Recent Reviews

Operation Finale is based on an intense true story, but it could’ve been told with a little more passion.

This turkey’s all stuffing and no meat.

Alpha is one of the year’s biggest and best surprises.

The Meg’s another summer movie extravaganza that winds up dead in the water.

Like Winnie the Pooh’s favorite honey, Christopher Robin is a little sticky and a little sweet, and it’s certainly not served to everyone’s taste.

This is what great summer movies are all about.

It’s the best so far, and that’s possibly the biggest odds-defying accomplishment in this sixth installment in the Mission: Impossible series, which debuted on the big screen 22 years ago. Time flies when you’re busy saving the world.

Skyscraper could’ve been the greatest action movie parody ever made. Instead, it’s just stupid.

Ant-Man and the Wasp is as buzzy and harmless as a fly.

The best part of this romp is one of the smaller elements – and “smaller” in this case is not a reference to Ant-Man or the Wasp. What works best here is the relationship between Scott Lang (Paul Rudd, Our Idiot Brother) and his 10-year-old daughter, Cassie (Abby Ryder Fortson, Forever My Girl). Early on, Scott and Cassie are on a whimsical treasure hunt involving lots of cardboard and a huge dose of imagination.

Sicario: Day of the Soldado is both a summer movie potboiler and a heated conversation starter.

Jurassic World was a funhouse. Fallen Kingdom is a madhouse.

Tag isn’t nimble enough to touch its full potential.

Yeah. Tag is “inspired” by a true story, with its source material pulled from a 2013 Wall Street Journal article by Russell Adams (It Takes Planning, Caution to Avoid Being It, still available online behind a WSJ subscriber paywall). But plenty of liberties were taken while stretching out the newspaper story to fill 100 minutes of screen time. And that includes changing the journalist from Russell to Rebecca (Annabelle Wallis, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword).

It’s worth the wait.

Waiting 14 years for this follow-up is a double-edged sword for Pixar. On the plus side, there’s plenty of pent-up interest in seeing more of the Parr family and their friends. On the flip side, 14 years is a long time of compounding fondness for the original, introducing it to a couple generations worth of the planet’s newest citizens and setting already lofty expectations ablaze as to what a sequel should be like.

Hotel Artemis is a clever, subversive look at the flip side of action movies.

Ocean’s Eight smoothly cracks the code for sequelitis.

Solo isn’t top-shelf Star Wars, but it is an enjoyable ride.