Movie Reviews

Boots Riley returns with a bold, messy comedy that targets branding, labor exploitation and the cult of fashion

Samara Weaving delivers electricity and anguish, yet Ready or Not 2 rarely finds fresh ground beyond its blood-soaked callbacks

A thoughtful take on Joe Swanberg’s Alaska-set romantic drama that spotlights Dakota Fanning and a tangled triangle of desire and compromise

Joe Swanberg stages an Alaska-set love triangle that sparkles and stalls, anchored by Dakota Fanning and Jake Johnson

Grace returns in a blood-soaked sequel that trades the manor’s intimacy for a globe-spanning council, louder kills and corrosive humor

A creative look at how Pixar’s Hoppers uses a dual perspective device inspired by Studio Ghibli’s Pom Poko to tell an ecological, family-friendly story

Explore how george clooney and shailene woodley anchor the descendants with subtle, career-shaping performances in a film that earned major awards and enduring respect

A brisk, old-school action movie led by Alan Ritchson, War Machine mixes familiar sci-fi tropes with a clear protagonist arc and practical location work

A concise walkthrough of the Child’s Play films that explains each entry’s tone, continuity, and why the series keeps returning

A lively Quebecois comedy follows two neighbors who confront the doldrums of parenthood and rediscover pleasure together

Neve Campbell’s Sidney Prescott confronts a new Ghostface who employs AI deepfakes, while friends and foes from the franchise re-emerge

A dual-feature piece that reorders Evans’ best Captain America turns and summarizes Dan Trachtenberg’s plans to keep expanding the Predator universe

Steven Soderbergh returns with The Christophers, a talky art-world dramedy starring Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel, arriving in theaters on April 10

A compact, probing film by Hong Sangsoo that uses interviews and rehearsal to examine creativity and authenticity in performance

A fresh look at Robert Wise’s The Andromeda Strain and why its clinical approach to a deadly extraterrestrial pathogen still matters

Roger Ebert’s one-star verdict on Leonard Nimoy’s 1988 film The Good Mother exposed a movie that aimed for social provocation but stumbled in execution, especially around a controversial plot point involving Diane Keaton and Liam Neeson.

A spirited rewatch of Men with Brooms (2002) that connects Paul Gross’s small-town curling comedy to the intense ethics and spectacle of the 2026 Winter Olympics

A grieving mother travels alternate realities in Redux Redux to kill her daughter’s murderer and ultimately learns that connection can break cycles of vengeance

A haunting indigenous western that follows two fugitive siblings, a conflicted older ally and a distant mother as they navigate exploitation, mining and survival in central Australia

Jason Statham’s lighthearted spy caper Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre underperformed in theaters but is gaining traction on Prime Video, showcasing a playful side of Statham and strong support from an international cast

An entertaining lead and a sly premise drive John Patton Ford’s film, but the movie rarely follows through on promises of dark comedy or biting social commentary

Yuen Woo-ping stages a return to hands-on martial arts cinema with Blades of the Guardians, blending on-location shooting, old-school wirework and an ensemble led by Jet Li and Wu Jing

A quiet coming-of-age drama, Mouse follows Minnie as she rebuilds identity and relationships after losing her closest friend; directed by Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson and premiered at Berlinale

A measured comeback for Lance Hammer, Queen at Sea stages a difficult conversation about consent, autonomy, and care through commanding performances by Tom Courtenay and Juliette Binoche

Ethan Hawke disappears into the role of Lorenz Hart in Richard Linklater’s intimate, melancholic Blue Moon, a film that blends historical fact and fiction around the opening night of Oklahoma! and is now streaming on Netflix