Reviews

One of the most endearing things about Vin Diesel is his apparent ongoing belief that his salad days aren’t behind him yet. In the early 2000s, he was on top...

Tom King and Mitch Gerads, the team that brought you DC Comics’ sublime Mister Miracle series, is back — and they’ve brought one more team member with them this time....

Alex Garland seems fascinated by the extremes of love and guilt. His intellectual science-fiction films, including Annihilation, Ex Machina, and 28 Days Later, have earned him a strong reputation for...

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, John Carpenter’s cheeks should be flushing a shade of “aw shucks” red right around now. Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’ new...

Why was My Hero Academia: Heroes: Rising, the second film of the popular school-life, superhero anime series, told as a film rather than a television episode, a manga arc, a...

Netflix’s new graphic novel adaptation I Am Not Okay With This is about a girl with super powers, but not about a girl with superpowers saving the world. That’s rare...

It’s often said that clearly showing the monster in a horror movie makes it less frightening, because the audience’s imagination will conjure up something scarier than whatever can be shown...

Punctuation in a movie’s title can seem natural (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Face/Off) or a little forced (Mother!, Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise...

The title of the new horror dud Brahms: The Boy II raises some questions the film can’t answer. It flouts all conventions of sequel-naming, appending serious-business Roman numerals to the...

The anticipation for Pixar’s new animated fantasy Onward has been recklessly high. The rambunctious trailers have been promising, but the company’s history is more of a telling factor. Back in...