva Lange Nomadland is a deeply internal and even mournful film in this regard, and asks its viewers to pause and reflect, like the listeners of a eulogy.
Posted Sep 29, 2020  Edit critic review
She Dies Tomorrow (2020) Jeva Lange Most of us are well acquainted with anxiety... If I had to explain to an enviably pacific alien what precisely this feels like, I'd show them Amy Seimetz's sophomore feature, She Dies Tomorrow.
Posted Aug 07, 2020  Edit critic review
The Rental (2020) Brendan Morrow It's a decent horror-thriller, but one that's a little undercooked and unfocused. It turns out to be more forgettable than anticipated, leading us to wonder about the truly great, more consistent film that could have been.
Posted Jul 24, 2020  Edit critic review
Greyhound (2020) Jeva Lange Just the latest example of a script that finds the sort of thrills in a near-past that were previously found in the near-future, confirming that it is the absence of technology that now scares us the most -- not what it might evolve into.
Posted Jul 10, 2020  Edit critic review
Relic (2020) Brendan Morrow James' debut... is a creepy, emotional haunted house feature that often takes a less-is-more approach. For the most part, it really pays off, and her confidence suggests audiences can expect more great work to come.
Posted Jul 10, 2020  Edit critic review
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