Movie Film Reviews

Prey isn't brilliant, but lands key elements. First, the script establishes distinct protagonists with defined arcs. Plus, the stakes are...

Bullet Train is amusing. The story is convoluted and shallow, but it owns that as part of the fun. Plus, characters are defined, there's...

Mr. & Mrs. Smith squanders a fun premise with a lacking script. Most noticeably, the setup rushes development for set pieces....

Pleasure is purposefully upsetting, its bluntness only matched by its importance. Pleasure punches viewers in the face with systemic...

Vengeance considers lofty ideas but doesn't quite solidify. Collective consciousness, cultural fragmentation, identity, and disconnection...

Man of Steel is a headache. Oddly, its script is both excessive and rushed. Its overindulgent intro drags with desensitizing action....

League of Super-Pets is complete commercialism, combining extremely popular and oversaturated genres, yet making no effort to...

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is a guilty pleasure. It's a shoehorned sequel, riding the original's recognizability. Its plot is shallow...

Casablanca is immaculately written. Superficially, it has natural arcs and a perfect bittersweet ending. Thematically, it tackles...

The Notebook is polarizing, yet fairly middling. Mainly, the love story is sufficient but generic. Gosling encourages McAdams'...

The Gray Man has reliable ingredients, but falls into many generic pitfalls. The characters are boring tropes, the story is cliche,...

Nope recontextualizes blockbusters by critiquing the monetization of trauma. Its protagonists hope to make money off their terrorizer,...

Us works as superficial horror, masking subtle depth. Its logistics are fairly nonsensical, but the concept is scary and ripe for...

Get Out uniquely mixes sci-fi, horror, and social commentary. Its script packs important metaphors into a gripping story, nimbly...

The Sea Beast is pleasant. It has generic themes and a predictable plot, but its characters have enough heart to make viewers care. No...

Hotel Transylvania: Transformania is for semi-distracted children. It has virtues, but not in its writing. The story centers around a...

Watcher is a psychological slow burn with a pressing message. Its story follows a woman who suspects she's being stalked and struggles to...

Where the Crawdads Sing feigns sincerity but is mostly cliche. Characters are flat, themes are thin, and developments are obvious....

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie is a feature-length commercial. The script barely musters a story: a generic villain wants world...

Lady Bird is thoughtful nostalgia. Incredibly vulnerable, it expands on coming-of-age stories by contemplating the relationship between...