Hollywood Reviews
JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH Review: Great Dinosaur Fun, Recaptured
Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey, and Rupert Friend star in director Gareth Edwards' monster thriller, scripted by David Koepp.
M3GAN 2.0 Review: Horror Gives Way to Campy Sci-Fi Action in This Enjoyable Sequel
What do you do when your indie sci-fi slasher about a killer robot becomes a surprise cult hit? You sign on for round two, or course. Director Gerard Johnstone brings back the singing, dancing best friend for life, cutesy AI...
POKER FACE S2, E10 Review: Pump It Up
Natasha Lyonne stars, with guest stars Cliff "Method Man" Smith, Jason Ritter, and Patti Harrison, directed by Clea DuVall.
SMOKE Review: Burning Down the House
Taron Egerton and Jurnee Smollett star in Dennis Lehane's crime drama series, premiering on Apple TV+.
John Carpenter's STARMAN Returns to Earth on 4K UHD
Our 4K roundup also includes new 4K UHDs of 'Jaws,' 'A Knight's Tale,' 'The Prosecutor,' and more.
F1: THE MOVIE Review: Brad Pitt's Star Vehicle Revs Up Hyperkinetic, Hyper-Stylized Action
A surface-deep, big-budget, star-driven summer release like Joseph Kosinski’s (Top Gun: Maverick, Oblivion, Tron: Legacy) latest effort, F1: The Movie (hereinafter “F1”), a Formula One racing drama, falls broadly into a modern-day version of film historian Tom Gunning's “cinema of...
ELIO Review: Pixar's Latest Stirs Heart and Senses in Equal Measure
For moviegoers of a certain vintage, Elio, Pixar’s latest addition to its stellar-level animated output, will feel comfortably, nostalgically familiar. Centering as it does on a starry-eyed preteen dreamer, Elio pays respectful homage to family-oriented 70s and 80s Amblin...
28 YEARS LATER Review: Boyle and Garland Reunite to Deliver Timely Post-Apocalyptic Horror
Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O'Connor, Alfie Williams, and Ralph Fiennes star.
SORCERER 4K Review: Friedkin's Fury Road
Roy Scheider goes crazy in the jungle in the 1977 epic that opened a week after 'Star Wars.'
ECHO VALLEY Review: Julianne Moore, Sydney Sweeney in Tense, Suspenseful Thriller
In the real world, fireworks usually signal celebration, but in director Michael Pearce’s (Encounter, Beast) latest film, Echo Valley, a dramatic thriller co-starring Oscar winner Julianne Moore (The Room Next Door, May December, When You Finish Saving the World) and...
WICK IS PAIN Review: Behind the Scenes in the Action Franchise
Jeffrey Doe's documentary asks: What makes the action franchise work?
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON Review: Live-Action Remake Fails to Justify Its Existence
When filmmaker Gus Van Zant (Milk, My Own Private Idaho, Drugstore Cowboy) remade Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Psycho, in 1998, critics somewhat justifiably dismissed the end result as a stunt, a prank, a jest, and not an affectionate homage to a...
THE LIFE OF CHUCK Review: Dance Like Everyone's Watching and Wants to Know How
Mike Flanagan Tackles a somewhat gentler Stephen King story.
MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS 4K Review
Directed and co-written by Paul Schrader (First Reformed, The Canyons, Cat People, American Gigolo), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, is out now from our friends at Criterion in a gorgeous 4K/Blu-ray combo release. The film is a departure of...
THE WIZ 4K Review: Looks Great Now, and Even More Deeply Weird
Diana Ross and Michael Jackson lead Sidney Lumet's deeply weird adaptation of the Broadway stage production on a sterling Criterion 4K disc.
Now Streaming: THE ACCOUNTANT 2 Doesn't Add Up, But No One Cares. NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH Goes to Sleep.
Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Jack Quaid star.
BALLERINA Review: All She Wants To Do Is Dance (But Her Shooting Skills Are Better)
Ana de Armas, Anjelica Huston, Gabriel Byrne, Lance Reddick, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Norman Reedus star, with Ian McShane, and Keanu Reeves.
PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS Review: Bloody, Terrific Tales of Action And Horror Nearly Undone by Overall Climax
A Viking clan-leader takes their son out for the ultimate Take Your Child to Work Day. Two brothers in feudal Japan are at odds on which one should have taken over leadership of the family when an even bigger party...
RESIDENT ALIEN S4 Review: High Quality Comfort Food
Alan Tudyk leads a sci-fi comedy series, which continues to introduce fresh wrinkles.
STICK S1 Review: Varying Degrees of Comic Amusement
Owen Wilson leads a sports comedy, debuting globally on Apple TV+.
