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If you’ve lately been feeling that the “Jurassic Park” franchise has jumped an even more ancient creature — the shark — hold off any thoughts of extinction. Judging from ...
July 05, 2025 Reviews
Say what you will about the Idris Elba-John Cena vehicle “Heads of State,” but it’s surely the first buddy comedy about the fraying bonds of NATO. The potential collapse...
July 05, 2025 Reviews
If you want to know how big an upgrade the “M3GAN” sequel has on the original, look no further than the very first scene. “M3GAN” was mostly set in a Seattle house, but “...
June 28, 2025 Reviews
The wide-screen spectacle of Formula One gets a gleaming, rip-roaring workout in Joseph Kosinski’s “F1,” a fine-tuned machine of a movie that, in its most riveting racing...
June 28, 2025 Reviews
Most movies are lucky to predict one thing. Danny Boyle’s 2002 dystopian thriller “28 Days Later” managed to be on the cutting edge of two trends, albeit rather disparate...
June 21, 2025 Reviews
Elio is a lonely 11-year-old just looking for big answers about life. He’s recently lost his parents, the only people who understood him and wanted him, and the one thing...
June 21, 2025 Reviews
Ever wanted to soar through the skies on the back of a friendly dragon? The new “How to Train Your Dragon” may be the ticket, from a decidedly safer, though possibly stil...
June 14, 2025 Reviews
The problem with so many rom-coms — one of the problems, anyway — is how often we’re asked to conveniently dismiss our knowledge of life’s realities. Particularly economi...
June 14, 2025 Reviews
“They say you murdered my mother,” the young would-be nun tells the shady tycoon. “I feel the need to address this.” There’s something about the deadpan delivery and the...
June 07, 2025 Reviews
Watch a bunch of John Wick movies all in a row, and you can get pretty paranoid. You start to think everyone’s an assassin. The guy at the newsstand, the street musician...
June 07, 2025 Reviews
Mr. Miyagi was known for waxing poetic. So the fact that “Karate Kid: Legends” has nothing to say is all the more disappointing. One of the most interesting aspects of t...
May 31, 2025 Reviews
Beware the quirky foster mother who introduces herself as a bit of a weirdo. That’s how Laura (Sally Hawkins) cheerily greets the newly orphaned teenage siblings Andy and...
May 31, 2025 Reviews
Megan Greenwell was the editor-in-chief of Deadspin when it was acquired in 2019 by a Boston-based private equity firm. After three months of watching her new bosses make...
May 24, 2025 Reviews
Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt is getting a bit of a god complex. It’s not exactly his fault after defying death and completing impossible missions time and time again. But ...
May 24, 2025 Reviews
The six-legged alien Stitch from “Lilo & Stitch” doesn't choose to be bad. He's just genetically programed that way. Kind of like the way Disney is apparently programmed ...
May 24, 2025 Reviews
The new Vince Vaughn movie “Nonnas” aspires to be a bit of cinematic comfort food. It’s based on a heartwarming true story, features a lot of shots of simmering Sunday sa...
May 17, 2025 Reviews
A blender. A lawn mower. A ceiling fan. A garden rake. A vending machine. An MRI scanner. These mundane items are supposed to ease us through life, helping us eat, clean,...
May 17, 2025 Reviews
As they so often do in Marvel Land, worlds collide in “Thunderbolts.” But in this refreshingly earthbound iteration of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the collision isn’t...
May 03, 2025 Reviews
For a long, sun-addled stretch, Lorcan Finnegan’s beach-set “The Surfer” simmers as a deliciously punishing nightmare, driving Nicolas Cage into his most natural state: a...
May 03, 2025 Reviews
“The Legend of Ochi,” a scrappy and darkly whimsical fable about a misunderstood teenage girl on a dangerous quest, has the feeling of a film you might have stumbled on a...
April 26, 2025 Reviews
Hordes of horror films line up for Halloween and a sleigh full of Christmas movies arrive annually in December, but there is slightly less competition around the paper-pu...
April 26, 2025 Reviews
Two gay couples decide to embark on one fake straight marriage to get what they need in Andrew Ahn’s modern update of “The Wedding Banquet.” Min (Han Gi-Chan), a young ar...
April 19, 2025 Reviews
It’s gotta be something in the water. How else to explain the plethora of A-list twins on Hollywood screens lately? In the last few months alone, we’ve had Robert Pattins...
April 19, 2025 Reviews
Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland’s “Warfare” is more defined by what it isn't than what it is. In their Iraq War-set film, there’s never any description of a wider strategy. ...
April 12, 2025 Reviews
Before Jack Ryan was introduced into the culture, Robert Littell imagined Charlie Heller, a quiet, CIA cryptographer who goes rogue on a quest for vengeance after his lov...
April 12, 2025 Reviews
Having it all means different things to everyone, but a rent-controlled apartment in Manhattan is probably pretty close to a universal dream — even for non-New Yorkers. I...
April 05, 2025 Reviews
The latest IP to be mined into a Hollywood blockbuster is appropriately a video game that celebrates digging: “A Minecraft Movie.” Like “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” and...
April 05, 2025 Reviews
Jason Statham is cosplaying a construction laborer when “A Working Man” begins. He’s making sure the rebar is spaced correctly and the concrete is correctly mixed. Bu...
March 29, 2025 Reviews
It’s never a bad time for a film like “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” but at the moment it feels like a much-needed balm. Modest in scope and made with the lightest of tou...
March 29, 2025 Reviews
“You’re the actor!” shouts Anna Genovese at her estranged spouse, gangster Vito Genovese, in a courtroom where he’s implausibly claiming he lacks funds to support her. “T...
March 22, 2025 Reviews
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