Recent Reviews

With its positive messages and peppy vibe, Sing 2 is a cure for the COVID blues.

As the MCU’s first formal feature foray into the multiverse, No Way Home is a strange — make that Strange — mash-up that is both entertaining and tedious.

This drunk history isn’t everybody’s cup of tea, but it is one wild ride.

Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story is the kind of exhilarating theatrical experience the best of filmmaking is all about.

Nightmare Alley is too gentrified to generate any bumps in the night.

Emotional resonance isn’t House of Gucci’s strong suit, but it’s fun watching fashion royalty fall apart at the seams.

Ghostbusters: Afterlife is ready to heal you.

Encanto — Disney’s 60th animated feature — is a trip worth taking, even though the final destination is a little ho-hum.

Eternals, the 26th theatrical release in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is a tantalizing concoction of big ideas, mixed messages and missed opportunities that succeeds despite the shortcomings.

Last Night in Soho is a wild trip in time and mind.

Edgar Wright is one of those rare directors who can take moviegoers on a journey in which they don’t really know where they’re being taken until they get there. And when they get there — with a concierge awaiting their arrival — it’s quite sensational.

The presentation is as hot as the Arrakis mid-day sun, but Dune’s story is still as cold as the desert night.

With its focus on the craft of writing and a huge (as in ginormous) ensemble cast, The French Dispatch is genuine Oscar bait.

Halloween Kills is an absolute trainwreck of a movie, but it’s a trainwreck by design.

It’s a major achievement for any movie to make an audience feel something — anything. But to come to the end of the line with Daniel Craig’s fifth and final outing as James Bond and feel rattled not by the action but by the emotional core of the storyline is quite a testament to the narrative strengths of the Craig installments.

In Gladiator, there’s the great line, “What we do in life echoes in eternity.” That thought is the foundation for The Last Duel’s greatest value: seeing how those events from centuries ago still echo through society today.